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WO1994008664A1 - Appareil et procede pour effectuer des exercices d'equilibre - Google Patents

Appareil et procede pour effectuer des exercices d'equilibre Download PDF

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WO1994008664A1
WO1994008664A1 PCT/US1992/001767 US9201767W WO9408664A1 WO 1994008664 A1 WO1994008664 A1 WO 1994008664A1 US 9201767 W US9201767 W US 9201767W WO 9408664 A1 WO9408664 A1 WO 9408664A1
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Robert Samuel Smith
Gary Edward Tuthill
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Gary Edward Tuthill
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B21/00—Exercising apparatus for developing or strengthening the muscles or joints of the body by working against a counterforce, with or without measuring devices
    • A63B21/0004—Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B22/00—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility or co-ordination of movements
    • A63B22/18—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility or co-ordination of movements with elements, i.e. platforms, having a circulating, nutating or rotating movement, generated by oscillating movement of the user, e.g. platforms wobbling on a centrally arranged spherical support
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B22/00—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility or co-ordination of movements
    • A63B22/0025—Particular aspects relating to the orientation of movement paths of the limbs relative to the body; Relative relationship between the movements of the limbs
    • A63B2022/0033—Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2208/00—Characteristics or parameters related to the user or player
    • A63B2208/12—Characteristics or parameters related to the user or player specially adapted for children

