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Preface
Thank you for selecting the CHARLY Abdominal Leaning Support. Our engineers have designed the high-quality
CHARLY to make your life safer and easier, and we’ve included this manual to help you use and care for this
durable Otto Bock product.
Please read the following instructions to make sure you use this product safely and for its recommended use. If you
have any further questions, or if you have any problems, please contact your specialist dealer. We hope that the
CHARLY meets your expectations and helps to improve your quality of life.
Indications
(Source: Catalogue of aids and list of aids for the health insurance funds, FRG)
The CHARLY abdominal leaning support is a combined standing aid and tilting couch.
Standing aids of this kind enable patients suffering from congenital or acquired restrictions, or loss of the controlled
ability to stand, to remain in a vertical posture for longer periods than may otherwise be achieved by raising
patients briefly to a standing position.
The object of providing patients with such standing aids is to facilitate the adoption of a vertical or almost vertical
(inclined) posture. Such standing aids are used either in preparation for teaching the patient to walk or to enable
paralytics to benefit therapeutically from standing. The benefits are improved circulation, stimulating bone metabolism,
a prophylactic measure against contracture, bedsores and thrombosis, to promote kidney function/urine discharge
and to inhibit spasticity.
Dependent upon the degree of the limitations, standing aids are indicated for:
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complete or partial paralysis of the legs (paraplegia)
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complete or partial paralysis of the legs and the torso (damage to the spinal cord below segment C8)
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complete or partial paralysis of the legs, the torso and the arms (tetraplegia)
resulting from for example:
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transverse lesion of the spinal cord
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cerebral palsy
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poliomyelitis
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multiple sclerosis
Abdominal leaning supports are used also to stabilize the torso and legs. They facilitate arm function and control of
the head and help to extend the otherwise greatly restricted field of view. They are angle-adjustable from horizontal
to vertical and are also suitable for therapeutic purposes and for the food intake (feeding).
Declaration of conformity
The manufacturer, Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH, declares that this product is in conformity with the requirements
of Directive 93 / 42 / EEC.
Set-up and use of the basic model
References to graphics and items in the illustration section are to be read as follows: (1/A) = Fig. No. 1 / Item A
Unpacking and setup
The original package contains the following components:
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Abdominal leaning support
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Sub-frame for abdominal leaning support
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Accessories as ordered
The abdominal leaning support must be pre-assembled by a specialist and delivered to you with instructions for its
use. However, some notes on the assembly are listed here for the specialist.
After carefully removing the packaging material:
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Install the main support on the sub-frame (3/A).
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Install the casters, if supplied separately.
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Slide the kneepads and footrests onto the lever arms (5/C) and secure.
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Slide chest pad I onto the slide bars of chest pad II and secure with the wing nuts (2/F).
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Insert the slide bar with the chest pads into the openings in the thorax pad and secure with the wing nuts (4/A).
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Install accessories.
