Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Having common force transmitting support frame for user and...
Patent
1993-12-22
1996-08-27
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Having common force transmitting support frame for user and...
482134, 482142, 482907, 601 24, A63B 2302
Patent
active
055495346
ABSTRACT:
The spine rehabilitation apparatus includes a frame having a vertical part and an inclined part; a counterforce device on the vertical part of the frame has an operating linkage having a pivot axle, and a support adapted to rest against the upper body region of the user of the rehabilitation apparatus, and the operating linkage is rotatable about the pivot axle; a seat part is on the inclined part of the frame, and below the pivot axle and the support, and is adjustably positioned on the inclined part of the frame; a convex member having a substantially cylindrical surface is affixed to the inclined part of the frame above the seat part forming with the seat part a wedge mechanism; a lever-lock mechanism for securing a user's pelvis to the wedge mechanism by holding the knees of the user in a fixed position is attached to and extends from the frame beneath the seat part and includes a foot rest and a supporting structure for securing a user's pelvis with a pressure applied to the user's knees, substantially parallel to the user's thighs and acting through the thighs on the pelvis, so that the pelvis of the user may be immobilized between the seat part and the convex member when the seat part is adjusted on the inclined part of the frame to a position wherein the convex member coincides with the pelvis and the lowest lumbar vertebra of the user, the convex member curving in its height direction and providing a substantially cylindrical surface on the inclined part of the frame for controlling the extension of a user's spine thereagainst and thereabout, so that the muscles along the spine of a user may be exercised sequentially.
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Apley Richard J.
Hwang Victor K.
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