Rehabilitation device and its use for exercising the shoulder region
AssigneeDavid Health Solutions Ltd.
InventorsTapio Taivainen, Johannes Hautamäki, Arno Parviainen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a rehabilitation device adapted for rehabilitating and/or exercising the shoulder region, as well as to the use of such a rehabilitation device. The rehabilitation device has support elements (3, 4, 5) enabling the upright position of the upper body during the exercise, two motion shafts (2) guiding the motion in a pre-defined direction of motion, and two handleless arm supports (1) attached to the end of each motion shaft and arranged to support the arms of the user, preventing activation of the muscles carrying the arm.
Claims5
A rehabilitation device adapted for rehabilitating a shoulder region of a user, the rehabilitation device comprising:
- a frame;
- support elements coupled to the frame and configured to enable an upright position of an upper body of the user during a rehabilitation exercise;
- two motion shafts configured to guide motion of an arm of a user in a pre-defined direction, and wherein the motion shafts are arranged such that an axis of each motion shaft
- is arranged to tilt inwards toward a plane (Y) passing through a centerline of the rehabilitating device;
- two handleless arm supports attached to an end of each motion shaft, configured to carry arms of a user, and configured to support the arms of a user;
- wherein the device is configured so that at the beginning of a rehabilitation exercise, each arm of a user is in a position straightened forward in front of the user at a 80 to 90 degree angle from the body of the user;
- and
- wherein the device is configured so that at an end position of the rehabilitation exercise each arm of a user has been moved to a position wherein the arm forms a 120 to 130 degree angle α with a plane travelling through a vertical midline of the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.