Combined ankle pump exercise device
By incorporating a detachable pedal and detection mechanism into the combined ankle pump exercise device, the problems of insufficient ankle joint range of motion and massage selection in ankle pump exercise devices are solved, realizing the flexibility of quantitative training and massage function of ankle pump exercise and improving training effect.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202423007134.4
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-12-06
- Publication Date
- 2025-11-21
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-12-06
AI Technical Summary
Existing ankle pump exercise devices suffer from insufficient ankle joint range of motion during patient self-training due to wound healing, pain, and other reasons. Furthermore, they cannot be customized according to the patient's wishes to include foot massage, which affects the training effect.
A combined ankle pump exercise device was designed, featuring a detachable pedal structure, a detection mechanism, and a display screen. This allows patients to choose whether to receive a massage and enables passive movement via a motor, ensuring both quantifiable and flexible training.
It enables flexible selection of ankle pump exercise quantitative training and massage functions, improving training effectiveness and enhancing the device's flexibility and safety.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of rehabilitation exercise equipment, in particular to the technical field of ankle pump exercise device. BACKGROUND
[0002] Ankle pump exercise refers to the movement of ankle joint driven by lower limb muscle contraction, which usually includes flexion and extension movement of ankle joint (the flexion and extension movement of ankle joint is specifically that the patient stretches lower limbs, relaxes thighs, first presses down with toes straight, keeps for 5-10 seconds at the maximum, then hooks inwards with toes towards oneself and slowly, keeps for 5-10 seconds at the maximum, and repeats) and circular movement (takes supine position or sitting position, keeps ankle joint 90°, and carries out 360° circular movement of toe tip with ankle joint as center).
[0003] The existing flexion and extension movement of ankle joint usually completely relies on the autonomous training of patients; however, in actual operation, the patients often have the phenomenon of insufficient flexion and extension amplitude of ankle joint and insufficient exercise times due to reasons such as worrying about wound healing, postoperative incision pain and not enough attention in mind, and thus the training purpose cannot be achieved.
[0004] Therefore, the ankle pump exercise device with publication number CN216909075U sets two rotatable and naturally upturned footboards on the base to enable the patient to perform the downward pressing and upwarping action of feet, cooperates with two groups of detection mechanisms to detect the state of swinging movement of the footboards respectively, simultaneously utilizes the display screen to feedback in real time, so as to assist medical staff and the patient himself to understand the compliance rate and accuracy rate of ankle pump exercise; the device can also utilize the massage balls located on the footboards to massage the foot bottom acupoints of the patient during the implementation of ankle pump exercise; however, once the device is out of the factory, the patient is difficult to replace the footboard according to the will to select whether to apply the massage function (some patients with foot bottom massage pain sensitivity have the phenomenon of not adapting to the massage balls). SUMMARY
[0005] The utility model aims at solving the problems in the prior art, and proposes a combined ankle pump exercise device, which can not only utilize the display screen and two groups of detection mechanisms to cooperate to learn the compliance rate and accuracy rate of ankle pump exercise in real time during the swinging of two footboards, so as to ensure the quantification of training, but also can freely select whether to realize the massage of foot bottom acupoints simultaneously.
[0006] To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the utility model proposes a combined ankle pump exercise device, which comprises a base, two footboards that can be swung by stepping, detection mechanisms that can monitor the swinging times and swinging amplitudes of the two footboards, a display screen, a control panel and a power supply that are respectively installed on the base, and a remote controller that is in communication connection with the control panel, the footboard is provided with a board body that is jointly formed by a base plate and a movable plate, the movable plate is detachably connected with the base plate, and the top surface is designed as a smooth surface or is provided with massage balls.
[0007] Preferably, the top surface of the movable plate is provided with a stepping indicator outline.
[0008] Preferably, the pedal further includes a protrusion, a pivot, and a torsion spring. The protrusion is fixed to the base, the pivot is rotatably connected to the protrusion, the base plate is fixed to the pivot, and the torsion spring is sleeved outside the pivot with its two ends fixed to the protrusion and the base plate, respectively. In its natural state, the base plate is tilted upwards at its free end due to the torsion spring, and when stepped on, it can move downwards towards the base to form a swinging motion.
