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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a body mobilization device, that is to say a device making it possible to set in motion in a controlled manner a part of the body of a human subject using the device.
• the invention relates to the field of functional rehabilitation of patients, as well as the physical preparation of healthy subjects.
• one of the basic techniques implemented by physiotherapists is passive mobilization which is applied, among others, in traumatology, rheumatology, neurology, resuscitation, etc.
• the patient does not exert any voluntary motor action, so the patient's joints are set in motion by the physiotherapist with or without equipment, such as devices called arthromotors.
• Mobilization is said to be active when the articular movements of the subject are obtained by voluntary muscular contractions of the latter. Active mobilization allows the subject to perform exercises with or without the help of the physiotherapist and with or without constraint, depending on the pathology and/or the physical preparation objective to be achieved.
• Various dedicated hardware is generally used. Among these, we know the balls, commonly called “Swiss Ball”, “Klein-Vogelbach Balls” or “gymball”, which are inflatable spheres with a certain elasticity, on which the subject places a part of his body to perform physical exercises, especially joint exercises.
• the subject sits on the ball, resting his pelvis directly on a high portion of the ball, while his feet remain in contact with the ground: by trying to keep his balance, the subject notably works the joints and the muscles of his lower limbs, pelvis and back.
• the existing balls are comfortable and come in different diameters, the diameter chosen by the subject being a function of the size of the latter and the part of the body to be rehabilitated or to be worked on.
• Such balls allow you to work on muscle strengthening, proprioception of deep muscles, coordination, relaxation, sheathing, etc.
• the advantages and virtues of these balls are now well established, so much so that they are used both in the medical world and by athletes, especially for muscle building.
• the existing balloons remain materials which, by nature, are unstable. Its use requires “taming" the precariousness of its stability, which can be difficult or dangerous, even impossible for certain people in a situation of reduced mobility or fragility. Moreover, the existing balloons do not allow easy control the characteristics, such as the amplitude and the speed of the movements of the ball, and therefore do not make it possible to control the effects of the mobilization exercises carried out with the ball.
• US 6,135,928 discloses equipment allowing natural human locomotion.
• This equipment comprises a sphere and a frame.
• the frame is arranged below the ground and supports the sphere so that only a small upper portion of the sphere emerges above the ground, via an opening in the ground.
• the equipment also includes an aerial support which is fixedly held vertically above the sphere by a bracket. This aerial support holds a user standing on the upper portion of the sphere, via a harness.
• the sphere is sized accordingly, with a diameter of between 6 and 7 feet, that is to say between 180 and 215 cm.
• the sphere is left freely rotating around its center relative to the frame, which allows the user to walk or run on the upper part of the sphere, causing the latter to rotate around its center while the user stands still in relation to the chassis.
• the equipment comprises, at the interface between the frame and the sphere, both "crazy" rollers, which are distributed over the entire surface of the sphere, located under the ground, and which allow the sphere to move in rotation around its center in any direction, and wheels with a horizontal fixed axis, which are located at the equator of the sphere and which are used to reduce the slippage of the sphere and its involuntary rotation around a vertical axis passing through the center of the sphere.
• the equipment is designed to operate without the use of a motor.
• US 6,135,928 mentions the possibility of motorizing the wheels with a fixed horizontal axis in order to be able to "accelerate” the rotation of the sphere and thus force the user to "walk faster".
• US 6,135,928 specifies that the wheels with a horizontal fixed axis must be closely in contact with the outer face of the sphere, which amounts to saying that the wheels with a horizontal fixed axis are pressed horizontally against the sphere.
• the object of the present invention is to provide a new body mobilization device which, while using a ball similar to those mentioned above, is simple and safe to use and allows effective and controlled body mobilization exercises to be carried out, if necessary in passive mobilization.
• the subject of the invention is a body mobilization device, as defined in claim 1.
• One of the ideas underlying the invention is to use an existing ball, of the type mentioned above, but seeking, on the one hand, to stabilize the position of the ball relative to the ground, in particular to prevent the ball does not roll on the ground, and, on the other hand, to lead the ball rotating on itself in a motorized and therefore controlled manner.
