| 摘要 |
Method and apparatus for exercising and/or testing the cervical muscles of the neck wherein a seated person is secured against a backrest to isolate movement of his head and neck from the remainder of his body. For exercising the cervical muscles between opposite positions of full extension and flexion, the muscles are used to move the head rearwardly against a pivotable movement arm to move the latter against a yieldable resistance weight connected to the movement arm to bias the movement arm in one direction. The head is then moved forwardly and the process is repeated until the movement arm can no longer be moved by said muscles. The number of repetitions is measured and recorded throughout the exercise. In another mode of the apparatus, the static strength of said muscles is measured at several angular positions of the neck by fixing the movement arm against movement in each position and having the person exert said muscles to press the head rearwardly against the movement arm during which the force exerted by said muscles is measured and recorded.
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