Abstract:
A combination athletic trainer/walker for exercising a user's lower body, while giving the user independence of an assistant while walking. The wheeled legs, and attached frame is comprised of heavily padded sides. The frame work is vertically adjustable such that a front bar is positioned at the height of the user's rib cage. The front bar detaches, and is lowered to allow a user to enter and is then attached with a crotch strap between user's legs and reattached. The padded seat is positioned, initially at a standing height and progressively lowered to slightly below a 90 degree angle of a user's knee flexion, when finishing use of the machine. The telescopic horizontal legs are adjusted to an appropriate length to provide muscle strengthening resistance. Adjustment of the vertical legs controls the height of the frame work. Wheels are provided for movement of the frame over a floor, and the two front wheels are of swivel type allowing the user to turn in any direction. The two rear wheels are permanently fixed in a straight position so as to secure the back end from free rotation to the left or right. Brake plate assemblies are provided on all four wheels with the two rear having brake pegs to immobilize the unit when the user is seated.
Abstract:
An exerciser for disabled persons has a seat-footrest-arm support system that is driven by a motor and an offset crank drive. This drive works to move the seat and footrest in opposite directions, i.e., when the seat is down, the footrest is up and vice versa. This allows patient to go from a compressed state to a fully extended state during each crank cycle. By securing the patient's arms to stationary support bars, the arms are also similarly flexed and extended during the cycle. The device has speed control to operate at reasonable speeds during the workout. A second embodiment of the invention uses VELCRO covered mitts to secure the patient's hands to a VELCRO covered leg strap. In this way, the patient's arms will follow the movement of the patient's legs.
Abstract:
A combination collapsible chair and walker device aids a handicapped user to move and to exercise in an independent manner. The device has a pair of upstanding complementary frame members laterally spaced apart from each other and connected by a two-part connecting tubular crossbar at its top front portion. Arm rests are attached to the frame for engaging the arm pits of the user. The device includes a swinging gate at its rear portion to allow a user to enter the device when raised. The gate is lowered when the device is in use to add structural integrity to the top and to provide for greater safety to the user by preventing the user from falling backwards out of the device. The frame members are mounted on a stable two-part wide base ring which is supported on swivel-type casters. A seat is mounted on the frame members and is formed of two hinged connected panels whereby the seat may be folded in half. The two-part connecting tubular member, the two-part wide base ring and the two hinged connected seat panels permit the device to be compactly collapsed for easy storage.
Abstract:
An improved walker in which a gate which is pivoted on one rear leg for movement from an open position to a closed position at which it engages a fitting carried by the other rear leg, supports a seat for pivotal movement from a raised inoperative position to a lowered operative position. An element operative in the lowered position of the seat prevents the gate from moving to an open position. Interengageable elements operative in the open position of the gate prevent the seat from being lowered.
Abstract:
The racing speed training method uses a support device attached to a belt, harness or seat which encircles or supports some portion of the runner's body. The support device can be freestanding or can be attached to a propulsion means for road or track training. The supports are adjustable and are releasably attached by clips or the like to a belt or harness around the runner's body. The runner will be partially suspended from the device such that when his or her feet hit the ground, less of the runner's weight will impact upon the ground. The amount of lift can be varied by shortening or lengthening the supports, by adjusting the tension of the support, or raising or lowering the frame so that a runner can start training at an artificially-induced lighter impact weight, find his or her optimum form at an increased speed, and then gradually apply the improved speed and form to carry the runner's full weight.
Abstract:
An upper and lower "U" shaped framework are secured together utilizing rear leg members and forward leg members extending downwardly from the framework to secure in a telescoping manner leg extensions thereto. The leg extensions utilize roller members at lower terminal ends thereof or alternatively, friction pads to provide stability of the organization when not in use as a walker structure. A tray member is selectively and securably mounted relative to the upper framework.
Abstract:
A seat assembly for releasable attachment to the center post of a conventional crutch comprises a planar sitting board with a support board hingedly attached thereto. In a first embodiment, a sleeve is affixed to a hinge which is affixed to the back edge of the sitting board. The sleeve may be slidingly fit over the top end of the crutch center post and thereby maintain the seat assembly in the open, ready position wherein the sitting board is substantially horizontal and the crutch and support board are vertically oriented, being spaced apart by the sitting board. In a second embodiment, a bracket having a pair of grooves is attached to the sitting board and attaches to a pair of spaced bolts affixed to the crutch center post. Additional securing means are provided in the form of a stabilizer rod extending from the center post to the support board.
Abstract:
A leg-propulsion assistance device for improving the individual field of a mobility of a human being. The device provides a saddle supplied with a hip fastening device. A saddle joint allows for the swiveling movement of two telescopic rods, the extension force of which is derived from a compressed spring or fluid generated under pressure, by a motor-compressor set. A link arm transmits the movement to a fixed joint in front of the user's shoe. A joint which becomes freed automatically at the end of each propulsive stride allows the link arm and foot to be raised. An automatic piloting system synchronizes the motive force with the muscular extension force of the leg and foot. The invention relates to all applications necessitating propulsion by the legs of an individual capable or not capable of exerting an intense muscular effort.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an ambulating device, or walker, intended for teing or re-education of motricity, which comprises a self-powered frame mounted on wheels, a carrier element in which a patient is placed, which comprises orifices for his legs to pass, and which is fixed on a mobile support which is connected to the frame while being free to move with respect thereto in at least one direction, and the mobile support is connected to the frame by relative motion sensors and the device comprises servo-control loops between the sensors and the motors.
Abstract:
A portable seat for mounting on an invalid walker enabling a walking invalid to sit and rest until strength is recovered sufficiently to continue walking. The seat comprises a rectangular, foldable sheet of material of sufficient strength to support a person. The seat can be readily attached to the walker for seating to rest and readily detached for carrying on the person in pocket or purse for walking. The seat is adjustable in one or more respects and can be mounted on the more complex of common walkers, such as some foldable swinging walkers, without making holes in or structural changes to frame members. Four hooks are detachably connected to respective frame members by means of ordinary hose clamps. A metal ring is attached to the sheet at each corner thereof and the sheet is attached to the walker by placing each ring on a respective hook. The seat can be manufactured from readily available common parts and installed using common skills and tools.