Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing force resistance generated by user only
Patent
1996-08-29
1998-06-09
Reichard, Lynne A.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing force resistance generated by user only
482907, A63B 2100
Patent
active
057625921
ABSTRACT:
A leg multi-muscle stretch apparatus for physical therapy includes a foot carriage mounted to a carriage guide track and permitting the foot carriage to move back and forth along a carriage path, for therapeutically stretching a user foot and user leg with reciprocating motion, and a user support structure pivotally connected the carriage track. The apparatus preferably additionally includes user handle grips, and two elongate arm members pivotally connected to the carriage guide track, where the handle grips are connected to the elongate arm members. The user support structure preferably includes a platform structure including two parallel and laterally spaced apart beam members and a planar web member extending between and supported by the beam members. The apparatus preferably additionally includes two cable and cable pulley mechanisms, each including a series of cables forming a cable loop extending along the user support structure, along the carriage guide track and along the arm members, and then back to the user support structure, and a series of pulleys rotatably mounted to the user support structure and to the carriage guide track for guiding the cable loop, the cable loop being connected to the foot carriage to reciprocate with the foot carriage.
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