Owner`s manual

7.2 Switching to Auto-Flex

Important: Before proceeding with Auto-Flexion, read Section 3.6 on ‘Basic

Flexion (Balancing the Patient)’.

It is very important that you become familiar with how to balance your patient

BEFORE USING the Auto-Flex feature. THE PATIENT MUST BE SUPERVISED AT ALL

TIMES DURING OPERATION.

1. Balance your patient by following steps 1 - 4 under section 3.6 “Basic

Flexion”. Patient should start in a slightly flexed position.

2. To begin using the Auto-Flexion Touch

Screen, press the “FLEX” button

(Photo 21) on the main control panel.

The touch screen should already be

lit. By default, the touchscreen displays

the settings from the last treatment.

At start up, the touchscreen displays

the Auto-Distraction screen (if so

equipped). Press the “Dist/Flex” button

to switch to the Auto-Flexion display.

3. Set each of your touchscreen settings

by touching each button in turn

(buttons will turn blue when selected)

and adjusting the slider for the de-

sired setting.

Note: Adjusting the slider works best

with the back of your finger or by sim-

ply tapping the slide bar at the desired point on the slide bar.

4. With settings selected, press “RUN” to start the treatment and move the

flexion locking handle to the 1 o’clock position to engage the motor (Photo

22 - see note below). You will feel the handle move a cam into a lock position.

Note: Once the RUN Button is pressed, the operator has 30 seconds to engage the

Auto-Flex motor by turning the flexion lock handle to the 1 o’clock position (photo 22).

If not engaged within that time, the motor will shut off.

6. Press the yellow “PAUSE” button at any time to pause the treatment or to

adjust your settings. Press PAUSE again to restart the treatment.

7. When the cycle time ends, the table will return to the rest/horizontal

position. Before the patient exits the table, be sure the flexion, rotation

and lateral lock handles are all turned to the 6 o’clock/locked position.

Note: When using distraction with Auto-Flex, flexion may not need to be as

deep. Making a note of your settings for each patient makes it easy to dupli-

cate treatment on subsequent visits.

photo 21

photo 22