Yoga wrist saver device

Abstract

An attractive wrist saver device with an elastomeric body and an adjustable strap is provided for decreasing stress and strain of a user's wrist joint by elevating a heel of a user's hand and lessening the amount and degree of an extension of a user's wrist so as to comfort and cushion the user's wrist and substantially prevent the user's wrist from being positioned at a 90 degree right angle and perpendicular to the user's forearm and hand when the user is performing yoga, pushups, hand stands, dips or other upper body weight bearing exercises.

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BACKGROUND[0001]This invention relates to sports accessories and exercise equipment, and more particularly, to a wrist saver device for use in yoga, pushups, hand stands, dips and other upper body weight bearing exercises.[0002]Yoga can be useful for exercise, cardiovascular workout, improving flexibility, increasing strength and endurance, relieving hypertension, improving physical health and well being and for physical, mental and medical therapy. According to a market study, 6.1 percent, or nearly 14 million Americans, indicate that a doctor or therapist has recommended yoga to them. Also, nearly 45% of all adults agree that yoga would be beneficial if they were undergoing treatment for a medical condition. Yoga as medicine represents the next great yoga wave. In the future, we expect to see a lot more yoga in health care settings and more yoga recommended by the medical community as new research shows that yoga is a valuable therapeutic tool for many health conditions.[0003]Yoga...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The patent is about a unique wrist saver device that reduces stress and strain on the user's wrist joints by elevating the heel of the hand and lessening the amount of extension of the wrist. This device provides comfort and cushioning for the wrist and prevents it from being positioned at a 90 degree angle perpendicular to the forearm during weight bearing exercises such as yoga poses, pushups, and dips. The wrist saver device can also help recover from carpal tunnel surgery or suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome and provides a healthy and comfortable regime for yoga enthusiasts. The careful and gradual approach to increasing wrist flexibility and strength with the wrist saver devices can prevent wrist problems and significant wrist pain. The wrist saver device is comfortable, economical, light weight, safe, dependable, and effective. It is designed to be one size-fits-all and provides wrist support and comfort during weight-bearing activities.

Problems solved by technology

This more mature demographic often have less range of motion in their wrists, making a 90 degree right angle or perpendicular position between the hand and forearm difficult and painful.

Indeed, many people when doing yoga or other weight bearing exercises experience pain in their wrist joint.

This can put excess stress on the wrist joints causing pain for many people.

Perhaps their difficulties began with long hours at a computer keyboard or with a hard fall on an outstretched hand or even with doing asanas.

Weight bearing on the arms seems to bring out the wrist's vulnerability since the wrist is a relatively small joint with delicate tissues that are packed into this small area.

Strain or irritation in tendons in the wrist can be a major factor in wrist pain.

Since the wrist, like any joint, will lose any part of its range of motion that isn't used regularly, most people gradually lose their ability to move easily and safely into full wrist extension, i.e. a 90 degree right angle and perpendicular to the hand and forearm.

Many of the yoga positions require the yoga practitioner to balance their wrists, which can sometime cause sharp pain.

Several of the postures in sun salutation, i.e. plank, chaturanga dandasana, urdhva mukha svanasan, require full extension, so performing the series over and over, can put a cumulatively heavy load, stress and strain on the wrists.

Combining extreme range of motion with a heavy load and multiple repetitions can increase wrist strain.

Under such conditions, it is not surprising that the wrists of the person (exerciser) become painful.

Many yoga enthusiasts (yogis) are finding that their wrists often can't hold up to the weight bearing poses that are an integral part of yoga.

As a result, over time people lose their full range of motion.

However, for many yogis whose wrists are more use to a computer keyboard then a sun salutation, wrist pain is often the first twist they encounter when starting a yoga regimen.

Many people doing yoga or other weight bearing exercises complain of wrist pain.

However, most of these prior art conventional accessories, equipment and devices are cumbersome, difficult to use, not practical, and have been unsuccessful in alleviating and eliminating these problems.

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