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Title:
REHABILITATION MACHINE CAPABLE OF MEASURING FOOT AND LOW BACK MUSCLES
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012035014
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To solve the conventional problem in which instruments for rehabilitation or muscle measurement of a person with reduced foot and low back muscles such as a person in a wheelchair are rare.

In the rehabilitation machine, a care-receiver gets on the machine as in a wheelchair, and a caregiver puts a double-bottom athletic shoe F exclusive for rehabilitation at a tip of a balance flat square bar D on the foot of the care-receiver. A reel DR and a weight EW are disposed at a tip of the bar which is symmetric to the shoe, and a thread TBW of the reel is connected to a belt TB at the knee joint of the care-receiver while being wound on a pulley SSk which is located above. The thread TBW, the balance flat square bar D and the foot are continuously connected in a circular shape, and the care-receiver is stood while being suspended in a suspending water bath VX, whereby the care-receiver can step using his/her own foot muscles by the weight EW of the continued circle.


Inventors:
NAKAJIMA HIDEO
Application Number:
JP2010180688A
Publication Date:
February 23, 2012
Filing Date:
August 12, 2010
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NAKAJIMA HIDEO
International Classes:
A61B5/22; A61G5/00; A63B23/00; A63B23/04; A63B23/08; G01L5/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2011036507A2011-02-24
JP2006296714A2006-11-02
JP2006296713A2006-11-02
JP2003319984A2003-11-11
JP2003319983A2003-11-11
JP2003319923A2003-11-11
Foreign References:
WO2009084387A12009-07-09
WO2005096939A12005-10-20