Parallel Bars Instrument For Walking Exercise

Abstract

A parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise or a gait training is provided for the purpose of enhancing a rehabilitation will of disabled or handicapped persons due to various kinds of diseases or accidents. The parallel bars instrument includes: a bottom portion; rotating plates which are respectively installed into rotating plate insertion portions and rotated; support stands each including a number of height control latches; vertical rods each including a number of height control holes; handle rods; and horizontal rods. The supplementary rotational parallel bars instruments rotate and stop together with rotations of the respective rotating plates. Accordingly, the handicapped person can easily turn back. As a result, the handicapped person can repeatedly perform a reciprocating gait training alone without the help of an assistant, and prevent the safety accident in advance.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise for rehabilitation of the disabled persons who need to have a walking exercise, and more particularly, to a parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise in which rotating plates which are placed at both sides of the parallel bars instrument rotates by 180°, to thereby enable a user to perform a gait training by his or her desired distance without being under restraint to the length of the parallel bars instrument and in safety, with convenience, and in a reciprocating manner, during the walking exercise time.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Presently, there are many auxiliary instruments such as a walking stick and crutch for the physically handicapped persons who are unable to walk for themselves due to various kinds of diseases or accidents and need to have a gait training. But, in order for the disabled persons to use such auxiliary aids or to properly walk, firstly many efforts and ambu...

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Benefits of technology

[0005]To solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise in which since circular rotating plates are positioned at both sides of the bottom portion of the parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise and handle rods are positioned at both upper portions of the parallel bars instrument, a disabled person catches the handle rods by the hands and stands on the rotating plate, the rotating plate rotates by 180 degrees, with an electric motor rotating at a low speed and then stops, to make the disabled person automatically turn round and safely make a gait training in a reciprocating manner, and to thus solve the conventional problem that the length of the parallel bars instrument is not sufficiently long due to the obstacle of the space.

[0006]It is another object of the present invention to provide a parallel bars instrument for a walking exercise, in which when the disabled person makes a walking exercise in the parallel bars instrument, he or she can easily and safely rotate in a reciprocating manner, and can perform a reciprocating gait training alone without the help of an assistant thereby enhancing the confidence and rehabilitation will to the disabled person.

[0009]Here, a concavo-convex portion is formed on top of the bottom portion so that a user does not slide.

Problems solved by technology

But the parallel bars instrument for the walking exercise which are used in the conventional hospitals are not sufficiently long in practice, due to the spatial restriction.

In this case, it is very difficult or nearly impossible for the disabled persons to perform a gait exercise in a reciprocating manner, in the parallel bars instrument, without having the help of an assistant.

Moreover, the severely handicapped persons who need to make a walking exercise in the parallel bars instrument feel or have many difficulties when they rotate in order to return at the ends of the parallel bars instrument.

In practice, the disabled persons are apt to fall down or get hurt.

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