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  • TECHNICAL FIELD This invention relates to an appartus and method of rehabilitating and training a user in the execution of a wide range of motions including those associated with athletics, child development, exercises for invalids, older people recovering from operations, etc. by the performance of exercises that promote development of the proprioceptors.
  • the human body has three kind of sense organs that are necessary for performance.
  • One kind is the exteroceptor which enables the body to be conscious of stimuli that are outside the body — sound, sight, smell and touch.
  • a second kind is the interoceptors which are found in the mucous linings of the respiratory and digestive tract. These organs enable the body to to be conscious of activities inside the body such as the sensation of swallowing food, taking a breath, etc.
  • a third kind is the proprioceptors which are sensors that enable the human to maintain balance, develop motor skills, etc.
  • proprioceptors are located in the skeletal muscle, tendons, blood vessels, and the gastronomical wall.
  • a muscle proprioceptor comprises the end of a sensory nerve wrapped around the muscle fibers that detect expansion and contraction of the enclosed muscle and transmit appropriate messages to the brain.
  • the proprioceptor sends information to the central nervous system concerning the position of the arms and legs in relation to their surroundigs.
  • Proprioceptors develop by training but once trained, they function on a subconscious level. For example, a baby has to make a conscious effort to lift a spoon to his mouth but once this simple motor skill is learned, this task is performed subconsciously for the rest of his life.
  • Proprioceptors respond to vibration, position, movement, pressure, touch and weight. Proprioceptive learning has been found to play an important role in strength increases associated with strength development programs. If a muscle is tested in an unaccustomed positon, the strength of the muscle is diminished even though the angle of pull is very carefully standardized.
  • Proprioceptive training has been incorporated in the regimen of physical education as routines of complex motions known as the PNF TECHNIQUE (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation).
  • Conventional methods of development can include rope skipping, horseback riding, beam balance, simple gymnastics, etc.
  • the regimen that is selected depends on the many purposes for which the routines are intended. These can include early stages of child development, conditioning for seniors of most any age especially after recovering from surgery, athletes in intensive training in all sports and rehabilitation following injury.
  • the PNF techniques that are applied by the prior art are generally of a random non-quantitative character.
  • weight lifting has a quanitative character because a lifter can measure his improvement by the amount of weight that he lifts, a runner can measure his time to run a distance, etc. Examples of
  • “quanitative proprioceptor exercise” would include shooting a basketball, throwing a baseball or bowling. However, it is not possible to relate improvement in the performance of these exercises to development of a specific motor group using methods of the prior art.
  • Examples of apparatus that are used to practice balancing skill include 1,565,484 to Mc. Whirter which discloses a threaded rod screwed into the center of a disk. The construction of the device conceals the threaded rod and the user has no way of measuring his improvement in balancing skill.
  • U. S. Patent 4,653,748 to Seel et al is for a platform supported on the flat side of a hemisphere.
  • the spherical surface of the hemisphere is in contact with the floor.
  • the user stands on one foot in the center of the platform, he tilts the platform in an arbitrary direction until the periphery touches the floor.
  • the periphery of the platform is contoured such that the maximum angle of tilt in any direction has been selected to accomodate die range of flexure of the ankle in that direction.
  • This device offers no means for changing the difficulty of balance.
  • U. S. Patent 4,463,946 to Wallace et al is for a see saw balance on which the user stands and attempts to maintain the see saw in a horizontal position. When the see saw tips, a signal is emitted and the time required to regain balance is measured as an indication of the fitness of the user, the device is not designed to improve balancing skill by- providing the means for increasing the degree of difficulty of balance.
  • French Patent 2,288,539 to Lecal is for a "rocking horse type toy with seat adjustable on a column”. The device does not develop the balancing skills associated with the lower extremities.
  • German Patent 2871 71 to Burgdorf is for a threaded rod screwed into a blind hole in a platform on which the user stands. There is no means for changing or means for measuring the difficulty of maintaining balance by a user standing on the platform, balance.
  • Another object is to provide a means and method to rehabilitate persons suffering from injuries to the spine and lower limbs that, in many cases, are far more effective than the methods of the prior art.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide an apparatus with which the user can quantitatively monitor his progress in developing balancing skills.
  • This invention is directed toward a method of training proprioceptors by performing exercises using an apparatus that improves one's balancing skills.
  • this invention is a square platform of an appropriate material, — wood, plastic, metal- that has a length and width of fourteen to twenty inches.
  • a threaded rod is screwed into a hole in the center of the platform so that the rod extends perpendicularly from both sides of the platform.
  • a knob is attached to one end of the threaded rod.
  • a spirit level may also be secured along one edge of the board indicating the angle of tilt that the platform makes with the horizontal;. The platform is placed with the knob on the floor and the user stands on the uppermost side of the platform, attempting to balance himself and the platform on the knob.
  • the threaded rod has indicia printed on its side indicating the distance from the floor to the platform (i. e., length of the extension of the platform from the disk).
  • the indicia is a quantitative measure of the difficulty of balance.
  • the user is thereby enabled to make controlled increases in the difficulty of balancing and is able to measure his improvement.
  • a spirit level is secured along an edge of the platform indicating the angle of tilt of the platform.
  • a second platform preferably a disk, is mounted through its center on the threaded rod between the knob and the uppermost platform. This intermediate disk serves as an adjaustable stop for limiting the maximum angle of tilt which is especially useful when the length of rod between the uppermost disk and floor has become large as the users skill increases.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the threaded rod through the platform.
  • Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is an embodiment where the threaded rod is in sections.
  • Fig. 4 shows the method of using the invention.
  • Fig. 5 shows a second platform acting as an adjustable stop on the tilt angle.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates variability of difficulty of balance of the invention.
  • fig. 1 shows a perspective view
  • fig. 2 shows an cross sectional view of a balancing platform of this invention which includes a square platform 10, a threaded rod 12 screwed through the center of the platform 10, and a knob 14 attached to one end of the rod 12.
  • a handle 16 may be attached to the other end of the rod 12.
  • Indicia 18 is displayed along the threaded rod indicating the length of the extension of the rod through the platform.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 also show a spirit level 20 attached along an edge of the platform.
  • the spirit level 20 includes a tube 22 supported on the curved surface of a base 24.
  • the tube is contains a liquid with a bubble.
  • the tube is curved on an arc whose plane is perpendicular to the surface of the platform so that, when the platform is tilted from horizontal to a slanted position, the position of the bubble indicates the angle of the slant.
  • Fig. 3 shows an embodiment in which the extensions to the threaded rod are added to increase the height between the platform and the ground.
  • An extension is shown in fig. 3 to include a bar 27 with an external thread 26 on one end and an internal thread 29 on the other end so that extensions can be screwed together end to end.
  • Fig. 4 shows the manner in which the disk is used.
  • the knob 14 is placed on the floor.
  • the user 19 is shown standing on the platform 10 balanced on the knob 14.
  • the indicia 16 indicates the degree of difficulty in balancing on the platform 10.
  • the user 19 performs one exercise by shifting his weight from one foot to the other causing the platform to change its angle of tilt and the bubble in the level to shift back and forth.
  • the user stands on the platform and successively touches one corner after another, of the platform to the floor by shifting his weight. Shifting the weight can be accomplished by a combination of bending the knees and ankles.
  • Fig. 5 shows an embodiment in which a disk 11 has been mounted through its center on the threaded rod 12 providing an adjustable stop that prevents the tilt angle from exceeding a predetermined value.
  • This embodiment is especially useful in aiding the user to mount the uppermost platform 10 when the length, L, of rod 12 between the upper ⁇ most platform 10 and floor is large.
  • Difficulty of balance may be defined as the horizontal displacement of the platform vs. angle of tilt of the platform.
  • the user detects unbalance by detecting uneven weight under his feet as the board tilts from horizontal. When unbalance occurs, the user must shift his weight back in the direction to cause the platform to tilt back to horizontal and the further he must shift his weight, for a given angle of tilt, the greater is the difficulty.
  • fig. 6 which is an elevation view of the platform 10 and rod 12
  • the crux of the invention is a platform on which a user may stand and balance himself in which the difficulty of balance may be controlled by setting the distance of the platform above the floor.
  • a spirit level attached to the platform displays the angle of tilt and enables the user to measure his proficiency in performing certain exercises.
  • Other embodiments of the invention may occur to the reader after reading this specification which are within the scope of the invention.
  • the platform may be a disk.
  • the platform surface may be imprinted with indicia indicating preferred placement of feet, etc. I therefore wish the scope of my invention to be defined by the appended claims and in view of the specification if need be.