[0009] Preferably, the substrate has an insertion port on the top surface that extends through the free end, and a through hole on the side surface that connects to the insertion port. The movable plate can be inserted into the substrate along the insertion port and has a screw hole corresponding to the through hole. The substrate and the movable plate are reinforced by screwing in positioning bolts.
[0010] Preferably, the base plate and the movable plate are respectively provided with fixed point marks and moving point marks for indicating through holes and screw holes on their top surfaces.
[0011] Preferably, the movable plate is also equipped with a handle at its free end.
[0012] Preferably, a first motor capable of driving the rotating shaft is mounted on the protrusion.
[0013] Preferably, the protrusion is suspended above the base by a support plate, and a second motor capable of driving the protrusion support plate to rotate is mounted on the base.
[0014] Preferably, the detection mechanism is composed of a first infrared emitter and a second infrared emitter located on the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate, a first infrared receiver extending from the column to the top of the base, and a second infrared receiver disposed on the top surface of the base. The substrate receives the first infrared emitter and the second infrared emitter through a recess in the substrate, the column receives the first infrared receiver through a recess in the column body, and the base receives the second infrared receiver through a recess in the base body.
[0015] Preferably, the base is also provided with pads on the bottom surface.
[0016] Beneficial effects of this utility model
[0017] 1) By adopting the plate body composed of the base plate and the movable plate as the foot pressing part of the pedal, the patient can select the smooth design or the movable plate with massage balls according to the needs, and then install the selected movable plate on the base plate, so that not only the display screen and the two sets of detection mechanisms can be used to obtain the compliance rate and accuracy of the ankle pump movement in real time during the pressing and swinging of the two pedals, ensuring the quantization of the training, but also the massage of the foot acupoints can be freely selected to realize the synchronization, so that the flexibility of the device is stronger;
[0018] 2) By inserting the base plate and the movable plate, and setting the corresponding through hole and screw hole on the base plate and the movable plate, the quick positioning and stable reinforcement between the base plate and the movable plate can be realized, and the fixed point mark and the moving point mark set outside the base plate and the movable plate can also assist the accurate alignment between the through hole and the screw hole;
[0019] 3) By setting the seat body pit, the plate body pit and the column body pit on the base, the base plate and the column respectively, the infrared receiving assembly can be put into the pit to avoid the convex phenomenon of the infrared receiving assembly.
[0020] The characteristics and advantages of the utility model will be described in detail by combining the embodiments with the drawings. DRAWINGS
[0021] Figure 1 is the top view of example one;
[0022] Figure 2 is the first structure schematic view of the pedal of example one;
[0023] Figure 3 is the second structure schematic view of example one;
[0024] Figure 4 is the third structure schematic view of example one;
[0025] Figure 5 is the left view of example one;
[0026] Figure 6 is the left view of example two;
[0027] Figure 7 is the left view of example three.
[0028] In the figure: 1 - base, 2 - pedal, 21 - protrusion, 22 - rotating shaft, 23 - plate body, 231 - base plate, 2311 - socket, 2312 - through hole, 2313 - fixed point mark, 232 - movable plate, 2321 - stepping indication contour, 2322 - massage ball, 2323 - screw hole, 2324 - movable point mark, 2325 - handle, 24 - torsion spring, 3 - detection mechanism, 31 - stand, 32 - first infrared emitter, 33 - first infrared receiver, 34 - second infrared emitter, 35 - second infrared receiver, 4 - display screen, 5 - foot pad, 6 - first motor, 7 - second motor. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0029] Example One
[0030] Referring to Figures 1 to 5 The utility model discloses a combined ankle pump exercise device, including base 1, two pedals 2 that can be trodden swing, the detection mechanism 3 of monitoring the swing times and swing amplitude of two pedals 2, display screen 4, control panel and power supply and remote controller of communication connection with control panel are installed on base 1 respectively, the foot part of pedal 2 is the plate body 23 that is jointly constituted by base plate 231 and movable plate 232, movable plate 232 is detachable with base plate 231 and the top surface adopts smooth surface design or has massage ball 2322, in addition, display screen 4 is located on the top surface of base 1, control panel and battery are installed in the inner chamber of base 1 respectively, control panel is electrically connected with detection mechanism 3, display screen 4 and power supply respectively.
