Patent ID: 6254555
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
A diagnostic and therapeutic instrument, comprising:a graspable unitary body having a middle handle portion, an upper massaging portion, and a lower massaging portion disposed opposite from said upper massaging portion,said middle handle portion having a generally tubular shape, and a diameter slightly and decreasingly tapering from a point adjacent said lower massaging portion toward said upper massaging portion and a non-slip surface,said upper massaging portion having a front surface, a rear surface opposite from said front surface, and a pair of lateral surfaces disposed opposite one another and extending between said front and rear surfaces, said front and rear surfaces intersecting one another at an uppermost point of said instrument body to define an upper chisel-like tissue-engaging edge, said upper tissue-engaging edge being disposed substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of said instrument body and having a width lesser than the width of the middle handle portion of said instrument,said lower massaging portion extending downwardly and outwardly from said middle handle portion and terminating in an outwardly flared portion having a tissue-engaging curvilinear peripheral edge offset laterally from said middle handle portion.