A device for training and rehabilitation of a limb is provided. The device provides a board with a plurality of movement tracks to allow for controlled movement of the limb in various directions. Blockers and other controlling structures may be arranged on the device to limit range of motion of the movement of the limb.

A tilting inversion exerciser includes a carrier pivotally attached to a supporting stand for mounting a supporting table and for supporting a user, the supporting table includes a number of grooves, and a massage member is engaged with either of the grooves of the supporting table for attaching to the supporting table and for selectively engaging with the user to selectively massage the user. The massage member includes a catch engageable through the grooves of the supporting table for attaching to the supporting table, the catch is coupled to the massage member with a reduced neck member. The catch includes a length (L) greater than the width (D) of the grooves of the supporting table for engaging with the supporting table.

A pressure-applying device is generally used in workout (exercise) environments for applying pressure to release tension developed in muscles during heavy physical activity, such as power lifting. The device can be used for both roller applications, typically along the human back and point applications, which may be on the back or other points that accrue muscle tension during exercise. The device includes a cylindrical roller portion and end extensions extending from the roller portion at each end and aligned with the central axis of the roller portion. The extensions are sized to accept standard barbell weights. The result is a relatively light shipping weight and low cost roller device that can apply pressure far in excess of its own weight, reducing shipping/fabrication costs and increasing portability while the barbell weights are not mounted on the device.

A rolling back healthcare massage and fitness apparatus is designed for a user to perform a flexing and extending movement and to back-massage at the same time, wherein the apparatus includes a supporting frame constructed to have an upper frame and a lower frame, a rolling back massaging arrangement extended between the upper and lower frames, and two handle units spacedly extended between the upper and lower frames. The rolling back massaging arrangement has a plurality of rolling back massaging faces that one of the rolling back massaging faces is selectively oriented for touching, rubbing and kneading on the user's back. The handle units not only allows the user's hands to hold at the handle units to perform the flexing and extending movement but also enables the user's body to self-apply a massaging pressure on the user's back at one of the rolling back massaging faces for back-massaging.

A system including a set of at least three horizontal tread surfaces, and a drive system for displacing the tread surfaces vertically to form a set of stairs with a range of different rise heights. One end of a ramp is hingedly connected to the last tread surface so as to define a walking surface having a variable angle of inclination varying as a function of a vertical position of the last tread surface. The tread surfaces can assume a fully-lowered state in which the set of tread surfaces are juxtaposed as a continuous flat surface, and in which a support configuration supports the second end of the ramp so that, in the fully-lowered state, the walking surface of the ramp is horizontal, so that the tread surfaces and the walking surface together forming a continuous horizontal walkway.

Methods are disclosed in which a user performs head and neck exercises with head and neck exercise apparatuses. The head and neck exercise apparatus may include a moveable element that is displaced by tongue movement to a predetermined distance or with a predetermined force. The moveable element or another component of the head and neck exercise apparatus may be configured to generate audible, visible, or vibratory feedback. The head and neck exercise apparatus may be configured such that the moveable element is modifiable.

A device for training and rehabilitation of a limb is provided. The device provides a board with a plurality of movement tracks to allow for controlled movement of the limb in various directions. Blockers and other controlling structures may be arranged on the device to limit range of motion of the movement of the limb.

An exercising apparatus for exercising at least one limb, having a supporting frame and at least one crank which is arranged on a rotation shaft assigned to the supporting frame, and having at least one limb support which can be fastened to the at least one crank at different radial distances from the rotation shaft. A detector is provided for detecting the radial distance of the at least one limb support from the rotation shaft. The invention further relates to a limb support and to a method for determining the force acting on a limb support of an exercising apparatus.

An oral device includes an intraoral bolus simulator having an exterior surface and an interior volume fillable with a fluid. An extraoral user interface extends from the bolus simulator, and can be used to locate or position the intraoral bolus simulator. In various embodiments, the fluid may be a gas or a liquid, or combinations thereof. In other embodiments, an oral device includes an extraoral handle, a shield connected to the handle, a tether extending from the shield, and a bolus simulator connected to the tether.

Systems for training an animal, such as a rodent, to maintain its head substantially motionless during an imaging procedure using an imaging and training system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the imaging and training system includes a frame defining an enclosure for enclosing an animal therein during the imaging procedure. The frame includes a head post that is attached to the head of the animal and a treadmill having a plurality of rollers that the animal is in operative contact such that one or more of the plurality of wheels rotate when the animal is in a walking motion and stop rotating when the animal is in a substantially motionless state. This arrangement trains the animal to remain substantially motionless when disposed within an imaging apparatus.