40 results about "Back exercises" patented technology

The office gym exercise kit is a portable exercise kit that provides for a number of exercises to be performed by a user, including arm, leg and back exercises. The kit components are capable of attaching about a chair post and a chair back support to provide the exercises for the user. A flexible body is wrapped around the post and under the base of the chair then secured such that the flexible body remains in place around the chair post. A flexible band is wrapped around the chair back support. Both the flexible body and flexible band have retainers attached thereon. Several elastic straps are included in the kit. The elastic straps may be fastened to the flexible body and flexible band by latching onto the retainers. The user then exercises by extending the elastic straps with arms, legs or the like.

An exercise bench has a main support frame with a floor engaging member at one end and a folding front leg assembly at the other end which can be locked in a deployed position or a folded position. A user engaging foot stabilizer is pivotally associated with the front leg, and a thigh support is adjustably mounted on the front leg assembly or main support frame for engaging the thighs of a user when performing exercises while supported on the bench. The thigh support may be separate from or form part of a seat pad mounted on the frame. The bench is adjustable between positions for performing abdominal crunch or lower back exercises and is adjustable in both positions to allow different users to perform exercises effectively.

A therapeutic treatment machine alternatingly applies compression and traction to a patient. A frame includes: a platform having an upper body support pad with controllable resistance to forward and backward displacement; rollers supporting the lower back, buttocks and thighs; and a motor-driven foot support displaceable forward and backward predetermined distances and speeds. Tubular frame members fit over and adhesively engage arms projecting orthogonally from a corner section. Legs telescopically receive leg support members extending orthogonally from the arms. Compression and traction are each forcefully effected by motor rotation converted to longitudinal reciprocation of a linkage that drives the foot support. The patient's feet are held in place against footplates by clamps supported on a T-bar cross member having a stem extending forwardly through a longitudinal slot in the footplates. A threaded bolt extends through the slot to engage the platform at selectable locations to secure the T-bar to the footplates.

An exercise apparatus for isolating and strengthening upper back and shoulder muscles including opposed first and second outboard support members containing separate and opposed sets of stacked weights supported for reciprocation vertically, and an upper cross-member containing a pair of aligned upper roller tracks. The frame includes a pair of inboard first and second crossbars supported at opposed ends in upper and lower roller tracks of the frame, such that the crossbars are manipulated in opposed outwardly directions by the user positioned therebetween. Separate cables and supporting pulleys are utilized to extend between first and second crossbars for connections to respective opposed sets of stacked weights, allowing for concurrent movement of weights when each crossbar is moved laterally outwardly and inwardly by user's right and left hands in palm-out orientation, thereby isolating and strengthening the user's upper back and shoulder muscles.

An exercise machine includes a bench and board section including a stationary bench having first and second opposite ends, and a board having first and second opposite ends, with the first end of the board pivotally mounted adjacent the second end of the stationary bench, each of the bench and board being formed substantially from a single piece which can selectively support a torso of a person and legs of the person, and a resistance device in contact with the single piece board and which applies a resistance to pivotal movement of the board, while permitting the board to swing up and down against a resistance applied by the resistance device.

An exercise machine includes a bench and board section including a stationary bench having first and second opposite ends, and a board having first and second opposite ends, with the first end of the board pivotally mounted adjacent the second end of the stationary bench, each of the bench and board being formed substantially from a single piece which can selectively support a torso of a person and legs of the-person, and a resistance device in contact with the single piece board and which applies a resistance to pivotal movement of the board, while permitting the board to swing up and down against a resistance applied by the resistance device.

A lower back exercise apparatus exercises or imparts laterally and upwardly directed movements into a user's lower back when seated thereupon. The lower back exercise apparatus includes a lower base assembly, an upper seat assembly, and a motor assembly. The lower base assembly includes an upper, laterally concave base surface. The upper seat assembly includes a lower, laterally convex seat surface and an upper seat surface. The upper seat assembly is laterally ridable upon and movable relative to the lower base assembly. The motor assembly is drives a laterally directed, cylindrical arc length trajectory of the upper seat assembly relative to the lower base assembly. The concave and convex surfacing have a common radius of curvature with a common fulcrum point spatially located adjacent an upper portion of a user's lumbar spinal region Lateral flexion is thus imparted into a user's lower back when a user is seated thereupon.

