VERSATILE REHABILITATION AND TRAINING HAND FLIPPERS DESIGNED BY A. VIALETS

摘要

A versatile rehabilitation and training hand flippers designed by A. Vialets are intended for speeding-up the movement in the water. The flipper contains the recess for being held in the hand with the thickening matching the thumb. The flipper designed for the rehabilitation of the patients, the prevention of the diseases, the health improvement, and the training in the water and underwater are triangle, ellipse-shaped or rounded or any other curvilinear shape and consists of at least one plate made of the durable material such as fiberglass, fabric-base laminate, water-proof plywood, polyvinyl chloride. The surface of the plate is with the thickenings or the bevels allowing for varying the loading onto the muscles of the arms, the thorax, the shoulders, and the back. The thumb is held in the through opening or half-opening of the plate or in the recess representing the bed for the thumb, or on the surface of the plate of the flipper. Other four fingers are held in the through openings, or the openings with the recesses representing the beds for the fingers. Otherwise, the hand holds the ring or the narrow area of the flipper. The cord is passed through the hole in the plate of the flipper and is tied with a knot for securing the flipper on the arm of the swimmer when the flipper should be taken off.