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Abstract

Dispositif permettant d'effectuer des exercices d'équilibre comprenant une plate-forme (10) et une tige (12) filetée et vissée perpendiculairement à la plate-forme. Une extrémité de la tige (12) est placée sur le sol et l'utilisateur se tient debout sur la plate-forme et essaye de maintenir en équilibre la plate-forme (maintien de la plate-forme dans une position horizontale). Une seconde plate-forme montée sur la tige filetée entre la plate-forme supérieure et le sol peut être positionné de manière réglable pour limiter l'angle d'inclinaison. Un niveau à bulle (24) agencé sur la plate-forme supérieure affiche l'angle d'inclinaison. La position de la plate-forme supérieure sur la tige détermine la difficulté d'équilibre. Des chiffres (18) se trouvant sur la tige filetée indiquent la distance entre la plate-forme et le sol, et représentent la difficulté d'équilibre.
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US5897474A (en) * 1998-02-05 1999-04-27 Romero; Ron Richard Balancing and exercising device
US6315695B1 (en) 2000-01-18 2001-11-13 Michael R. Follett Tri-planar controller motion rehabilitation and exercise platform
WO2003068328A1 (fr) * 2002-02-12 2003-08-21 Franz-Josef Resel Appareil d'entrainement permettant d'ameliorer le sens de l'equilibre
WO2008014533A1 (fr) * 2006-08-03 2008-02-07 Mft Multifunktionale Trainingsgeräte Gmbh Appareil d'entraînement de l'équilibre
US7601107B2 (en) 2004-08-09 2009-10-13 Tate Maloy Training device for exercising muscle groups of the entire body

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US3690655A (en) * 1968-06-21 1972-09-12 Richard L Chapman A manually operable cantilevered type exercising device
CH528273A (de) * 1971-02-26 1972-09-30 Atout Ag Ubungsgerät
FR2288539A1 (fr) * 1974-01-15 1976-05-21 Lecal Roger Jouet porteur a effet excentrique
US4819935A (en) * 1985-04-12 1989-04-11 Dirksing John L Training bat for ball games

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US3690655A (en) * 1968-06-21 1972-09-12 Richard L Chapman A manually operable cantilevered type exercising device
CH528273A (de) * 1971-02-26 1972-09-30 Atout Ag Ubungsgerät
FR2288539A1 (fr) * 1974-01-15 1976-05-21 Lecal Roger Jouet porteur a effet excentrique
US4819935A (en) * 1985-04-12 1989-04-11 Dirksing John L Training bat for ball games

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5897474A (en) * 1998-02-05 1999-04-27 Romero; Ron Richard Balancing and exercising device
US6315695B1 (en) 2000-01-18 2001-11-13 Michael R. Follett Tri-planar controller motion rehabilitation and exercise platform
WO2003068328A1 (fr) * 2002-02-12 2003-08-21 Franz-Josef Resel Appareil d'entrainement permettant d'ameliorer le sens de l'equilibre
US7601107B2 (en) 2004-08-09 2009-10-13 Tate Maloy Training device for exercising muscle groups of the entire body
US7658700B2 (en) 2004-08-09 2010-02-09 Tate Maloy Training device for exercising muscle groups of the entire body
WO2008014533A1 (fr) * 2006-08-03 2008-02-07 Mft Multifunktionale Trainingsgeräte Gmbh Appareil d'entraînement de l'équilibre

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