DE202006011361U1 - Therapeutic ball game has a circular base with ball holes set amidst colored fields - Google Patents

Abstract

A ball game animates a patient and a therapeutic care worker to engage in physical activity. The game has a circular base (1) within an enclosed circular frame (2) with e.g. four holes of the same diameter (3) and four handgrips (4). A ball is placed on the base (1). The diameter of the ball is less than that of the holes (3). The base bears colored zones.

Description

The Most toys that cause physical activity Animate, are for run a player as a skill game.

Often they are played while sitting and thus do not promote the mototics of the whole body. Two or more players play a game of movement or reaction together that's how newcomers face those who have been practicing for a long time or train, hardly the possibility keep up.

For therapeutic activities, to the patient as possible unconsciously controlled movement sequences there is no playfully designed instrumentarium.

Of the innovative step is in the claimed solution of a movement and partner games completed.

The Movement game is played by two players (or therapist and patient) each held on 2 adjacent handles. The ball gets in the way, on the "floating" floor, roll in. The frame limits the range, and a top-closing and inwardly superior Ring, or a transparent disc, prevents the fall out of the Bullet.

Both Players try through physical movements and observation of the ball and the expected movement of the ball opposing fellow player to roll the ball in a hole of the opposing color.

The Ball, which is rolled into a hole, can through the conical, itself tapering shape downwards of punching does not fall through. She is "trapped" and watches under the game floor about 1/4 of its size out. beats one of the two plays with the flat hand under the ball, she jumps back in the game.

So the hits are counted, until a maximum number is reached.

The have to play invariably focus on the globe and the associated movements, to score. Through this, and by the remarkable "fun factor", let the players too extraordinary to mislead movements.

If the two colors at an angle across from So in "X-form" are offset, results a further incentive to play.

To have only 2 opposite handles a different color, the color-coded grip on the right and left on the left. So have left and right-handed the same conditions.

It is for extremely important motorized every human being of every age Skills to improve and if possible to get long. Just as important for him is his reaction, speed and the ability to a few tenths of a second to anticipate, to train. This fun-making motion game can do this.

The circulation increases, oxygen consumption is higher, fat is burned and the senses concentrate. That's the game also for sick, disabled and elderly people interesting. Because the game can also be played while sitting wheelchair users can also become more active in the movement.

One a patient with little or no mobility could play a game with the doctor or therapists are filmed. Or, he stands with his back in front a mirror, so that the doctor through the mirror during the game can watch. The patient focuses on the rolling ball and makes many fast and unconscious movements. So can the doctor a diagnosis of the movement sequences and the coordination ability of his provide patients.

One Beginner and a pro, will find in this game equal prerequisites; the ball has its idiosyncratic inertia and chance or that game luck also play a role. So is the victory or the defeat balanced and for the easy to handle.

A execution is in examples 1-3 to see.

It demonstrate:

1 a view of the game, with the distinction marked in "X-form" by means of strokes and dots

2 a section through a side view shows a rolling ball and a ball caught in the conical hole

3 physical, three-dimensional view of the game.

Claims (7)

A, for physical movement animierend, partner game characterized in that a planar, preferably roundish floor ( 1 ) closed at the bottom edge, closed ne frame ( 2 ), for example 4 holes of the same diameter ( 3 ) and 4 handles ( 4 ), and a sphere ( 5 ) whose diameter is smaller than the diameter of one of the holes ( 3 ). First extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that at least two preferably obliquely opposite handles ( 4 ) and the holes ( 3 ), have a color distinction, Second extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that the holes ( 3 ) taper conically downwards ( 6 ). Third extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that the frame ( 2 ) preferably 4 leading edges ( 7 ) having. Fourth extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that around the holes ( 3 ) a conical well ( 8th ) and the holes ( 3 ) thus not at the height of the soil ( 1 ) lie. Fifth extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that the frame ( 2 ) at the top, an inwardly projecting ring ( 9 ) having. Sixth extension according to protection claim 1, characterized in that the frame ( 2 ) is finally topped off with a transparent disc.