[0031] The top surface of movable plate 232 is equipped with stepping indication contour 2321, wherein, stepping indication contour 2321 can assist patient to place the foot in the specified position, to guarantee the effective performance of test, if the top surface of movable plate 232 has massage ball 2322, then massage ball 2322 is arranged in the range surrounded by stepping indication contour 2321, in addition, massage ball 2322 can select smooth ball or rough ball.
[0032] Pedal 2 still includes protrusion 21, rotating shaft 22 and torsion spring 24, protrusion 21 is fixed with base 1, rotating shaft 22 is rotatably connected with protrusion 21, base plate 231 is fixed with rotating shaft 22, torsion spring 24 is sleeved outside rotating shaft 22 and two ends are fixed with protrusion 21 and base plate 231 respectively, base plate 231 is in the natural state and is upturned to the free end because of torsion spring 24 and can be close to base 1 downward when being trodden to form swing movement.
[0033] The substrate 231 is provided with a through-hole 2311 at the top surface, and the movable plate 232 is provided with a through-hole 2312 corresponding to the through-hole 2311 at the side surface. The movable plate 232 is inserted into the through-hole 2311 of the substrate 231 and is provided with a screw hole 2323 corresponding to the through-hole 2312. The substrate 231 and the movable plate 232 are fastened by a positioning bolt.
[0034] The substrate 231 and the movable plate 232 are respectively provided with a fixed point mark 2313 and a movable point mark 2324 at the top surface.
[0035] The movable plate 232 is further provided with a handle 2325 at the free end.
[0036] The detection mechanism 3 is composed of a first infrared emitter 32 and a second infrared emitter 34 located at the top surface and the bottom surface of the substrate 231, a first infrared receiver 33 extending above the base 1 through a column 31, and a second infrared receiver 35 provided on the top surface of the base 1. The substrate 231 is provided with a first recess for accommodating the first infrared emitter 32 and the second infrared emitter 34, the column 31 is provided with a second recess for accommodating the first infrared receiver 33, and the base 1 is provided with a third recess for accommodating the second infrared receiver 35. The first infrared emitter 32, the first infrared receiver 33, the second infrared emitter 34, and the second infrared receiver 35 are convex, which not only are easy to be damaged by collision, but also may affect the ankle pump exercise of the patient. The recess design can effectively protect the infrared transmission structure and the patient.
[0037] The base 1 is further provided with a foot pad 5 at the bottom surface. The foot pad 5 can be adjusted in length by a screw rod and a nut to ensure that the base 1 is horizontal during use. The foot pad 5 can be further provided with an anti-skid pad at the bottom.
[0038] Working process of the embodiment:
[0039] Before use, the movable plate 232 with a smooth surface (as shown in FIG. 1), the movable plate 232 with a massage ball 2322 on the surface (as shown in FIG. 2), or the movable plate 232 with a rough massage ball 2322 on the surface (as shown in FIG. 3) can be selected according to the needs. Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 The selected movable plate 232 is installed on the substrate 231 (the movable plate 232 is inserted into the through-hole 2311 until the movable point mark 2324 is aligned with the fixed point mark 2313, and then the positioning bolt is inserted into the screw hole 2323 through the through-hole 2312).
[0040] In use, the two feet are placed on the left and right movable plates 232 respectively at the stepping indication contour 231, the toes are straightened and pressed down first, and the free end of the plate body 23 is gradually close to the top surface of the base 1 downward, until one or several second infrared receivers 35 receive the signal from the second infrared emitter 34 and keep the pressed state for 5-10 seconds, then the toes are slowly hooked inward, and the free end of the plate body 23 is gradually close to the column 31 upward, until one or several first infrared receivers 33 receive the signal from the first infrared emitter 32 and keep the upward state for 5-10 seconds, and the process is repeated; during the process, the display 4 can display the number of times of completing the flexion and extension movement of the ankle joint and the average flexion and extension amplitude of the patient.