• the invention provides that the ball is retained by contact by a dedicated member of the device, called a stabilization member, which, while maintaining the center of the ball fixed relative to a fixed frame of the device, leaves the ball free to at least tilt on itself around a horizontal axis passing through the center of the ball, or even to turn on itself around its center, relative to the frame.
• the user can sit on the ball, keeping both feet on the ground, or stand with one foot on the ground and the other foot on the high portion of the ball.
• the invention provides that the ball is driven at least in tilting around the aforementioned horizontal axis, or even in rotation around its center, relative to the frame by a dedicated motorized member of the device, called a control member. mobile support, on which a lower portion of the ball rests.
• these motorized movements can, for example, be of low angular amplitude and rapid in displacement, or else be with a greater angular amplitude and a slower speed.
• the user passively accompanies these motorized movements of the ball or, on the contrary, seeks to resist these motorized movements of the ball. In both cases, these motorized movements are operated either pre-programmed or randomly.
• the invention is also available in a version where the balloon is not spherical, but of elongated shape, in particular in the shape of a peanut, centered on the aforementioned horizontal axis.
• the stabilizing member and the movable support member can have multiple embodiments, which are covered by the invention.
• the apparatus in accordance with the invention makes it possible to carry out functional rehabilitation exercises, typically under the supervision of a physiotherapist, but, more generally, makes it possible to carry out physical preparation exercises in the field of sport and fitness, as detailed below.
• the health or sports professional can in particular use the device according to the invention to make the user work according to precise movements in compliance with biomechanics, which are controlled as to their characteristics, such as time, speed, amplitude, repetition, etc.
• biomechanics which are controlled as to their characteristics, such as time, speed, amplitude, repetition, etc.
• the user of the device according to the invention thus works in a safe, efficient and playful manner.
• Advantageous features of the apparatus according to the invention are specified in the other claims.
• Figure 1 is a perspective diagram of an apparatus according to the invention, according to a first embodiment
• Figure 2 is a schematic section along the plane II-II of Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a schematic section along line III-III of Figure 2;
• Figure 6 is a schematic section in the same plane as Figure 3, illustrating another embodiment of the movable support member
• Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 2, illustrating an alternative embodiment for a stabilizing member belonging to the device of the previous figures;
• Figure 8 is also a view similar to Figure 2, schematically illustrating another alternative embodiment for the movable support member of the device of the previous figures;
• Figure 10 is a schematic elevational view, according to the arrow X of Figure 9, of part of the device shown in Figure 9;
• Figures 11 and 12 are views respectively similar to Figures 1 and 2, which illustrate a third embodiment of the device, according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 to 3 a body mobilization device 1 designed to set the body of a user U in motion.
• the device 1 comprises a balloon 10 having a spherical shape whose center is referenced 11.
• the balloon 10 consists of a flexible envelope, in particular elastic, which is designed to be inflatable and which, in the inflated state , gives the ball 10 its spherical shape.
• the specificities of the ball 10 are not limiting of the invention as long as this ball can support the weight of a part of the body of the user U, resting on an upper portion 12 of the ball, that is to say to say a portion which, when the device 1 is used, faces upwards.
• the user is seated on the upper portion 12 of the ball 10, resting on this upper portion 12 by his pelvis, while the two feet of the user are in direct contact with the ground.
• the balloon 10 has for example a diameter of between 50 and 90 cm.
• the upper portion 12 tends to slightly crush under the effect of the weight of the user U, as shown schematically in Figure 3, it being however noted that the ball 10 is designed to retain its overall spherical shape, in particular in its intermediate portion 13 connecting the upper portion 12 to a lower portion 14 of the ball.
• the ball 10 thus typically corresponds to the balls which are mentioned in the introductory part of this document, that is to say the balls intended for physical activity and available commercially under the names of “Klein-Vogelbach balls”. , “gymball” or “Swiss Ball”.
