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Title:
MUSCLE TRAINING DEVICE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE WALKING ABILITY
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010240182
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To develop a muscle training device designed to improve the walking ability.

A leg press machine is well known as one of the muscle training device. However, the direction of its exercise is worked only on a single plane (sagittal plane) and, when the treatment of a rehabilitation, especially the improvement in the walking ability, is expected, the three-dimensional exercise (spiral movement) added with the rotary movement of the hip joints as well as the leg extension exercise becomes an extremely important. Consequently, a lower leg sliding function and a lower leg rotating exercise function are newly attached to the conventional leg press machine to construct a system which simultaneously performs external and internal rotation exercises of the hip joints while extending the legs. This system can thus achieve the muscle training of the lower legs in a state close to the actual walking movement to exert effective results on the improvement in the gait.


Inventors:
KATO HIROSHI
Application Number:
JP2009092646A
Publication Date:
October 28, 2010
Filing Date:
April 07, 2009
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Assignee:
KATO HIROSHI
International Classes:
A63B23/04; A61H1/02