Portable, ergonomic, upper limb and shoulder rotator exercise apparatus with patient assist, muscular energy measurement method
First Claim
1. An upper limb and shoulder exercise board device having, in combination:
- a polygonal shaped assemblage consisting of three flat sheets, a thin top sheet, a middle sheet and a bottom close out sheet, with said sheets'"'"' frontal edges forming an ergonomic fit with the patient'"'"'s abdomen;
upon which said top sheet'"'"'surface an exercise disk is slidably moved in universally lateral directed paths by force of hand;
which force is equal to an opposing, magnetically induced frictional force of resistance by attracted, internal permanent magnets sliding along the under side of the said top sheet;
said directed paths being generally along circuitous, lateral indicia paths;
the said assemblage further consisting of internal bounding features which laterally contain the said flat permanent magnets between the said top sheet and a bottom sheet, said magnets being constrained at the extremes of lateral travel by boarders formed by the inward edges of a middle sheet.
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Abstract
An exercise board sized to the patient'"'"'s abdominal area provides for maximum lateral range extension of the shoulder rotator and limb musculoskeletal system. A ferrous loaded exercise disk on top of a flat surface sheet is magnetically coupled to permanent magnets housed below in a laterally free space to establish a magnetically induced lateral frictional resistance against the patient'"'"'s lateral force on the disk anywhere on the plane of the surface sheet. An incline exercise apparatus is formed by combining the board with an incline stand and a rope, pulley and pull ring, allowing a patient'"'"'s good limb to assist in rehabilitating the acutely impaired limb, as from stroke, shoulder rotator damage, or surgery. Circuitous indicia paths, some with obstacles for the disk, provide a method for the determination the patient'"'"'s range performance and energy expended.
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13 Claims
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1. An upper limb and shoulder exercise board device having, in combination:
- a polygonal shaped assemblage consisting of three flat sheets, a thin top sheet, a middle sheet and a bottom close out sheet, with said sheets'"'"' frontal edges forming an ergonomic fit with the patient'"'"'s abdomen;
upon which said top sheet'"'"'surface an exercise disk is slidably moved in universally lateral directed paths by force of hand;
which force is equal to an opposing, magnetically induced frictional force of resistance by attracted, internal permanent magnets sliding along the under side of the said top sheet;
said directed paths being generally along circuitous, lateral indicia paths;
the said assemblage further consisting of internal bounding features which laterally contain the said flat permanent magnets between the said top sheet and a bottom sheet, said magnets being constrained at the extremes of lateral travel by boarders formed by the inward edges of a middle sheet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
- a polygonal shaped assemblage consisting of three flat sheets, a thin top sheet, a middle sheet and a bottom close out sheet, with said sheets'"'"' frontal edges forming an ergonomic fit with the patient'"'"'s abdomen;
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