• the device 1 also comprises a frame 20 by which the device 1 rests fixedly on the ground.
• the frame 20 mainly comprises a tubular box 21 centered on a geometric axis which, when the device 1 is used, extends vertically, that is to say say perpendicular to the ground.
• the specifics of the frame 20 are not limiting as long as this frame ensures, in service, a fixed support of the device 1 on the ground.
• the frame 20 includes a base 22.
• the ball 10 is attached to the frame 20 not directly, but with the interposition of a stabilizing member 30.
• This stabilizing member 30 is carried by the frame 20 and is designed to retain by contact the ball 10 so as to both keep the center 11 of the ball 10 fixed with respect to the frame 20 and leave the ball 10 freely rotatable around its center 11 with respect to the frame 20.
• this body of Stabilization 30 takes multiple possible embodiments.
• the stabilizing member 30 comprises a part 31 which, in use, is fixedly integrated into the frame 10 and is in sliding contact with the ball 10.
• This part 31 here has a open torus shape, arranged coaxially to the tubular box 21 of the frame 20, being located at the end of the tubular box 21, which is axially opposite the ground.
• the toric shape of the part 31 is used to arrange the stabilizing member 30 laterally to the ball 10 and to bring this stabilizing member 30 into contact with the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10 on a zone 32 of the part 31, which runs continuously all around the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10.
• the zone 32 of the stabilizing member 30, which is in contact with the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10 extends continuously over 360 degrees around the ball, which physically retains ball 10 relative to frame 20 in all horizontal directions.
• this zone 32 of the stabilizing member 30 prevents, by contact interference with the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10, that the position of the center 11 of the ball 10 can be modified with respect to the frame 20.
• the center 1 1 of the ball 10 is thus immobilized with respect to the frame 20 ready functional games, related in particular to the inherent flexibility of the wall of the ball 10.
• the area 32 extends so continues over a lesser angular extent around the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10, as long as this zone of the stabilizing member 30 extends continuously, in projection in a horizontal plane, over more than 180° around the ball 10.
• the sliding contact provided between the zone 32 of the stabilizing member 30 and the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10 leaves the ability of the ball 10 to rotate freely on itself around its center 11 with respect to the frame 20 : this sliding contact results, in particular, from ad hoc characteristics of the part 31, in particular its geometric profile, its constituent material, etc.
• the device 1 is designed to drive the ball 10 in rotation in a motorized manner around its center 11 with respect to the frame 20.
• the device 1 comprises a movable support member 40, which is shown only schematically in Figures 1 to 3 and of which multiple embodiments are possible.
• the movable support member 40 is motorized and is adapted to support and drive in rotation around the center 1 1 the lower portion 14 of the ball 10, which in service, is pressed against the member mobile support 40, as clearly visible in Figure 3.
• the lower portion 14 of the balloon 10 is pressed downwards against the mobile support member 40 under the effect of the support of the user U on the upper portion 12 of the ball 10, this lower portion 14 having a tendency to slightly deform in a flexible manner by crushing for reasons similar to those indicated above with regard to the crushing of the upper portion 12 of the ball 10.
• the support of the lower portion 14 of the ball 10 on the mobile support member 40 allows the transmission of movement from the mobile member 40 to the lower portion 14 of the ball 10 and, through there, to the whole ball 10.
• the movable support member 40 comprises a plate 41, on which the lower portion 14 of the balloon 10 rests and which is mounted movable on a base 42 of the movable support member 40, being guided, here exclusively, according to a rectilinear translational movement T with respect to this base 42, and this by any suitable guiding means.
• the base 42 is fixedly secured to the frame 20 and thus forms a fixed part for the movable support member 40, compared to the plate 41 which forms a movable part.
• the movable support member 40 includes a drive unit 43 for controlling the movement, following the translation T, the plate 41 relative to the base 42: in the example considered in Figure 4, the drive unit 43 comprises an electric motor 44 whose output rotates on itself an endless screw 45, which is carried by the base 42 with the interposition of bearings and which is screwed into a nut 46 integrally connected to the plate 41 .
