Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
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  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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  • A61H2201/00—Characteristics of apparatus not provided for in the preceding codes
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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
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  • A63B23/0233—Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch

Definitions

• the target of the invention in question is an exercising equipment and therapy device, which is in accordance with the introduction of the claim 1, especially to rehabilitate body muscles, such as back muscles, stomach muscles and foot muscles, to practice movement coordination and balance and to treat backbone and its joints.
• the gravity can be used to intensify training movements and a starting position of stretching or bending training can be totally freely chosen, and at the same time the curved form of the plane element follows the backbone and supports the mobility of the backbone, and at the said starting position, a starting stretch with a desired magnitude is obtained easily to a muscle group, which increases the efficiency of the movements per- formance essentially.
• the exercising and therapy device can be used as an excellent practicing equipment for running and for skating and for skate-skiing as well as for alpine skiing, which can be used to improve an exertion force and to develop balance combined with the circulation of the body, also advantageously as a declivity device of a leisure, such as an dancing or as a swinging board.
• the exercising and therapy device can be considered as a portable gym, the user group of which reaches from children to adults and from frail ones to top athletes.
• the idea of the invention is thus to adapt the form of the curve, most advantageously the form of the asymmetric curve and choice of the own place on the curved base in different starting positions and movements course, which leaves in a new way, already at the start position, from the stretching.
• stomach exercises and back exercises and side exercises a support can be applied by feet from a a lower part of a wall for having a sufficient stability.
• the invention is described in the following more detailed by means of a preferred embodiment thereof referring to the accompanying drawing, where
• FIG.1 presents a combined exercising and therapy device according to the invention as a perspective view, which can be used as the declivity device of a leisure, such as the danc- ing or as the swinging board,
• FIG.2 presents the exercising and therapy device of Figure FIG.l that has been equipped with a guard
• FIG.3 presents a partial side view of the end or of the end zone of the curved plane element of the exercising and therapy device
• FIG.4 presents a partial side view of the end or of the end zone of the curved plane element of the exercising and therapy device.
• the device according to an advantageous application example of the invention comprises a plane element 1, which has been shaped at least partly curved from its profile and which serves as the training base on it to perform the desired movements, rehabilitation and training measures and/or treatments.
• the curved plane element 1 will lean as supported by the edges of its ends 2, 3 against a base, like against a floor or against suitable supports.
• the inclination of the training base can be adjusted and this way the same can be changed, i.e. the length of the course and correspondingly the load effect of the gravity can be added or reduced.
• This kind of an immobile position is meant into the rehabilitation use, into the practicing use and/or for the treatment care use especially of the back muscles and of the stomach muscles and of the backbone and of the joint thereof.
• the training base can also be optionally set to the position, where the same is swingingly moveable.
• the exercising and therapy device will lean against the base 4 from its curved part 11, which is between the edges of the ends 2, 3, in other words the curved plane element 1 is against the base.
• This swinging position is meant especially to practice movement coordination of the foot muscles and the balance.
• the exercising and therapy device comprising the curved plane element when turned into the swinging position, makes possible to arrange different competitions, such as dancing and/or running in place.
• the plane element 1 is not the most essential from the point of view of the invention.
• the plane element is made from such a material, which does not yield unnecessarily under the user, when bent to a curve, and that the same lasts without fracture the load directed by the user to it.
• the curved plane element which is strong enough, can be made from a board of plywood or plastic that is for example about 15 - 25 mm strong, advantageously 20 mm strong.
• the profile of the curved plane element is asymmetric.
• the said profile can also be totally symmetrical, for example a part of the circumference of a circle.
• the plane element 1 according to the example comprises.
• the first end zone 21 which is essentially straight and which limited to the edge of the first end 2, which is in Figure the end zone on the left side, and the length of which is advantageously in the range between 8 - 20 cm. So that the aim of the curved plane element 1 to yield will not increase too much nor the strength of the plane element has to be expanded bigger than mentioned 20 mm, the length of the first straight end zone must be restricted no more than 30 cm.
• the second end zone 31 which is essentially straight and which is limited to the edge of the second end 3, which is in Figure the end zone on the right side, and the length of which is advantageously selected to be between 20 - 30 cm. So that the aim of the curved plane element 1 to yield will not increase too much nor the strength of the plane element has to be expanded bigger than mentioned 20 mm, the length of the first straight end zone must be restricted no more than 40 cm. • The curved part 11, which is between the first end zone 21 and the second end zone
