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Therapeutic exercise apparatuses

OwnerRoss Dauteriveinventor

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Abstract

Exercise apparatus for use by handicapped persons for exercising their hips and legs. In one embodiment, an apparatus with a supporting structure and a seat mounted on the supporting structure. A cushion comprising a pad for splaying the knees of a user is mounted on the supporting structure. In another embodiment, there is a docking station suitably adapted for wheelchair users with a supporting structure protruding therefrom. A cushion is mounted on the protrusion for splaying the knees of the user. In yet another embodiment, a semispherical shaped seat is mounted on a supporting structure that can be adjusted to position a user near a handlebar structure with a supporting structure protruding therefrom. A cushion is mounted for splaying the knees of the user. Optionally, the cushions in the example embodiments may further comprise a patella pad. A knee spreader ball detached from the exercise apparatus permits training without the fixed cushion and, in a further form permits transport of a user without tangling the feet of the user.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An exercise apparatus comprising:

a base member having a longitudinal axis;
an upstanding support member extending from the base member at a first position on the longitudinal axis;
a seat mounted relative to the upstanding support member, the seat being configured to support the buttocks of an associated user of the exercise apparatus relative to the base member;
a handrail extending from the base member and including a grippable portion located above the seat at a second position on the longitudinal axis spaced from the first position on the longitudinal axis;
a cushion operatively attached with the seat and being configured to engage the legs of the associated user of the exercise apparatus, the cushion being selectively movable relative to the seat in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis;
and,
stirrups mounted on the base in a spaced apart relationship on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the base member, the stirrups being configured to hold the feet of the associated user of the exercise apparatus in a substantially fixed relationship relative to the base member so that the knees of the associated user are splayed out by the cushion while using the apparatus by selectively gripping on the grippable portion of the handrail and moving relative to the seat by standing and sitting.

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An exercise apparatus comprising:

a base member having a longitudinal axis;
an upstanding support member extending from the base member at a first position on the longitudinal axis;
a cushion operatively attached with the support member and being configured to engage the legs of an associated user of the exercise apparatus, the cushion being located relative to the support member at a second position on the longitudinal axis;
a handrail extending from the base member and including a grippable portion located above the cushion at a third position on the longitudinal axis spaced from the first and second positions on the longitudinal axis;
a user support member operatively coupled with the base member and adapted to rest stably on an associated support surface, the user support member being disposed at a fourth position on the longitudinal axis spaced from the second position opposite the first position and having spaced apart longitudinal foot support sections extending substantially in parallel with the longitudinal axis, each of the foot support sections for receiving a foot of the associated user in a substantially fixed relationship relative to the user support member while the associated user is positioned adjacent the exercise apparatus so that the knees of the associated user are splayed out by the cushion while using the apparatus by the associated user selectively gripping on the grippable portion of the handrail and moving by standing and sitting relative to the user support member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/705,263Filed 12 Feb 2010 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Feb 2009
Published: US 2010/0204027 A112 Aug 2010
Granted: 28 Jun 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification27 codes

A61F 5/0116
For the feet or ankles: for connecting the feet to each other or to fixed surroundings
A63B 23/0494
For lower limbs: primarily by articulating the knee joints
A61F 5/3715
Restraining devices for the body or for body parts; Restraining shirts: for attaching the limbs to other parts of the body
A61H 1/024
For the lower limbs: knee