S.W.A.S.H. type hip replacement device TU 32.50.22-002-55033216-2022, Item No.: ATSTS 3305.

The Swosch hip joint apparatus consists of shin sleeves and rigid half-corset sleeves connected by a bearing element - hinge assembly with splints. Straps are used to fix the product on the patient's body.
S.W.A.S.H. is an external device for the treatment of cerebral palsy. Patients with cerebral palsy have an increased tone of the hip adductor muscles. The tone causes internal rotation of the thigh and lower leg, flexion of the knee joint, pronation of the foot, and forward tilt of the torso. The apparatus levelling the pathological attitudes that occur in cerebral palsy. The joints of the device repeat the movements of the hip joint in the sagittal plane. The amplitude of the hip movement is adjusted when the device is adjusted on the patient. The main effect is that the device eliminates hypertonus of the driving muscles of the thigh, so that it becomes possible to withdraw the hips, straightening of the torso, extensions in the knee joints.