AUXILIARY TOOL FOR STRENGTHENING FLEXIBILITY AND MUSCLE AT LOWER LEG JOINT PART

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a person who can not get into water to strengthen the flexibility and muscle of the lower leg joint part outside the water by providing a rotating body outside L-shaped two edges of an L-shaped rack for placing legs so as to move forward and backward. ;SOLUTION: The tool is constituted of the L-shaped rack 1 and rotating body 2, 3 provided on the side surface and bottom surface of the rack, and the fixing part 4 of the legs are provided for it. Otherwise, it is possible to provide the rotating body 2 only at the corner of the rack 1. Thus, the tool can easily be moved forward and backward on a floor surface. Bending and stretching exercises of wrists, insteps, Achilles' tendon, knees, a hip joint, etc.. can be made without applying too large force to a waist, a stomach and lower leg joint parts by using the tool lying on one's back. Consequently, even a person who can not get into water can make bending and stretching exercises of his/her lower leg joint and waist.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO