Clamping your knee kit to a tabletop

To perform manual muscle simulations with your knee kit, it's easier to secure your kit to a surface like a tabletop. This will free up your hands to be able to attach and pull the manual muscle cords.

1. Start by setting the bracket along an edge or at a corner of your tabletop. The slot cutout in the semicircular portion of the bracket should be facing away from the edge of the table, as shown in the image below.

   Image to add: Bracket sitting on table edge

   
   
   
2. Next, use the first clamp to secure one side of the bracket to your tabletop, angling the clamp as much as possible to the side so as not to block the motion of the knee. If you have shims or some other under-clamp material, hold this in place under tabletop between the clamp and tabletop until the clamp is tightened.

   Image to add: First clamp holding side of bracket onto tabletop with shims, angled as far out as possible

   
   
   
3. Use the second clamp to secure the other side of the bracket, again angling the clamp as much to the side as possible and ensuring that any under-clamp material is between the clamp and tabletop.

   Image to add: Second clamp holding side of bracket to the tabletop with shims

   
   
   
4. Slide the superior cross section plate (the one attached to the femur) into the bracket, oriented so that the knee is hanging out over the side of the table (the foot of the cross section plate should slide into the corresponding slot on the bracket).

   Image to add: CS plate with knee kit inserted into bracket clamped onto table