Patent ID: 7137961

Claim:
A portable spinal adjustment apparatus for assisting a user to adjust the user's spine, said apparatus combined with an independent support in deployment, said independent support including but not limited to chairs, stools, saw horses, chain and rope, said apparatus comprising: an elongate member having a first end and a second end, said elongate member defining a greatest dimension a substantially rigid substantially convex surface disposed between said first end and said second end of said elongate member, said elongate member shape selected from the group consisting of tubular, semi-circular and inverted U-shaped, said substantially rigid substantially convex surface defining a radius of about two to four inches for suitable spine-adjusting opposition pressure, said first end and said second end of said elongate member defining means to engage said independent support for safe and convenient deployment, said means to engage being selected from the group consisting of padding, deformable plastics, rubber, and stops for adherence and/or fixation and/or non-marring with respect to said independent support, said first end of said elongate member engaging said independent support and said second end of said elongate member engaging said independent support such that said substantially rigid substantially convex surface is horizontal and sufficient to transversely communicate with and contact an abdominal region of the user, said elongate member and said independent support in combination manifesting an arcuate fulcrum whereby in use of the apparatus, due to gravity acting on unsupported body regions of the user, said arcuate fulcrum exerts a spine-adjusting pressure to the supported body region such that adjacent vertebrae of the user's spine are urged radially and extensively along the supported body region for relieving pressure on adjacent discs.