Patent ID: 7901327
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: A61H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A neck rehabilitation device for exercising the muscles of a person's neck and upper back, comprising: a rear neck-engaging assembly positionable at least partially about the person's neck for engaging a rear side of the person's neck, said assembly including an elastic strap for extending and being stretched about the rear side of the person's neck to exert a forward-directed force on the person's neck and a resilient compressible member providing resistance to compression for use in exercising the muscles of the person's neck and upper back while said elastic strap is stretched about the person's neck, said resilient compressible member including spaced-apart, non-contacting, rigid upper and lower supports each having opposite ends and being interconnected only at said opposite ends by a pair of resistance coils enabling said supports to be compressed toward one another during neck exercises and resiliently expanded away from one another, said upper support being engagable with an upper portion of the person's neck at a base of the skull when said lower support is engaged with a base of the person's neck adjacent the person's shoulders, said elastic strap having opposite ends connected to said resistance coils such that said elastic strap extends directly between said resistance coils, said resistance coils providing the only juncture between said upper and lower supports and said elastic strap, and the neck rehabilitation device further comprising a pair of handles with one of said handles extending from one of said resistance coils and the other of said handles extending from the other of said resistance coils.