| 摘要 |
A muscular therapy treatment apparatus for patient self-treatment in applying concentrated pressure to deep muscle attachments in the lamina groove on either side of the spinous processes of spine vertebrae to relax and lengthen the muscles therein and cause vertebrae alignment without the forcing of bone. Each embodiment of the apparatus has a rigid planar base support and a treatment member depending upwardly therefrom with a pair of sharp edges on its curved upper peripheral surface. A groove separates the sharp edges and receives the spinous processus of vertebrae when a patient becomes positioned on top of or against the peripheral surface during use. The groove can have straight interior walls intersecting at an angle between 60 DEG to 70 DEG , or it can have an arcuate configuration. The present invention discloses a variety of partial-spine treatment embodiments, as well as a whole-spine treatment embodiment that allows all of the muscles flanking the spinal column to be treated at once. The peripheral surfaces of the embodiments used for the cervical and lumbar regions of the spine conform to the natural concave curvature of those regions. However, it is preferred that the curved peripheral surface of the thoracic region treatment embodiments have a configuration slightly reversing the curvature of that region in a prone patient. Also, in the whole-spine treatment apparatus, approximately one-third of the base support, specifically that in the lumbar region, has a raised thickness dimension.
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