Dynamic neck muscle exerciser
OwnerYaron River, Itzhak Pomerantz +1inventors
InventorsYaron River, Itzhak Pomerantz, Erez Bachar
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Abstract
The present invention may be embodied as a system or method for dynamically exercising a user's neck muscles. The system includes a headset, an arm attached thereto, a weight, and at least one motor to move the weight, for example, about the arm. The weight may be mounted eccentrically on a radial track that is rotatable by one motor and moved linearly by another motor. The direction of the arm, the distance between an apex of the headset and the weight, the eccentricity of the weight on the axis, and the speed of rotation of the motor are all parameters that can be adjusted by the caregiver or user, either manually or via controlling software.
Claims14
A neck muscle exercise system comprising:
- a headset;
- a rigid arm mounted on the headset;
- and
- a motor mounted on the rigid arm, the motor enabling the rigid arm to apply a periodically-changing moment to the headset;
- wherein the moment is generated by a radial and azimuthal moving weight.
A method for exercising neck muscles of a patient comprising:
- a. providing a helmet with an arm configured to turn between predetermined angles around an essentially vertical axis;
- b. mounting the helmet on a patient's head;
- c. providing a weight on the rotating arm configured to slide radially between pre-determined radii;
- d. sliding the weight in a trajectory along the rotating arm;
- e. rotating the arm in a trajectory around the axis;
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- f. monitoring the orientation of the helmet in space while rotating the arm and sliding the weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.