JP2553435B2 - Function improver for fingers, etc. - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a function improving machine for fingers and the like, and more particularly to an improvement of a bag for accommodating an air bag for expanding the fingers and extending and flexing the wrist joint.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Functions on the forearm, arm joints, hands and fingers due to diseases and disorders of the central nervous system such as cerebrovascular disorders, cerebral trauma, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and peripheral neuropathy, joints and muscle disorders. When a disorder occurs, it is necessary to carry out training to restore motor function together with treatment of these diseases and disorders. However, it has been said that the recovery of the functions of the arm joints, hands, and fingers has been extremely difficult since ancient times, and despite a lot of research being conducted in recent rehabilitation medicine, a satisfactory function improving device has not yet been developed. The current situation is that it has not reached the end. For example, even if an attempt is made to extend flexion contracture or extension disordered arm joints, hands, and fingers by the action of air pressure or spring, the movement is often complicated and an extra burden is placed on the patient, which should be satisfied. No results have been obtained.

The applicant of the present application has developed a function improving device for fingers and the like as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 63-50326. This invention is a glove body (glove base cloth) in the form of expanding fingers, and a finger stopper for fixing each finger individually on the front side of this glove base cloth with each finger expanded, It has wrist joints that fix the back of the hand, wrist and arm stops that fix the glove body to the wrist, and a bag body that stores the air bag for expanding the fingers between the fingers. On the back side, there is a bag body accommodating an air bag for joint extension extending from the palm to the inner arm surface of the arm, and each air bag is connected to the compressed air supply / exhaust device by an air tube. By supplying compressed air to each of these air sacs and exhausting the air after the required time is repeated, the extension and dorsiflexion movements of the hand joint with the dysfunction and the expansion movements of the fingers are performed rhythmically and intermittently. In addition to improving flexion contracture and extension disorder of the patient, it also creates a factor that induces automatic movement.

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The invention disclosed in the above publication is capable of exhibiting an unprecedentedly high therapeutic effect, is highly evaluated by the medical community, and is generally satisfactory. However, there are still problems in the following points. In the above invention, as the bag body for storing the air sacs, the bag bodies for storing eight air sacs are used on the front side and the back side of the glove body. On the front side of the glove body, since the bag of the air sac used between the index finger and the middle finger, the middle finger and the ring finger, and the ring finger and the little finger can be shared (see Fig. 1), the bag of the air sac used between the thumb and the index finger. Together with this, the bag base fabric can be obtained from two types of paper patterns. Therefore, as far as the front side of the glove body is concerned, there is no particular problem such as working time for sewing the bag body and variations among products.

However, as shown in FIG. 8, on the back side 81 of the glove base cloth of the glove body 80, there are provided bag bodies 82 to 85 having different shapes for accommodating the air sac like the front side. These are four bag bodies obtained by cutting bag base fabrics having different shapes according to four types of patterns from the cloth, attaching fasteners 82a to 85b, and stitching each seam allowance (not shown). 82 to 85 are formed. Then, the bag bodies 82 to 85 are sewn to the back side 81 of the glove base cloth, and the adjacent portions of the bag bodies 82 to 85 are sewn together for finishing.

As described above, when the number of types of bags is large, various inconveniences occur. For example, it takes time to cut the bag base cloth from the cloth, and it takes time to sew the bag body. Further, since the bags are separated and independent, it takes time to sew on the glove base fabric, and variations in sewing are likely to occur. In particular, the bag body 83 and the bag body 85 are large in size and are arranged and formed so as to extend over a wide range from the entire palm to the inner arm surface of the forearm, and further, the darts that determines the degree of dorsiflexion during extension exercise. Since it has 86, it is difficult to achieve uniform sewing. When the bag body 83 and the bag body 85 are sewn unevenly, the bag body 83 and the bag body 85 may be twisted or different in size, and in the darts 86, the bag body 83 and the bag body 8 may be different.
Differences will occur in the dorsiflexion angle and dorsiflexion position of No. 5. In other words, the deformation of the glove body 80 itself is an obstacle for achieving a higher therapeutic effect, and there is a problem of how to make such product variations (product shape and dorsiflexion) uniform. are doing.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above problems, and reduces the types of bags for accommodating the air sacs, shortens each process from cutting to sewing, and makes the products uniform. , Aim to provide products with higher practical value.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a glove body which is applied to the palm and fixed to each finger by finger-stopping means and at the same time by fixing hand and arm by arm-stopping means. There is a bag containing the air sacs for expanding the fingers on the front side of the cloth, and a bag containing the air sacs for joint extension on the back side of the base cloth.The air sacs inside these bags are inflated by the supply and exhaust of compressed air. In a function improving device for fingers, etc., which is designed to expand the fingers and extend the wrist joints by contracting, a standard base cloth is cut from the cloth to form a standard base cloth. And two or more bag pieces adjacent to each other are formed. In this case, a bag having two or more bag pieces is formed by a standard base cloth cut with one pattern paper, and the other bag adjacent to this bag has the back surface of the standard base cloth as a surface. Or formed into a bag body having two or more bag pieces by a standard base cloth cut with one pattern paper, and another bag body adjacent to this bag body has the surface of the above-mentioned pattern paper. It can be cut as the back side. The bag piece described above is composed of a long bag piece and a short bag piece, and a dart is provided at a substantially central portion of the long bag piece to form a long bag piece. It is preferably formed in a substantially V shape.

