Adjustable Lower-Body Stretching Table for Muscle Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing stretching tables are limited in their ability to target and isolate lower extremities, lower backs, and lower abdominal muscle groups, and achieving a balance between durability and compact size for various settings is challenging.
Innovation Solution
A stretching table with an upper body support member and independently adjustable first and second lower body support members, connected via a connection mechanism, allowing for swiveling, tilting, and rotating movements to provide targeted stretching of specific muscle groups, facilitated by an electric drive mechanism and remote control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional stretching tables are used, then basic stretching function is provided, but the ability to target and isolate specific muscle groups is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The stretching table is divided into multiple independent support members (first support member, second support member, third support member) that can be individually adjusted. Each support member can be independently positioned to target specific muscle groups, allowing selective stretching of different body regions without requiring the entire table structure to be reconfigured.
Solution Approach 2:
The support members are designed with dynamic adjustment capabilities through connection mechanisms that allow movement between fixed and adjustable positions. The second support member can pivot relative to the first support member, and the third support member can be positioned at multiple angles, enabling the structure to adapt dynamically to different stretching requirements.
2Strength
If the stretching table is made sturdy and durable, then structural strength is improved, but the size becomes large and compactness is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The table structure is segmented into multiple support members that can be independently adjusted and positioned. This segmentation allows the structure to maintain strength where needed while minimizing overall volume by only deploying support elements when and where required for specific stretching exercises.
Solution Approach 2:
The support members utilize multi-dimensional adjustment capabilities, including vertical positioning, horizontal extension, and angular orientation. This three-dimensional adjustability allows the structure to achieve the necessary structural strength for durability while maintaining a compact footprint when the adjustable elements are retracted or positioned minimally.
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AI summary
A stretching table that provides targeted stretching for lower extremity, lower back and/or lower abdominal muscle groups in a human patient and is capable of being manipulated in a number of different configurations. The stretching table is capable of providing targeted stretching so that certain muscle groups can be stretched, rehabilitated and/or worked on individually. According to one example, the stretching table includes a base member, an upright member connected to the base member, an upper body support member connected to the upright member, and first and second lower body support members connected to the upper body support member via a connection mechanism.