Undertaking
Patent
1980-09-29
1983-02-08
Pinkham, Richard C.
Undertaking
128 75, A63B 2302, A61H 102
Patent
active
043725520
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a hang stand for use by a person who wishes to unload his back and open the spaces for the discs of the backbone.
Injuries to the back are frequently occuring among people in the whole world. With so-called lumbago with sharp pains in the loin back and spasmodic contraction of the back-musculature the causes thereof may be of several kinds, for instance alterations in the joints of the vertebral column or backbone and overstrain of the back-musculature.
The measures for restoring the backbone to the right position, and for bringing the musculature to work again in the right manner, may vary, as for instance physiotherapy, massage, stretch bench, etc. and direct manipulation, which is often carried out by chiropractors or the like. It has, however, appeared that in many cases of injuries to the back the so-called discs which are located between the vertebra members, have a determining influence regarding the pain incurred as well as the best manner in which the healing can be done.
In most cases, back pains, with subsequent lumbago, as described above, are due to the discs having been exposed to wrong and/or too great a load, in which cases they--in spite of the fact that they consist of cartilage and have a certain mobility--also can be compressed, so that the liquid mass existing in the core of the disc can be pressed out, with a resultant diminished ability of moderation.
In order to make the discs return as far as possible to the right position and thereby resume their ability of moderation, so that the adjacent nerves are not influenced, a separating effect must be obtained with respect to the spaces for the discs.
Known hang stands are shown for instance in French Pat. Nos. 690,032 and 862,797.
The general purpose of the hang stand according to the present invention is to rapidly help in trying to restore the co-operation between muscles, discs and vertebrae, so that back pains are reduced or eliminated.
More specifically, an object of the invention is to provide a hang stand of the general type discussed above wherein the support for the back is placed in the right position relative to the backbone and wherein this correct position is retained during the hanging.
In a hang stand of the type in question it is important that the legs can hang freely. One reason for this is that it involves an essential complication to have several points of support against the body when hanging. If several points of support against the body are used, then several widening points for the discs of the backbone are obtained. Several such widening points do not give an even and well defined widening of the spaces for the discs of the backbone but result in several and unevenly distributed widening alterations in the backbone, which widening alterations also can have a negative influence on the person hanging in the hang stand. To be absolutely sure always to obtain essentially even and, above all, over the greater part of the backbone spread widenings of the spaces for the discs, it is first of all necessary that the back support is placed in a certain fixed position for every person, and that this line support against the backbone is retained in the same position even during the hanging, i.e. the back-support always rests against the same point of the backbone.
Another reason for hanging the legs freely is that the person often wishes to amplify the widening action on the backbone letting the legs swing to and fro during hanging.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The hang stand according to the invention comprises a support for the back, which is immovable in the horizontal direction but is movably guided in the vertical direction by means of vertical tubes, the support being arranged to function as a horizontally immovable support for the intended part of the back. The hang stand further comprises foot supports which are arranged near the lower ends of the tubes and which are placed at such a vertical level above the underframe on which the hang stand rests that the person with his feet placed
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Kramer Arnold W.
Pinkham Richard C.
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