Vibratory massage apparatus

A vibratory massage apparatus comprising

• a support means;
• treating means eleastically supported on said support means for treating the user's affected body part;
• vibration generating means held on the support means and including a motor for generating a vibratory motion which is transmitted to said treating means;
• a vibratory plate carrying said treating means;
• first spring means elastically coupling said vibratory plate to said support means;
• second spring means elastically coupling said vibration generating means to said vibratory plate;
• said vibratory plate, said vibration generating means and said first and second spring means defining a vibration system in which said vibratory plate is vibrated at a frequency close to a natural frequency of said vibration system;
• and
• a controlling means electrically connected to said motor for controlling said vibratory motion by cyclically varying its vibration amplitude;
• said controlling means including a first means for actuating said motor to produce a vibratory motion at a relatively smaller amplitude, a second means for actuating said motor to produce vibratory motion at a relatively larger amplitude, and means for actuating said first and second means immediately succeedingly and for imposing a halt period of zero amplitude immediately following the actuation of said second means to produce cyclical vibratory pattern comprising immediately succeeding periods of smaller, larger and zero vibratory amplitudes.