Patent ID: 6780142
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: A61H,A63B

Abstract:
A lower limb function training device for the motivative exercise or rehabilitation of the lower extremities of a user, including a foot rest for supporting both feet of said user, said foot rest connected to casters and/or to guide portions of support structures such that said foot rest is arranged to slidably reciprocate in a longitudinal and/or transverse directions, a round-trip movement number sensing device that detects a number of reciprocating motions of the foot rest in the longitudinal and/or transverse directions and a brake device which brakes the reciprocating movement in the longitudinal and/or transverse directions when the number of reciprocating movements that the round-trip movement number sensing device reaches a pre-determined value, wherein the round trip movement consist of movement of the foot rest from a starting point to a point longitudinally forward from the starting point, to a point backward of the starting point and back forward to a staring point.