MASSAGE INSTRUMENT Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61H15/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment, namely to massage instruments, and can be used both domiciliary, and in hospitals as a medicated product. A massage instrument comprises a body with a U-shaped handle, a working portion, massage elements. A working section has a wave-shaped axis in the form of all-around spiral directionality at a period of 360°n or a zig-zag three-dimensional axis with mounted massage elements of different size in the form of the balls and/or disks and/or star wheels and/or grater rolls. The axis is related to a hand drive mechanism or an electric drive, which is connected to the axis additionally through a rope with a safety enclosure. A working area is covered with a flexible sacking material from above. A part of the massage elements is presented in the form of permanent magnets, wherein n=2 is a minimum turning number.

EFFECT: invention enables the higher therapeutic effectiveness of the massage exposure ensured by the axis shape with the massage elements and the mechanic and magnetic exposure on the user's body surface.

3 cl, 8 dwg