• the electric motor 44 By actuating the electric motor 44, the screw 45 is screwed/unscrewed in the nut 46 while the latter is locked in rotation, which drives this nut 46 and, thereby, the plate 41 following the rectilinear translation T.
• the mobile support member 40 illustrated in FIG. 4 corresponds to a motorized actuator with translational linear output.
• the translational movement T of the movable support member 40 is transmitted to the lower portion 14 of the ball 10, being transformed, by the presence of the stabilizing member 30, into a tilting movement B of the ball 10 around of a horizontal axis X40 passing through the center 11 of the ball.
• This tilting movement B which is here the only movement with which the lower portion 14 of the ball 14 is driven by the movable support member 40, is oriented correspondingly to the direction of the translational movement T, and this in the two possible opposite directions, as shown schematically in Figure 3.
• control unit 50 belonging to the device 1.
• This control unit 50 is represented schematically only in FIG. 1 , being housed inside the frame 20 without this arrangement being limiting.
• This control unit 50 makes it possible to control the actuation of the movable support member 40.
• the control unit 50 controls the electric motor 44 of so as to control the kinematic characteristics of the translational movement T and, thereby, those of the tilting movement B.
• the control unit 50 is typically of an electronic nature, by including for example a microprocessor. More generally, the control unit 50 is connected, in a wired or wireless manner, to the movable support member 40 for the purposes of controlling the latter, in particular its power supply, typically electricity.
• FIGS. 6 et seq. Before looking at the alternative embodiments which are illustrated in FIGS. 6 et seq., we will now present in more detail examples of the use of the device 1 described so far.
• the actuation of the movable support member 40 by the control unit 50 drives the ball 10 according to the movement of tilting B centered on the horizontal axis X40.
• This tilting movement B is advantageously controlled back and forth with respect to an initial position of the ball 10 around the horizontal axis X40, with an angular amplitude which is controlled by the control unit 50.
• the user U can then either work passively, accompanying the tilting movement B of the ball, or work in resistance to this tilting movement B.
• the user U mobilizes the joints and muscles of his lower limbs, his pelvis and his back in order to keep his balance in a seated position on the upper portion 12 of the ball 10.
• the user U works in this way in a secure manner since the ball 10, even driven with the tilting movement B, is retained by the stabilization member 30, as explained above.
• FIG. 5 illustrates the situation where the user U is seated on the ball 10 so that the horizontal axis X40 extends substantially in the sagittal plane of the user U, the latter being observed from behind in FIG. 5: the joint and muscle mobilization of the user U is then oriented in a direction mediolateral ection with respect to the user, as indicated by the arrows ML in FIG. 5.
• the situations respectively illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 5, in which the user U respectively occupies two different seated positions which are at 90° one another, are two configurations of use which are not limiting, but which are preferential in the sense that the latter can respectively allow mobilization exclusively in the anteroposterior direction and mobilization exclusively in the mediolateral direction.
• the frame 20 is advantageously provided with markings or visual indicators, which are respectively associated with the two configurations of use and which allow the user U to easily position himself by relative to the chassis and thus to stand on the ball 10 in the chosen seated position.
• markings or visual indicators are respectively associated with the two configurations of use and which allow the user U to easily position himself by relative to the chassis and thus to stand on the ball 10 in the chosen seated position.
• the angular amplitude of the tilting of the balloon 10 relative to the aforementioned initial position, as well as the speed of this tilting and the number of back and forth movements can be adjusted using the control unit 50, by defining for example one or several pre-programmed sequences or, on the contrary, by authorizing random sequences.
• the user U can use the device 1 in positions other than the seated position.
• the user II is standing, with one of his feet which is supported downwards on the upper portion 12 of the ball 10 so that the ball supports the weight of a part of the body of the user U, while his other foot remains pressed directly on the ground.
• the device 1 can be used, for the purpose of bodily mobilization of the user II, according to multiple positions of the user, allowing the latter to support the weight of at least a part of his body on the upper portion 12 of the balloon 10.