[0041] Embodiment two:
[0042] Referring to Figure 6 , the convex block 21 is suspended above the base 1 by a support plate, and a second motor 7 is installed above the base 1 to drive the support plate of the convex block 21 to rotate; the rest is the same as embodiment two.
[0043] Working process of the embodiment:
[0044] Embodiment one is an active ankle pump exercise device (i.e. the patient needs to actively make the dorsiflexion and plantarflexion movements of the foot); different from embodiment one, the first motor 6 is used to drive the rotation of the rotating shaft 22, thereby indirectly driving the rotation of the plate body 23 and the foot above the plate body 23 (i.e. the passive flexion and extension movement of the patient's foot can be realized.
[0045] Embodiment three:
[0046] Referring to Figure 7 , the convex block 21 is suspended above the base 1 by a support plate, and a second motor 7 is installed above the base 1 to drive the support plate of the convex block 21 to rotate; the rest is the same as embodiment two.
[0047] Working process of the embodiment:
[0048] The second motor 7 is additionally provided on the basis of embodiment two, so that the second motor 7 can indirectly realize the passive circular movement of the patient's foot.
[0049] The above embodiments are illustrative of the present application, but not limiting of the present application, and any simple transformation of the present application is within the protection scope of the present application.
Claims
1. A combination ankle pump exercise device characterized by: The utility model provides a kind of foot massager, including base (1), two pedals (2) that can be treaded swing, the detection mechanism (3) that can monitor the swing times and swing amplitude of two pedals (2), display screen (4) respectively installed on the base (1), control panel and power and remote controller with control panel communication connection, the foot part of the pedal (2) is the board body (23) that is jointly constituted by base plate (231) and movable plate (232), the movable plate (232) is detachably connected with base plate (231) and top surface uses smooth surface design or with massage ball (2322).
2. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 1 wherein: The top surface of the movable plate (232) is provided with a tread indicating contour (2321).
3. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 1 wherein: The pedal (2) further includes a protrusion (21), a rotating shaft (22) and a torsional spring (24), the protrusion (21) is fixed with the base (1), the rotating shaft (22) is rotatably connected with the protrusion (21), the base plate (231) is fixed with the rotating shaft (22), the torsional spring (24) is sleeved outside the rotating shaft (22) and the two ends are respectively fixed with the protrusion (21) and the base plate (231), the base plate (231) is upwardly curved in a free end in a natural state due to the torsional spring (24) and can be close to the base (1) downwardly when being treaded to form a swing movement.
4. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 3, wherein: The base plate (231) is provided with a socket (2311) penetrating the free end at the top surface, the base plate (231) is provided with a through hole (2312) communicating with the socket (2311) at the side surface, the movable plate (232) can be inserted with the base plate (231) along the socket (2311) and has a screw hole (2323) corresponding to the through hole (2312), the base plate (231) and the movable plate (232) are reinforced by screwing in a positioning bolt.
5. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 4, wherein: The base plate (231) and the movable plate (232) are respectively provided with a fixed point mark (2313) and a moving point mark (2324) indicating the through hole (2312) and the screw hole (2323) at the top surface.
6. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 4 wherein: The movable plate (232) is further provided with a handle (2325) at the free end.
7. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 3 wherein: The protrusion (21) is suspended above the base (1) by a support plate, and a second motor (7) is installed above the base (1) to drive the support plate of the protrusion (21) to rotate.
8. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 7, wherein: The detection mechanism (3) is composed of a first infrared emitter (32) and a second infrared emitter (34) located at the top surface and the bottom surface of the base plate (231), a first infrared receiver (33) extended to above the base (1) through a stand (31), and a second infrared receiver (35) arranged on the top surface of the base (1), the base plate (231) receives the first infrared emitter (32) and the second infrared emitter (34) through a board body recess, the stand (31) receives the first infrared receiver (33) through a column body recess, and the base (1) receives the second infrared receiver (35) through a seat body recess.
9. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 1 wherein: The base (1) is further provided with a foot pad (5) at the bottom surface.
10. The combination ankle pump exercise device of claim 1 wherein:
Citation Information
Patent Citations
Ankle pump exercise device
CN216909075U