Saunders Cervical Traction - Hand Pump Operation

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Hand Pump Operation
Once you are secure and comfortable in your Saunders Cervical
Traction device, you will apply traction by pumping air into a cylinder
using a hand pump (Figure 3.)
Figure 2. Using the Saunders
Cervical Traction device
A) Close-up of gauge
housing.
B) Both in and out
motions of the
pump fill the
cylinder with air.
Figure 3. Hand pump operation.
comfortably on the head pad (See Figure 2.) The neck wedges
should contact your neck midway between the tips of your earlobes
and the top of your shoulders.
2. Turn either of the adjustment knobs until the wedges have
moved firmly against both sides of the neck.
3. As you settle into the Saunders Cervical Traction device, the
neck wedges may slightly rotate and self-adjust to the contour of
your head and neck, or you can rotate the wedges manually as
needed for the most comfortable fit.
4. Secure the head strap over your forehead, just above the browline.
This strap should fit snugly.
5. Apply traction using the pump as described in the next section.