Self-administered back massage

• US 7,087,004 B1
• Filed: 07/03/2000
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Massagemaster.Net, LLC
• Original Assignee: Michael N. Berke
• Inventors: Berke, Michael N.
• Primary Examiner(s): BAKER, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US09/609,166
• Time in Patent Office: 2,227 Days
• Field of Search: 601/97, 601/115, 601/116, 601/118, 601/112, 601/124, 601/125, 601/128, 601/131, 601/136, 601/137, 601/63, 601/94, 601/99, 601/102, 482/904, 482/91, 482/132, 482/136, 482/148, 482 38- 40, 482/62, D21/665
• US Class Current: 482/136
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2203/0406 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/081 Back
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/002 by rubbing or brushing

Abstract

A massaging device which is straddled over the doorstop of a door opening at an elevated location coincident with a hard-to-reach back area and held in place by the leaning weight of a user moving back and forth and up an down permitting a self-administered back massage.

Claims

1. A self-administered back massage method practiced in a transverse plane of a doorway and applied to an individual by leaning contact against a semi-spherical configured massaging device, an improvement consisting of a method of facilitating and establishing said leaning contact between said massaging device and a selected back area of said individual is oriented transversely to the plane of the doorway thereby increasing the massaging pressure applied at the interface of the device and the selected area of the individual, said method comprising the steps of:

a) providing a positioning site for a back massage device, said site including a door frame having two opposite side walls bounding there between a vertical plane of a doorway opening and including a door stop,

b) providing a massaging device comprising a base having a front and rear surface, a plurality of semi-spherical projections extending from a front surface of said base, a vertical notch in said base rear surface consisting of a cooperating pair of side walls bounding a positioning recess there between,

c) positioning said massaging device in a transverse relation to a vertically oriented rectangular strip disposed flat against said one side wall of said door frame and having projected in said positioning recess a vertical strip normally serving as a stop for a pivotal traverse of a door mounted in said doorway opening plane limiting said massaging device to linear tracking movement along said door stop vertical strip and prohibited by abutment of said recess side walls against said door stop vertical strip from partaking of movement in transverse relation to said linear tracking,

d) positioning an individual in said plane of said doorway,

e) establishing leaning engagement of an individual against said positioned massaging device as outlined in step (c),

f) instructing an individual to supplement said established leaning engagement by pushing against the opposite side wall of said doorway to cause linear movement of the individual in the direction of said massaging device,

whereby said linear movement contributes to adjusting the position of said massaging device to a back area of a user and said absence of said transverse movement as might result from transverse bodily movements while maintaining said engagement without slippage at an interface of said semi-spherical configurations of said massage device with a back area of a user contributes to maximizing the self-administered massaging service of said massaging device.