Bed-shaped exerciser

Abstract

A bed-shaped exerciser comprising a mechanism for lifting up and moving down alternately right and left legs of user lying on the bed-shaped exerciser and facing upward and a mechanism for swinging the body of user leftward and rightward with the feet being fixed. Further, a bed-shaped exerciser comprising a bed wherein there are arranged at one end side of an upper surface of a bed body a pair of foot-holding elements for legs exercise for lifting up and moving down alternately right and left feet of user lying on the bed and facing upward, the bed body consisting a separately provided part including the foot-holding element, and the separately provided part of the bed body being adapted to be able to move up and down or rotate with respect to the other part of the bed body.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a bed-shaped exerciser and its construction having a function that a user lying on the exercise-bed and facing upward puts their feet on a predetermined pair of foot-holding elements to activate and move the foot-holding elements in order to start exercise of legs and feet. [0003] 2. Prior Art [0004] Patients having long been in a hospital or persons being long bedridden almost surely have muscles of and near legs declined or become weaker. Being long bedridden is likely to lead to poor blood circulation to legs, causing an additional symptom of any possible diseases, whereby the situation of being bedridden is not at all wiped away in the worst case due to the additional symptom of disease. For the purpose of avoiding the problem, various attempts and countermeasures have been hitherto taken for keeping muscular strength or power. [0005] In detail, at a stage when patients recover t...

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Benefits of technology

[0013] By using the present invention exercise is enabled with power of a driving source housed in the apparatus. Thus, the present invention is applicable to rehabilitation of patients after recovery from injuries or diseases to show a sufficient effect. Also, people living in everyday ordinary life but worried about lack of exercise may use the present invention in order to eliminate lack of exercise. Furthermore, the present invention may be provided in air planes, buses, or trains in their long distance routes to prevent the foregoing “economy class syndrome” and show sure and absolute effects.

[0016] A member for movement of moving up and down is separate from the bed body and is fixed at a proper position set by turning or shifting up and down this member so as to be usable as an exerciser. By this, a delicate and complicated movement of legs, which is not at all provided merely by changing amplitude and cycles, is able to be reproduced, thereby providing an ideal exerciser that finely deals with kinds and degree of injuries and diseases, degree of recovery therefrom, figures of human bodies of patients, etc.

[0019] Furthermore, in the present invention, the second invention may be also provided with a function allowing an exercise other than the legs exercise which function is essential in the first invention. Minutely, a bed member, i.e. an upper surface part of the part of the bed body not including the foot-holding element (i.e. the part on which the body from head to waist of user lying on the bed and facing upward is positioned) may be mounted to a bed base in capable of being rotated so as to swing around a longitudinal axis of the bed body, so that exercise of swinging (horizontal movement) rightward and leftward the body with head and feet being fixed. Right and left legs with feet are alternately lifted up and moved down and the movement of legs is coupled with the movement of swinging the body rightward and leftward, thereby providing a movement complicatedly combining contraction of muscles, bending and stretching of joints, and twisting movement of body.

Problems solved by technology

Being long bedridden is likely to lead to poor blood circulation to legs, causing an additional symptom of any possible diseases, whereby the situation of being bedridden is not at all wiped away in the worst case due to the additional symptom of disease.

As an actual point of matters, the start of rehabilitation exercise is often likely to delay, i.e., to be hindered due to patients complaining of pains even after a stage when patients could readily regain original functions of organs.

Furthermore, in case of aged persons who generally get leg muscles weaken, it is often hard from bitterness of pains for the aged persons to continue exercises, which they carry out on the basis of their intention, such as bending and stretching exercises of legs or walking.

The generated thrombi flow through blood circulation in the body, occasionally leading to a serious disorder, particularly, death.

Moreover, the disorder also occurs in persons engaging in desk work and in those whose occupation is to drive cars.

But they are seldom long kept in use.

Hence, it is quite severe for the users to impose on themselves continuation of using of those conventional apparatuses or instruments even after they feel and sense pains and fatigue.

And also, it is much hard for a third person to keep forcing users or patients to continue using of those conventional apparatuses or instruments.

Moreover, the constructions of the apparatuses, etc did not give users comfortable use, so that in most cases users easily stop using such apparatuses without achieving desired goal or purpose.

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