Patent ID: 7699763

Claim:
Exercise stretching and rehabilitation method and apparatus, comprising, in combination: a) means for support including a seat, for supporting the user's thighs, knees, calves, legs, b) a vertical supporting A-frame, upright posts carried by the A-frame, and a cross-member carried by the posts, the cross member having an axis, and the posts being adjustable vertically, c) a horizontal platform carried by the cross member and extending directly beneath the support member for supporting the support member, d) at least one block carried by the cross member to extend directly beneath the platform, the block, platform and means for support being pivotable about said axis, and the posts having tops located to substantially align with the bottom of the platform in platform horizontal position, e) a horizontally adjustable and angularly indexing T-brace pivotably carried by the platform to have multiple selectable fixed upright positions of connection to the platform and above the level of the at least one block, for allowing the user to alter variable leg, knee and thigh positions between about 30° and 90°, and between the platform and the T-brace which allows for a varied and multiple combination of user's trunk positions from flexion to hyperextension and rotation, which in turn allows the user to achieve a greater spinal stretching, decompression, and strengthening of the hamstrings, gluteus maximus, erector spinae and other associated spinal muscles, tendons and ligaments while strengthening abdominal core strength, said posts positioned to allow T-bar rotation between 90 degrees and 30, and body curl under the seat, f) and said seat configured and acting with the platform and T-bar for inducing stretching of the adductor musculature while contracting the abductor muscles producing posterior or external rotation of the user's ilium, thereby inducing distraction of the user's inguinal ligaments and associated adductor musculature anterior as the result of platform pivoting about the horizontal axis with varied degrees of leg, knee, thigh, trunk extension, flexion and rotation.