Patent ID: 8021283

Claim:
A pressure muscle strength increasing apparatus comprising: a tight fitting device including a belt having the length that is enough to be wrapped around a predetermined range of muscles of one of the limbs; fastening means for fastening said belt with said belt being wrapped around said predetermined range of muscles; and a gas bag provided in or on said belt, said gas bag being adapted to apply a predetermined compression force to said predetermined range of muscles by means of compressing said predetermined range of muscles when said gas bag is filled with gas while said belt that has been wrapped around said predetermined range of muscles is fastened by said fastening means; pressure setting means that is capable of forcing a gas into said gas bag and removing the gas from said gas bag; control means for controlling said pressure setting means in order to change said compression force; and quantification means for quantifying, at a position closer to the distal end of a limb than said predetermined range of muscles, a quantification target that is associated with the state of blood flow that varies depending on said compression force; said control means controlling said pressure setting means based on said quantification target, wherein said quantification means is adapted to quantify said quantification target at a given time instant, and said control means is adapted to control said pressure setting means over time based on the quantification target at that time instant, further comprising recording means on which ideal data that is the data relating to an ideal quantification target is recorded, wherein the ideal data represents an association between an elapsed time from the beginning of use of the pressure muscle strength increasing apparatus and the quantification target that is considered to be ideal at that time; said control means being adapted to compare the quantification target at a given time instant with an ideal quantification target that is represented by the ideal data read out of said recording means, and to control said pressure setting means so that the control is performed to make the quantification target at that time instant be closer to said ideal quantification target by increasing or decreasing the pressure setting.