• the apparatus 1 makes it possible to carry out on the user II a functional rehabilitation, in passive mobilization or in resistance, with control of the body mobilization of the user.
• the device 1 allows the user II to work on his flexibility and his muscular strength, to perform stretching, to improve his balance and to perform postural gymnastics.
• the bodily mobilization applied to the user II by the device 1 is carried out in a simple and effective manner, without apprehension on the part of the user, even if the latter is in a situation of reduced mobility or fragility. cognitive.
• the device 1 is equipped with an interface 60 which is connected to the control unit 50 for the purposes of activation and adjustment of the latter.
• the interface 60 comprises control elements, which are respectively associated with the activation and adjustment parameters of the control unit 50 and which can be operated by hand.
• the interface 60 comprises a display screen 61, which integrates the aforementioned control elements and which, in addition, makes it possible to display for the user U values relating to the operation of the apparatus 1, such as the duration of the exercise in progress, the kinematic characteristics of the movements applied to the ball 10 by the mobile support member 40, the detail of the sequence or sequences in progress, etc.
• the display screen 61 thus allows feedback to the user U, allowing the latter to monitor and control the bodily mobilization applied to him by the device 1.
• FIG. 6 shows, at As an alternative to the movable support member 40, a movable support member 140, which is functionally similar to the movable support member 40, but which is structurally different. More specifically, the mobile support member 140 comprises a treadmill 141 on which the lower part 14 of the ball 10 rests.
• the movable support member 40 also comprises rollers 142, around which the conveyor belt 141 is mounted while being linked in movement to these rollers 142, as well as support shafts 143 on which the rollers 142 are respectively mounted to rotate around from their central axis.
• the support shafts 143 are fixedly secured to the frame 20.
• the movable support member 140 also comprises a motor unit 144, typically with electric motorization, which makes it possible to drive in rotation at least one of the rollers 142 and, by there, to control the movement of the treadmill 141 following a rectilinear translational movement, which is similar to the translational movement T described with reference to FIG. 4 and which, for convenience, is also referenced T in FIG. 6.
• the conveyor belt 141 and the rollers 142 together form a movable part for the movable support member 140, which, vis-à-vis the fixed part constituted by the support shafts 143 and vis-à-vis the unit motor 144, is functionally similar to the plate 41 of the mobile support member 40, vis-à-vis the base 42 and the motor unit 43 of this mobile support member 40.
• the movable support member 40 and 140 are not limiting but, on the contrary, illustrate the multiple possibilities of realization that can take the movable support member belonging to the device 1, in order to support the lower part 14 of the balloon 10 and to cause this lower portion of the balloon to rotate around the center 11 of the balloon 10 relative to the frame 20, in particular following the tilting movement B around the horizontal axis X40 , or even exclusively following this tilting movement B.
• FIG. 7 shows, as an alternative to the stabilizer 30, a stabilizer member 130, which is functionally similar to the stabilizer member 30, but which differs structurally from it in several respects.
• the stabilizing member 130 comprises three rollers 131 respectively centered on axes X131.
• the rollers 131 are arranged laterally to the balloon 10, being in contact with the intermediate portion 13 of the balloon 10 on three respective distinct zones 132 of the rollers 131.
• the respective axes X131 of the rollers 131 extend, both horizontally and substantially parallel to tangents to the intermediate portion 13 of the balloon 10.
• the three zones 132 where the rollers 131 are in contact with the portion intermediary 13 of the balloon 10 are punctual, or almost punctual taking into account the deformation capacity of the wall of the balloon 10.
• the zones 132 of the rollers 131 are, in projection in a horizontal plane, regularly distributed around the intermediate portion 13 of the ball 10 so as to constrain the center 11 of the ball 10 fixedly in position.
• each of the rollers 131 is provided, when the apparatus 1 is used, to rotate freely around its axis X131.
• the rollers 131 are, in service, freely movable relative to the frame 20, namely, here, freely rotating around of their axis X131.
