Spine-Correcting Foam Roller with Anatomical Grooves
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current foam rollers primarily focus on relaxing muscles and fasciae without correcting spinal alignment, leading to potential metabolic issues due to spinal misalignment, which can compress nerves and affect neurotransmission and fluid circulation, resulting in decreased metabolism and obesity.
Innovation Solution
A spine-correcting orthopedic foam roller with specific grooves and protrusions to accommodate and stimulate spinous, transverse, and costal processes, allowing self-therapy to correct spinal posture and improve metabolism by applying deep stimulation and restoring normal spinal positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional foam roller is used to relax muscles and fasciae, then muscle relaxation is achieved, but spinal alignment correction is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The foam roller applies different structural features to different spinal regions: grooves for spinous processes, transverse process stimulating parts, and costal tubercle stimulating protrusions. Each feature targets specific anatomical structures to provide localized correction while maintaining overall relaxation benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The foam roller is divided into multiple functional segments along its length, with each segment containing specific grooves or protrusions corresponding to different vertebral levels. This segmentation allows independent action on different spinal segments while maintaining a unified device structure.
2Reliability
If manual therapy is used to correct the spine, then spinal alignment and metabolism improvement are achieved, but time, effort, cost, and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The foam roller enables self-correction of spinal alignment through biomechanical pressing actions. The user can independently perform the correction exercise by positioning the foam roller and applying body weight, eliminating the need for a licensed practitioner while achieving similar therapeutic effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The foam roller acts as an intermediary device that transfers and distributes corrective forces from the user's body weight to the spinal structures. The grooves and protrusions on the roller mediate the force application to ensure proper alignment correction without requiring manual manipulation skills.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If abnormal pressure is applied to the spine, then temporary relief may be achieved, but spinal nerves are compressed and neurotransmission deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The foam roller changes the pressure distribution parameters by using grooves and protrusions that concentrate force on specific anatomical points. This localized pressure application achieves therapeutic effects while avoiding diffuse compression that would harm nerves. The biomechanical design ensures pressure is applied only where needed for correction.
Solution Approach 2:
The device converts the potentially harmful effect of pressure into a beneficial corrective force. By strategically placing grooves and protrusions, the pressure that would normally be harmful is redirected to specifically target misaligned structures, transforming a harmful mechanism into a therapeutic one.
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AI summary
A spine-correcting orthopedic foam roller for improving metabolism, includes: a spinous process accommodation groove for accommodating spinous processes of the spine; a transversus process stimulating part extending from the spinous process accommodation groove and protruding from a portion thereof corresponding to transversus processes of the spine; and a junctional process accommodation groove extending from the transversus process stimulating part in an axial direction and accommodating junctional processes, which are the ends of the transversus processes at which transverse costal facets are formed.