Cold therapy foot massager

• US 7,112,178 B1
• Filed: 08/10/2004
• Issued: 09/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nancy Jean Roozenburg
• Original Assignee: Nancy Jean Roozenburg
• Inventors: Roozenburg, Nancy Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US10/915,062
• Time in Patent Office: 777 Days
• Field of Search: 601/15, 601/18, 601/19, 601/22, 601/84, 601/121, 601/134, 482104-108, 482/33, 482/49, 482/50, 482/131, 482/132, 606/237, 606/240
• US Class Current: 601/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/0266 Foot
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2015/0007 with balls or rollers rotating about their own axis
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0214 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0242 by a fluid circulating in the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/025 by direct air flow on the patient's body
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0257 by a heat accumulator, e.g. a sand or liquid reservoir
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/12 Feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4033 Handles, pedals, bars or platforms
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/10 for feet or toes

Abstract

A manual cold therapy foot massage device, which consists of a long cylindrical rod that is hollow in nature. Two rollers connected to each end of the cylindrical rod are wider in diameter than the cylindrical rod allowing the device to roll back and forth easily over a flat surface while being used. The cylindrical rod is filled with a non-freezable gel and wrapped with a flexible reusable cold compress that is also gel filled. The device can be placed in the freezer to reduce the gel filled cylinder and cold compress to freezing temperatures and removed for treatment to provide an ice therapy massage for the bottom of the foot or other affected areas.

Claims

1. A method for treating pain and swelling in an injured area of a foot, said method being performed using a device comprising in combination two rollers and a body, said rollers being cylindrical in nature attached perpendicularly to each end of said body, said body, being cylindrical in shape is smaller in diameter than said rollers, said body defining a cavity therein, said cavity containing a gel material, further comprising a cold compress, said cold compress having a soft, flexible surface and a plurality of sections, said sections including two upper sections and two lower sections, said two upper sections being smaller than said two lower sections, said cold compress being divided into said sections to prevent a gel material contained in each section from sliding from one end to the other end of said cold compress, said cold compress is wrapped around the body twice, with the two upper smaller sections being wrapped around the body first and the two larger sections being wrapped around the body afterwards, the method comprising the steps of:

a. storing the device in a freezer in order to reduce the gel material contained in the body cavity and cold compress sections to a temperature at or below freezing;

b. removing the device from the freezer;

c. placing the device on a flat surface and positioning the injured area of the foot on said soft, flexible surface and said upper and lower sections of said cold compress, said soft, flexible surface of said cold compress allowing it to conform to the surface of the injured area of the foot, slowly rolling the device back and forth over the injured area to provide an active therapy to reduce pain and swelling of the injured area through cold therapy while simultaneously providing a gentle massage to the injured area.