Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Device with applicator having specific movement
Patent
1993-10-22
1996-02-13
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Device with applicator having specific movement
15215, 5651, A61H 700
Patent
active
054908213
ABSTRACT:
A massage device for the soles of the feet is provided. The device includes a number of units releasably connected together to form a long track which allows people to walk thereon and have the soles of their feet massaged by pebble-like projections formed on each of the units. Each unit includes a rectangular, flat, hollow body defining a sealed interior space inflated by air. The flat body has an upper surface having a plurality of different-sized pebble-like projections distributed uniformly thereon. The hollow body is preferably made of a resilient and slightly inflatable material so that by being inflated, the interior pressure is adjusted to provide an adjustable rigidity of the body. With the resilience and the adjustable rigidity provided by the interior pressure, the pebble-like projections are allowed to deflect and deform when stepped on by people, to comply with the shape of the soles of the feet, so as to avoid damaging the soles. Bosses and holes are provided on respective edges of the flat hollow body to allow one unit to be connected to another by having the bosses of one received and engaged by the holes of the other.
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Hafer Robert A.
Hanlon Brian E.
Klein David I.
Rosenberg Morton J.
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