Equipment to assist the carrying out of flexion exercises of the cervical zone of the spinal column

US20020177507A1Inactive Publication Date: 2002-11-28CARBONE GIUSEPPE
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
CARBONE GIUSEPPE
Publication Date
2002-11-28
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An equipment comprising a body (1) that defines a seating (2) intended to encircle the head of the user, within said body there being provided an annular channel (5) that runs around the seating (2) and accommodates at least one cursor (6) arranged in a fully mobile manner, so that to a rotatory movement of the user's head around the axis of the spinal column there corresponds a motion of said cursor (6) along said channel (5) and the user, perceiving the vibrations and / or the noise produced by said motion, receives indications regarding the symmetry and uniformity of the rotatory movement of his head.
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[0001] The present invention concerns the field of fitness equipments. More particularly, the invention has as its object an equipment for carrying out exercises involving the muscles and the articulations of the cervical zone of the spinal column.DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART

[0002] By far the greater part of the pathologies of the cervical zone of the spinal column are connected with phenomena of arthrosis. Apart from being the cause of painful disorders that are extremely troublesome or even invalidating, these pathologies can have serious repercussions of a neurological character.

[0003] As far as physiotherapy is concerned, be it for preventive or therapeutic purposes, interventions regarding these pathologies include also exercises in which--due to the effect of a rotation of the head about the axis of the spinal column--there is produced a flexion of the affected cervical zone. Exercises of this kind may make it possible to increase the mobility of the articulations and to corre...

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