• the rollers 131 find themselves driven by contact with the ball, in rotation around their axis X131.
• Figure 8 shows, as an alternative embodiment to the movable support members 40 and 140 for the device 1, a movable support member 240.
• the mobile support member 240 makes it possible, in particular from the translational movement T, to drive the lower portion 14 of the ball 10 relative to the frame 20 following the tilting movement B around a horizontal axis 240 similar to the horizontal axis X40.
• the movable support member 240 also makes it possible to drive this lower portion 14 of the ball 10 according to a movement other than the tilting movement B, namely a tilting movement B' around a horizontal axis X240', which passes through the center 11 of the balloon 10 but which is distinct from the horizontal axis X240.
• mobile support 240 can be obtained from a translational movement T' of the mobile support member 240 relative to the frame 20, in particular by integrating into the mobile support member 240 arrangements similar to those described more high for the mobile support members 40 and 140 in connection with the translational movement T.
• the mobile support member 240 comprises two motorized actuators with output linear actuator, which are individually similar to the linear actuator shown in Figure 4, but which are arranged "in series" with each other.
• the latter makes it possible, in use, to drive the ball 10 in rotation around its center 11 with respect to the frame 20 according to two different distinct movements, namely tilting movements B and B'.
• the respective kinematic characteristics of these two different movements are advantageously controlled by the control unit 50, adapted accordingly to control the movement of the mobile support member 240.
• This device 301 comprises the ball 10 described above, as well as a frame 320, a stabilizing member 330 and a mobile support member 340, which are functionally similar to, respectively, the frame 20, the stabilizing member 30 or 130, and the movable support member 40 or 140 of the device 1, but which are structurally different from the latter.
• the stabilizing member 330 is arranged below the lower part 14 of the balloon 10 and forms a bowl 331, which is fixedly integrated into the frame 320 and in the hollow of which the lower part 14 of the balloon 10 is placed. complementary contact.
• This cup 331 makes it possible, in particular by its complementarity with the lower portion 14 of the ball 10, to retain the ball by contact, while maintaining the center 11 of the ball 10 substantially fixed with respect to the frame 320, while leaving the ball 10 freely rotatable. around its center 11 relative to the chassis.
• the bowl 311 is provided in sliding contact with the ball 10, the upper face of the bowl 311 being advantageously covered with sliding contact strips 332, as shown schematically in Figure 10.
• the movable support member 340 is, for its part, made in the form of a motorized roller 341 centered on a horizontal axis X341.
• the motorized roller 341 includes a motorization, which is typically electric and which is advantageously integrated inside the motorized roller. This motorization is capable of driving the motorized roller 341 in rotation on itself around its axis X341 with respect to a fixed support of the motorized roller, this support being fixedly fixed to the frame 320.
• the corresponding rotary movement of the motorized roller 341, which is referenced R in Figures 9 and 10, is transmitted to the lower part 14 of the balloon 10, which is pressed against the motorized roller 341, by means of the flexible deformation of this lower portion 14 of the balloon 10, as indicated schematically in the figure 9.
• the motorized roller 341 thus ensures the support of the lower portion 14 of the ball 10 and, when it is rotated along the movement R, drives this lower portion of the ball in rotation around the center 1 1 of the ball relative to the frame 320, in particular or even exclusively following a tilting movement, which is similar to the tilting movement B presented above and which, for convenience, is also referenced B in Figure 9.
• FIG. 1 1 and 12 is shown a body mobilization device 401, as an alternative embodiment to the devices 1 and 301 considered so far.
• This apparatus 401 comprises a balloon 410, which, like balloon 10, consists of an inflated flexible envelope, but which, unlike balloon 10, is not spherical but has an elongated shape.
• the elongated shape of the balloon 410 is centered on an axis X410, along which this elongated shape extends in length and which, when the apparatus 401 is used, extends horizontally.
• the balloon 410 thus has a center 411, through which the horizontal axis X410 passes and which is located substantially halfway between the opposite longitudinal ends of the balloon 410.
