Patent ID: 7686740

Claim:
An exercise device to strengthen and rehabilitate the shoulder of an arm of a person utilizing the exercise device, the exercise device comprising: a splint, where the splint is a static hand-wrist orthosis and includes a splint shell configured to be attached to an arm to restrain a wrist between the arm and a hand from moving in a turning motion, a forearm strap attached to the splint shell, and a hand strap attached to the splint shell, where the splint shell has a shell bump having a shell bump peak and has a splint palm side located on a side opposite that of the shell bump peak and located adjacent to both the shell bump and the hand strap, where the splint palm side is configured to contact a palm of a hand; a container having a container shell, where the container shell includes a container shell interior surface surrounding a container shell void, where the container shell interior surface forms a spherical surface having a container shell interior center and a container shell interior diameter passing through the container shell interior center; and where a container shell exterior surface forms a spherical surface; and a ball positioned within the container shell void and having a ball center and a ball diameter, where, when the exercise device is moved by the arm, both the container and the ball rotate together with the ball center additionally moving around a circumference that follows a circumference of the container shell interior surface, where the container is rigidly attached to the splint so that the container shell interior center is so positioned and fixed in place relative to the splint palm side as to be outside of a four inch hand grab radius of a hand of the arm wherein the exercise device is attachable to an arm so that the splint palm side is adjacent to a palm of a hand, and where the container is configured to be positioned perpendicularly remote from a palm and be positioned below a wrist when the exercise device is attached to an arm, and where moving and rotating the entire arm works to move and rotate the container and to move and rotate the ball within and relative to the container to strengthen and rehabilitate the shoulder of the arm.