• the curvature radius of the curved plane element 1 is changing so that at on the side of the end of the first edge zone 21 the radius curvature is smaller than on the side of the end of the second edge zone 31 to make versatile training businesses possible, or vice versa.
• the exercising and therapy device can be equipped with a band loop of elastic material (not presented in Figures).
• a band loop is extremely suitable a cloth covered elastic or cord, which is about 1 cm strong.
• the band/strap loop/link can be placed for example around the user's neck, in which case load and effect of the bending and/or of the stretching trainings can be essentially expanded.
• the exercising and therapy device can placed to hang from the link/loop on the wall (not presented in Figures).
• the band/strap loop/link can be fastened detachably to one end zone 21 of the plane element 1, for example to the first edge zone 21, advantageously either between a support piece 9 fastened onto the outer surface of the end zone of the plane element and a pad 7 or between the support piece and the edge zone of edge of the end 2 or to section of the projection part or of the projection element, which on the back surface of the end zone of the plane element. It is advantageous that the band/strap loop/link could be glided through plane element such that one can hold on to the strap/band element both from the side of outer surface of the plane element and from the side of the inner surface of the plane ele- ment.
• the projection parts or the projection pieces 5 are of wood and the same have been fastened, in this example, on the side of the inner surface of the curved plane element to the brim edges of the end zones 21, 31, so that the exercising and therapy device will lean most advantageously against the base by the projection parts or by the projection pieces.
• the inhibition elements of the sliding which are for example rub- ber sleeves made of non-sulfur rubber and which do not leave traces when moving or sliding on the surface of the base, have been fitted around the heads of the projection parts or of the projection pieces to inhibit sliding of the exercising and therapy device on the base 4.
• the projection parts or the projection pieces 5 can be formed in the same casting processes as a curved plane element 1 is made, 1.
• the outer circumference of the curved plane element 1 comprises the pad 7, which extends at least partly over the length of the part 11 that is between the head edges 2, 3 of the plane element. Further the pad may be covered by a guard 8 or protection element, which may be also arranged to cover the plane element totally or an essential part of the plane element. It is possible to measure the pad also such that the same covers totally the outer circumference of the curved plane element.
• the fact of how the pad, and the possible guard or the protection element above is, is fastened is not the most essential from the point of this invention, however it is preferred, that the plane element 1 with hard surface extends as little as possible outside the side edges of the pad. It is preferred to choose the material of the pad, such that the same slides as little as possible on the skin or on a clothing of the user while making possible twisting of the exercising or therapy device on base in the swing use.
• the exercising and therapy device is provided, most advantageously, with a shaped support piece 9 of hard material, which is fastened to the outer surface or to outer circumference of the curved plane element, advantageously to the end zone 21 , 31. It is advantageous that the support part 9 is located at the end zone 21 of the plane element, which curves asymmetrically and more mildly, as indicated in the figures, and/or at the end zone 31 of the plane element, which curves more steeply.
• FIG.3 and FIG.4 present as a side view the end 2, 3 or the end zone 21, 31 of the curved plane element of an exercising and therapy device, by means of which examples the exercising and therapy device is essentially immobile on the base.
• the end 2, 3 or the end zone 21, 31 of the curved plane element 1 is provided with a lengthening 10.
• the lengthening is provided with a projection part or with a projection part 5, around the ends of which have been arranged the elements 6 against sliding, which are for example rubber rings, which have been made of non-sulphur FIG.3 and FIG.4, which present as a side view the end 2, 3 or the end zone 21, 31 of the curved plane element of an exercising and therapy device, by means of which examples the exercising and therapy device is essentially immobile on the base.
• the end 2, 3 or the end zone 21, 31 of the curved plane element 1 is provided with a lengthening 10.
• the lengthening is provided with a projection part or with a projection part 5, around the ends of which have been arranged the elements 6 against sliding, which are for example rubber rings, which have been made of non- sulphur rubber.
• the lengthening 10 of the plane element 1 comprises a bent part of the plane element, a free brim edge of which is limited to the end edge of the level element, in other words to the end edge of the exercising and therapy device.
• the bending angle of the lengthening in relation to the outer surface of the plane element is > 90°.
• the lengthening 10 of the plane element 1 is composed of a piece, which s attached, for example by screw fastening means or by etc., to the end edge of the plane element, which extends from the surface level of the curved plane element 1 at an angle that is > 90°.
• the element against sliding may also be a rub- ber piece with a groove, in which case the groove receives the free end edge of the plane element and the groove piece forms the said element against sliding as such. Then it will be advantageous that the inhibition element of the sliding has been stiffened with an embedded element of hard material.
• the device according to the invention can have a curve form of a circle or an asymmetric curve form, which changes continuously from its radius of curvature and between the ends of which there are at all no direct parts.

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