Spinal Mobility Platform With Rotating Arcuate Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional tools like yoga wheels, foam rollers, and balls are challenging for beginners or those with physical limitations, and improper use can lead to injuries, limiting their effectiveness in enhancing mobility and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
A device with a frame and platform supporting an arcuate body rotatably, featuring rollers to allow the arcuate body to rotate within an opening, adjustable bars for balance, and additional features like resistance bands and neck traction tools for enhanced mobility and flexibility exercises.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional tools like yoga wheels, foam rollers, or balls are used, then mobility and flexibility can be enhanced, but the risk of injury increases and ease of operation decreases for beginners or users with physical limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a support device as an intermediary between the user and the exercise ball. This support device includes a platform with an opening that receives the ball, and a roller that rotates within the opening to provide controlled resistance. The support device mediates the interaction between the user and the ball, making the exercise safer and easier to perform while still achieving mobility and flexibility enhancement
Solution Approach 2:
The support device segments the exercise system into distinct functional components: a stable platform base, a rotatable roller mechanism, and the exercise ball. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function - the platform provides stability, the roller provides controlled resistance and guidance, and the ball provides the mobility element - thereby improving safety and ease of operation
2Adaptability or versatility
If deeper spinal rotations and muscle stretches are achieved, then mobility and flexibility are enhanced, but the risk of injury increases
Solution Approach 1:
The roller mechanism provides tactile and mechanical feedback to the user during exercise. As the roller rotates within the constrained opening, it provides resistance that gives the user feedback on their movement depth and control. This feedback mechanism helps users achieve deeper spinal rotations and muscle stretches while maintaining control and avoiding injury
Solution Approach 2:
The support device introduces dynamic control through the rotatable roller mechanism. The roller can rotate freely within the opening, providing adaptive resistance that moves with the user's motion. This dynamic element allows the system to accommodate varying user abilities and movement ranges while maintaining safety constraints, enabling deeper stretches without increasing injury risk
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Provides stable and controlled mobility and flexibility exercises, reducing the risk of injury and enabling deeper spinal rotations and muscle stretches, suitable for users of varying abilities.
Implementation Method 1
one or more rollers configured to rotatably support the arcuate body within the opening
Data Source
AI summary
A device is for increasing mobility and/or flexibility of a body including a spine. The device includes a frame and a platform disposed on the frame. The platform has an opening. The device also includes an arcuate body rotatably supported about a rotation axis by the device such that at least a portion of the arcuate body is disposed within the opening. The arcuate body may include a yoga wheel, a foam roller, a ball, or the like.