Exercise stretch bench for back pain treatment

• US 7,087,005 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2003
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mark Rouillard
• Original Assignee: Mark Rouillard
• Inventors: Rouillard, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): BAKER, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/404,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20040198572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 482/142, 482/148, 482/907, 482/96, 482/140, 606/241, D21/686, D21/690, 602/32
• US Class Current: 482/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/0292 for the spinal column A61H1/0218 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2023/006 for stretching exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/02 for the abdomen, the spinal column or the torso muscles related to shoulders (e.g. chest muscles)
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0211 moving torso with immobilized lower limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0233 Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch

Abstract

A handgrip and leg brace assembly is located over a horizontal bench portion of a stretch bench that receives and supports a user'"'"'s upper torso. The handgrip is adjustable in the horizontal and vertical planes as stretching exercises are on-going and without the user leaving the bench proper. Additional bench adjustments provide an individualized height setting, and these combined adjustments allow the bench to be personalized for each given individual in order to increase the effectiveness of certain on-the-bench stretching activities.

Claims

1. An adjustable horizontal exercise stretch bench for relieving spinal and muscle conditions contributing to back pain comprising:

a support platform having a set of wheels for movement of said platform in a horizontal plane,

a torso support board and a knee support board movably attached to said support platform, said torso support board and said knee support board extending in a horizontal plane above said support platform, where said knee support board depends downwardly at an angle from one end of said torso support board,

means for moving, in a vertical plane, said torso support board and said knee support board relative to said support platform, said means for moving extending downwardly from a bottom surface of said torso support board and extending upwardly from a top surface of said support platform,

a handgrip extending above said support board, said handgrip including means for extension in a vertical plane, said means for extension in a vertical plane comprising a first hollow square tube attached to a front side of a rectangular support plate at a first end of said torso support board opposite said knee support board, said support plate is attached at a second side to a rectangular support bar at said end of said torso support board opposite said knee support board,

a first apertured post slidably engages said first hollow tube, said handgrip further including means for extension in a horizontal plane, said means for extension in a horizontal plane comprising a second hollow square tube attached to a top end of said first apertured post and a second apertured post slidably engaging said second hollow square tube, said handgrip further includes a gripper bar and a leg brace attached to one end of said second apertured post, said gripper bar and said leg brace having hand grips on opposing ends thereof,

a plurality of posts for selectively engaging said apertured posts.