Exercise devices – Support for entire body of user – Suspension device
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-17
2010-02-23
Baker, Lori (Department: 3764)
Exercise devices
Support for entire body of user
Suspension device
C482S023000, C482S121000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07666126
ABSTRACT:
A balancing device to assist a patient in exercising and rehabilitating balance. The balancing device includes a stationary support structure including an overhead support and a plurality of upright supports, and a suspended platform hanging from the overhead support by first and second suspending members. The platform is stabilized by at least two elastic supports having a first end attached proximate a portion of the periphery of the platform on opposite sides of the bisecting pivot line, and a second end attached to one of the plurality of upright supports. The patients standing on the platform can practice balancing and adjustments in a pivoting motion, and/or in ether a longitudinal and/or lateral direction.
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Shuttle Balance,Shuttle Systemsby Contemporary Design Company, www. shuttlesystems.com, (available to public prior to Jun. 17, 2007), 2 pages.
Baker Lori
Hasse & Nesbitt LLC
Nesbitt Daniel F.
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