• the elongated shape of the balloon 410 In section perpendicular to the horizontal axis 410, the elongated shape of the balloon 410 has an outline, that is to say an external profile, which is circular and centered on the horizontal axis X410.
• This circular contour is found substantially at any point on the horizontal axis X410 along the ball 410 between its opposite longitudinal ends, except, where appropriate, locally at these longitudinal ends.
• the diameter of the outline of the elongated shape of the balloon 410 is not constant in the running part of the balloon, connecting to each other the opposite longitudinal ends of the balloon .
• the ball 410 thus advantageously includes a middle part 415, at which the center 41 1 is located along the horizontal axis X410, and two end parts 416 and 417, which are arranged on either side of the middle part 415 along the horizontal axis X410.
• the contour of the elongated shape of the balloon 410 has a diameter whose value is smaller than the diameter of the contour in the end parts 416 and 417: as a result, the balloon 410 generally has the shape of a peanut. .
• the device 401 also includes a frame 420 which is functionally similar to the frame 20 of the device 1, but which is structurally different from the latter in the sense that the frame 420 is adapted to the elongated shape of the balloon 410.
• the device 401 also includes a stabilizing member 430. Similar to the stabilizing member 30 of the device 1, the stabilizing member 430 is carried by the chassis 420, being in service interposed between the latter and the ball 410, and makes it possible to retain the ball 410 by contact. of the ball 410 with respect to the frame 420, while leaving the ball freedom of movement with respect to the frame 420. This freedom of movement is however less than that left by the stabilizing member 30, in the sense that, with regard to the elongated shape of the ball 410, the stabilizing member 430 leaves the ball freely mobile relative to the frame 420 essentially, or even exclusively, following a tilting movement around the horizontal axis X410.
• This tilting movement is similar to the tilting movement B described previously so that, for convenience, it is also referenced B in FIGS. 11 and 12. limitations and the various considerations previously developed about the multiple possible embodiments for the stabilizer member 30 apply, mutatis mutandis, to the stabilizer member 430.
• the device 401 also comprises a movable support member 440 which is functionally similar to the movable support member 40 or 140 of the device 1.
• the movable support member 410 is in particular designed to support the lower portion 414 of the ball 410, pressed, in particular at the level of the end portions 416 and 417, against it under the effect of the user U being supported on the upper portion 412 of the ball, and to drive this lower portion 414 and , thereby, the entire ball 410 following the tilting movement B, in particular from a translational movement which is similar to the translational movement T described above for the movable support members 40 and 140.
• the member mobile support 440 is for example structurally similar to mobile support members 40 and 140 detailed above.
• the use of the device 401 is similar to that of the device 1.
• the user U is seated on the ball 410, more precisely on the middle part 415 of the latter thus benefiting from an anteroposterior wedging effect of his pelvis by the terminal parts 416 and 417 of the balloon, and this so that the horizontal axis X410 extends substantially in the sagittal plane of the user: by means of his driven by the mobile support member 440 and its restraint guided by the stabilizing member 430, the ball 410 is moved according to the tilting movement B, which induces joint and muscle mobilization of the user U oriented along a mediolateral direction relative to the user.
• the device 401 can be used in various other configurations. Beyond the specificities of the different embodiments having been described so far for the different parts of the body mobilization devices 1, 301 and 401, it is understood that these different embodiments can be combined with each other to give rise to new modes production of body mobilization devices, functionally similar to the devices 1, 301 and 401.
• the stabilizing member of the device such as the stabilizing members 30, 130, 330 and 430, can be arranged to adapt to balloons having different respective diameters; in other words, by means of ad hoc arrangements, the stabilization member is advantageously adjustable to the size of the ball 10 or 410 actually used within the body mobilization device, this adjustment being made in particular before the actual use of the device by the user; and or
• the frame of the device such as the 20 or 320 or 420 frame
• the frame of the device can be provided with attachments for elastic bands designed to be tensioned by the user when the latter uses the device as described above; in this way, user II can exercise his upper limbs at the same time as the other parts of his body, mentioned above.

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