[0009]

The present invention thus constructed has the following operations. If you sew a standard fabric cut from the fabric,
A bag body having two or more bag pieces adjacent to each other is formed via the valley folds of the standard base cloth. In addition, the other bag adjacent to this bag is turned over from the cut bag base fabric, or
When the pattern paper is turned upside down, the standard base cloth is cut and sewn in the same manner as above, a symmetrical bag body is formed on the bag body. Among the formed bag pieces, the long one is provided with a darts at substantially the center thereof, so that the bag body is bent at an appropriate angle from the substantially central portion. When these bags are sewn on the back side of the base cloth of the glove body so as to be adjacent to each other, the air bag is arranged and formed so as to extend in a wide range from the entire palm to the inner arm surface of the forearm. Further, the darts provided on the elongated bag portion allows the glove body to have a natural dorsiflexion shape.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. In each drawing, the glove body for the right hand of the function improving device for fingers and the like is shown, but the left hand is not shown because it is formed symmetrically for the right hand and has the same operation and effect. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the glove body 1
Is a finger stopper 5-9 for fixing fingers to the front side 2a of the glove base cloth.
The finger stop 5 is the thumb, the finger stop 6 is the index finger, and the finger stop 7
Indicates the middle finger, finger stop 8 corresponds to the ring finger, and finger stop 9 corresponds to the little finger. Bags 10 to 1 with fasteners 10a to 13a between five fingers placed on the front side 2a of the glove base cloth.
3 are provided, and air sacs 10b to 13b for expanding fingers are housed in the bags 10 to 13, respectively.

A fastener 19 is provided on the back side 2b of the glove base cloth.
Bag A with 20 and bag B symmetrical to this bag A
Is provided. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 6, the bag A (B) is composed of a short bag part 14 (17) and a long bag part 15 (16), and each bag part 14-17. Air sacs 14a to 17a for joint extension are housed therein. On the other hand, the glove body 1 is provided with an arm stopper 3 for stopping the wrist and the forearm, and a joint band 4 for stopping the back of the hand is provided near the base of the thumb and forefinger of the glove base fabric front side 2a. Eight air tubes 18 are connected to each of the air sacs 10b to 13b and 14a to 17a, and the air tubes 18 are bundled by a tube band 47 and connected to the coupler 23. It can be easily attached to and detached from an exhaust device (not shown).

The bag A (B) described above has a structure as shown in FIG. 5, and is formed as follows. First,
A standard base cloth 4 for the bag A along the pattern (not shown) from the cloth
Cut 0. The air bag 14a (17
a), a fastener window 48 for taking in and out 15a (16a) is opened, and the slider cover 2 is attached to the fastener window 48.
Sew fasteners 19 to 21 together with 2. Next, the mountain folds 50 to 53 indicated by the dotted lines are mountain folds, and the sewn portions 55 to 57 that are in contact with each other are sewn together to form the short bag portion 14 (17). In addition, when the mountain folds 58 to 61 indicated by the dotted line are mountain-folded and the stitching portions 67 to 70 that are in contact with each other are sewn together, the elongated bag portion piece 15 is inserted through the valley fold 41 indicated by the dashed line. (1
6) is formed. Then, the long bag part 15 (1
6) The sewn portions 71 and 72 in the approximate center are sewn inward to form the darts 42, and the bag A (B) having a substantially V-shape is completed.

Since the bag body B has a symmetrical shape to the bag body A, it can be obtained by performing the steps by turning the standard base cloth 40 from the cloth and turning it over. In addition, since the paper pattern may be turned over and the cloth may be cut, any means is appropriately selected depending on the implementation. In the finished bags A and B, the mountain folds 53, 54 and the mountain folds 62 to 65 are mountain-folded, and the folding piece 43 is folded back inside the bags A and B, as shown in FIG. The bag piece 15 and the bag piece 16 are sewn to the place indicated by the two-dot chain line on the back side 2b of the glove base fabric so as to be adjacent to each other. At this time, the bag piece 14 (17)
And the valley fold of the bag piece 15 (16) are also on the back side 2 of the glove base cloth.
Sew to the place indicated by the two-dot chain line in b. Then, the adjacent portions 44 to 46 of the bag pieces 14 to 17 provided on the back side 2b of the glove base fabric are sewn together to integrate the bag pieces 14 to 17 to integrate the air sacs 14a to 17a for joint extension. Make sure that the shape of the glove body 1 does not collapse when compressed air is sent to.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 7, when the palm is placed on the glove body 1, the thumb is fixed to the finger stop 5, the index finger is stopped to the finger stop 6, the middle finger is stopped to the finger stop 7, the ring finger is stopped to the finger stop 8, and the little finger is stopped to the finger stop 9. Are individually fixed to. The wrist and forearm are securely fixed to the glove body 1 by fixing velvet fasteners provided on the arm stopper 3. After that, the back of the hand and the finger joints are fixed with the two joint bands 4, and the palm and the glove body 1 are brought into close contact with each other.

