Patent ID: 6293916
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
A method for specifically respositioning the bony architectural alignment of human feet using at least one pair of raised pads, each having a pad surface, resting on a sufficiently resilient floor or floorboard surface, the pads and floor or floorboard surface are sufficient to apply the amount of pressures necessary to reposition the bony architectural alignment of human feet, in which each raised pad is of a size sufficient to apply pressure to only a portion of an arch when stepping on the pads, the method comprising the steps of:(a) using the pad surfaces to substantially simultaneously apply a sequence of definite pressures, sufficient to apply pressure to overlying muscles, tendons and bones of the foot to both medial longitudinal arches of a user's feet beginning the sequence with a forward area approximately underlying the foot's joints between the first metatarsal bones and first cuneiform bones, then further applying at least a second pressure in the sequence to the rearward area of the medial longitudinal arches approximately underlying the talus bones, then(b) using the pad surfaces to substantially simultaneously apply a sequence of definite pressures, sufficient to apply pressure to overlying muscles, tendons and bones of the foot to both lateral longitudinal arches of a user'feet, beginning the sequence with a rearward area approximately located under the joint between the cuboid and calcaneus bones, then further applying at least a second pressure in the sequence to the lateral longitudinal arches approximately underlying the center of the fourth metatarsal bones, then(c) using the pad surfaces to substantially simultaneously apply a sequence of definite pressures, sufficient to apply pressure to overlying muscles, tendons and bones of the foot to both transverse arches including the longitudinal center of a user's feet, beginning the sequence with a forward area approximately located under the center of the second metatarsal bones, then further applying at least a second pressure in the sequence to the rearward area of the transverse arches approximately underlying the junction of the talus bone, cuboid, and calcaneum bones, then(d) ending the method using one of the pad surface to apply a unilateral final definite pressure, sufficient to apply pressure to overlying muscles, tendons and bones of the foot, to the region approximately underlying the junction of the talus bone, cuboid and calcaneum of the user's non-handedness side of the body's foot or the contralateral foot of the handedness side of the body,whereby the intensity and duration of the applied pressures are adequate to reposition the bony architecture of the feet effected by the method.