21 CFR § 890.5765 - Pressure-applying device.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s890.5765"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "21 CFR § 890.5765 - Pressure-applying device."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "890.5765"
section_name: "Pressure-applying device."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "MEDICAL DEVICES"
part_number: "890"
part_name: "PHYSICAL MEDICINE DEVICES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 371."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 53047, Nov. 23, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "890"
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# 890.5765 Pressure-applying device.
(a) *Identification.* A pressure-applying device is a device intended for medical purposes to apply continuous pressure to the paravertebral tissues for muscular relaxation and neuro-inhibition. It consists of a table with an adjustable overhead weight that, in place of the therapist's hands, presses on the back of a prone patient.
(b) *Classification.* Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in § 890.9.
[48 FR 53047, Nov. 23, 1983, as amended at 59 FR 63015, Dec. 7, 1994; 66 FR 38818, July 25, 2001]