Massage device

A massage device for massaging a body part of a person in an unsupervised and unattended setting, said massage device comprising:

• a garment for enclosing the body part, the garment having a plurality of bladders arranged along the garment to massage the body part, each of said bladders substantially encircling a portion of the body part;
• and
• an inflation assembly which supplies fluid pressure to each of the bladders to inflate the respective bladders;
• wherein the garment includes a pocket along substantially the entire length of at least one lateral side of the garment having an opening communicating with the respective bladders and wherein the inflation assembly including a source of inflation fluid and a plurality of tubes extending from this source into the pocket, and wherein,
• at least two of the bladders have different lengths, but have approximately the same volume.

A massage device for massaging a body part of a person in an unsupervised and unattended setting, said massage device comprising:

• a garment for enclosing the body part, the garment having a plurality of bladders arranged along the garment to massage the body part, each of said bladders substantially encircling a portion of the body part;
• and
• an inflation assembly which selectively inflates and deflates the bladders;
• wherein, during deflation of the bladders, the inflation fluid flows through exhaust lines and wherein at least some of the exhaust lines include a throttling device, at least two of the bladders have different lengths, but have approximately the same volume.

A massage device for massaging a body part of a person in an unsupervised and unattended setting, said massage device comprising:

• a garment for enclosing the body part, the garment having a plurality of bladders arranged along the garment to massage the body part, each of said bladders substantially encircling a portion of the body part when in use;
• and
• an inflation assembly which supplies fluid pressure to each of the bladders to inflate the respective bladders;
• wherein,
• at least two of the bladders have different lengths but have substantially the same volume, and wherein at least one side of the longer bladder is provided with a necking seam to substantially equalize the bladder volumes.

A massage device for use in an unsupervised and unattended setting, the massage device comprising:

• an inflatable garment having a plurality of inflation bladders to apply pressure to a body part wherein at least some of the bladders have a different length and each of the bladders has approximately the same inflated volume;
• an inflation assembly for providing pressurized fluid to the bladders to the respective bladders;
• and
• means for equalizing inflation volume of each of the bladders.