A back exercise machine includes: a resistance element; a user support; a first movement element, the first movement element having: a column; and a first connecting element having a pivot point such that the user support is able to pivot about a first axis associated with the first connecting element, wherein the first connecting element is movably coupled to the column such that the first connecting element is able to move along a path defined by the column; and a second movement element, the second movement element having: a rail; and a second connecting element having a pivot point such that the user support is able to pivot about a second axis associated with the second connecting element, wherein the second connecting element is movably coupled to the rail such that the second connecting element is able to move along a path defined by the rail.

The invention discloses a waist and back exercising and rehabilitating machine, which centralizedly exercises or rehabilitates a waist and a back of a human body and can do pitching motion of the back and the left-and-right twisting motion of the waist. According to the invention, the conventional elastic force applying device is not used, a steering engine with adjustable output is taken as a force applying device, and the resistance provided by the steering engine can be regulated according to needs of an exerciser or a rehabilitator, so that a user can be exercised and rehabilitated more scientifically; in order to adapt to people with different heights and body shapes, the exercising and rehabilitating machine can regulate the length and thus is wide in application range; in an exercising mode, the steering engine outputs a moment of resistance which is opposite to a human acting force so as to achieve an exercising effect; and in an rehabilitating mode, the motion of the waist and the back of the human body is driven by the moment output by the steering engine so as to achieve a rehabilitation training effect.

The invention provides an orthopedic spinal injury rehabilitation training device which comprises a base and a training chair. The training chair comprises a chair stool and a chair back which are separately arranged on the base, and a shoulder and back exercising mechanism and a waist and back exercising mechanism are separately arranged on the two sides of the chair back; the shoulder and back exercise mechanism comprises connecting rods arranged on the two sides of the chair back and rotating discs rotationally arranged at the ends of the connecting rods respectively, the round faces of the two rotating discs are oppositely arranged, and shoulder hanging rings are fixedly arranged on the opposite round faces of the two rotating discs; a square hole penetrating through the two sides is formed in the middle of the chair back, the waist and back exercise mechanism comprises a U-shaped swing arm and a waist and back massage assembly which are connected into the square hole through a first rotating shaft, and the waist and back massage assembly is fixedly connected with the U-shaped swing arm through a first linkage mechanism; pedals are arranged on the base and fixedly connected with the two sides of the U-shaped swing arm through second linkage mechanisms respectively. The device is diversified in training mode, high in interestingness, good in auxiliary training ability, high in practicability and good in training effect.

This invention relates to health and fitness and more particularly to exercise methods and devices. This invention is directly related to strengthening the muscles between the shoulder blades associated with poor posture, without the use of the hands. The exercise apparatus comprises two adjustable fabric loops connected to a rubber loop. The user slips one arm into each fabric loop pulling the device up to rest on the back of the upper arms with the rubber loop resting across the front of the body just above chest height. User then contracts the shoulder blades together and down which creates resistance on the rubber loop strengthening the muscles between the shoulder blades.

A sitting type foot-driven back knocking device is formed by connecting a support, a seat, back knocking bars, upper and lower swing arms, connection rods, tension springs and pedals, wherein the seat is arranged right in front of the support; the back knocking bars, the upper and lower swing arms, the connection rods, the tension springs and the pedals are arranged on the support; the back knocking bars can knock the back of a user after the user steps on the pedals, and the pedals can return to the original position after raised due to elasticity of the tension springs. When the sitting type foot-driven back knocking device is used, the user sitting on the seat steps on the pedals, the back knocking bars knock the back of the user, and accordingly the user can easily and comfortably do back exercises.