Neck muscle exerciser and method of assessing neck muscle performance
OwnerTheodore Henry Versteeghinventor
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Abstract
Training neck muscles in such a way as to improve responsiveness to head acceleration forces, and to help prevent concussion and/or screening subjects who are at high risk of concussion, especially from contact sports or military activities, may be accomplished by a device and/or method of training that incorporates an adjustable centripetal force about a fixed axis on the head. The centripetal force may be adjusted through varying the weight and/or length of a force arm, and neck muscle performance may be measured by a number of revolutions of the force arm completed over a set time period or a time required to complete a pre-determined number of revolutions of the force arm.
Claims8
A neck muscle exercising device comprising:
- a rigid element having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a mount on which the rigid element is rotatably mounted proximate the proximal end of the rigid element, the rigid element rotatable around a central axis, the rigid element extending radially from the central axis and at least the distal end of the rigid element extends perpendicular to the central axis;
- a weight located on the rigid element to define an off-central-axis center of mass;
- and,
- headwear to which the mount is attached, wherein rotational motion of the headwear causes the rigid element to revolve around the central axis,
- wherein said weight is unitary with the rigid element,
- wherein said weight increases in weight along at least part of said rigid element from the proximal end towards the distal end of the rigid element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.