In this state, the coupler 23 to which the air tube 18 is connected is connected to a compressed air supply / exhaust device (not shown), and the air sacs 10b to 13b for expanding the fingers and the air sacs 14a to 17a for extending the joints are connected. When compressed air is fed into, they undergo expansion. Each of the air sacs 10b to 13b for expanding the fingers causes the expansion of each finger by expansion, and each air sacs 14 for expanding the fingers.
a to 17a cause expansion and dorsiflexion of the interphalangeal joints and wrist joints by expansion. In this way, each air bag 10b-13b,
And 14a to 17a are repeatedly supplied with compressed air and exhausted after the required time elapses, thereby performing rhythmic and intermittent movements of the extension dorsiflexion of the hand joint with the dysfunction and the expansion of the fingers. In addition to improving the flexion contracture and extension disorder of the patient, the factors that induce automatic movement are created.

In the glove body 1 of the present embodiment, the bag A and the bag B are different only in whether the standard base cloth 40 is used inside out or the pattern base cloth 40 is cut inside with the pattern paper inside out. Therefore, they are substantially the same members. Therefore, the bag body A and the bag body B described above are common to the left hand glove body (not shown), that is, the bag body A is the bag body B of the left hand glove body, and the bag body B is the left hand. It can be used as the bag body A of the glove body. Comparing this with the conventional product shown in FIG.
There are 2 types of bags, from 7 types on the left and right sides of the glove body (since the bag body 83 is common on the left and right sides),
The time from cutting the material to sewing can now be reduced to about 1/3. Moreover, since the types of bags are unified and the variations in sewing are eliminated, the bags A and B are twisted and have a difference in size, and the bags A in the darts 42 are not.
Therefore, the glove body 1 itself is never deformed due to the difference in the dorsiflexion angle or the dorsiflexion position of the bag body B.

Further, all the fasteners 10 of the glove body 1
a to 13a, slider covers 22 provided on 19 to 21
According to the above, it is possible to prevent a patient with a hand or finger from abruptly contacting the glove body 1 and the body during treatment and being injured by the slider. Furthermore, the tube band 47 allows the eight air tubes 18 to be bundled into one, and prevents the air tubes 18 from being entangled or damaged.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following excellent effects can be obtained. In this way, one bag body is formed from a plurality of bag parts, and since the bag body is made common, the number of types of bag bodies can be reduced, and the bag body is formed by cutting the standard base cloth. The time to sew can be greatly reduced. Also, since the bag body can be made uniform, variations in sewing of the bag body can be eliminated, so that the dorsiflexion condition of the glove body itself is completely equalized, and the glove body when compressed air is sent to each air bag during use. Since there is no twist or deformation, it is possible to obtain a uniform product between products. As a result, it is possible to provide a product with high practical value, which can be expected to have a higher therapeutic effect than ever before.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a front side of a glove body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing the back side of the glove body.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an XX cut end surface of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a Y-Y cut end surface of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a state where the bag body is unfolded.

FIG. 6 is a view showing an arrangement state of a bag body to be sewn on a standard base cloth.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a usage state of a glove body in the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration of a bag body on a back side of a glove body in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 glove body 2a glove base cloth front side 2b glove base cloth back side 14-17 bag part piece 19-21 fastener 40 standard base cloth 41 valley folding part A, B bag body

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP-A-59-228841 (JP, A) JP-A-59-28959 (JP, A) JP-A-60-83657 (JP, A) JP-A-63- 309260 (JP, A) Actual opening 60-10636 (JP, U) Actual opening 62-74824 (JP, U) Actual opening 63-50326 (JP, U) Actual opening Flat 4-20329 (JP, U)

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bag which is applied to the palm and is used to fix each finger by finger-stopping means and at the same time to fix a forearm by arm-stopping means, and a bag in which a finger-spreading air bag is housed on the base cloth front side of the glove body. It has a body and a bag body containing air bags for joint extension on the back side of the base cloth. By expanding and contracting the air bags in these bag bodies by supplying and exhausting compressed air, the expansion of the fingers and the joints of the wrists are performed. In function improvers such as fingers that are designed to extend,
Cut from the fabric to form a standard base cloth, and this standard base cloth is
A function improving device for fingers, etc., characterized in that two or more bag pieces adjacent to each other are formed via valley folds. 2. A fixed base cloth cut with one pattern paper
The bag body having the bag piece described above is formed, and another bag body adjacent to this bag body is formed with the back surface of the standard base cloth as the front surface. Function improver for hands and fingers. 3. A standard base cloth cut with a piece of pattern paper to provide 2
A bag body having the bag piece described above is formed, and another bag body adjacent to this bag body is obtained by cutting the front surface of the above-mentioned paper pattern as the back surface. Function improver. 4. The above-mentioned bag part is composed of a long bag part and a short bag part, and a dart is provided substantially at the center of the long bag part to form a long bag. 4. The function improving device for fingers and the like according to claim 1, wherein the piece is formed in a substantially V shape.