Therabee™
Powerful tool in the
rehabilitation of cumulative trauma disorders. Stroke the rotor with your thumb
or roll it over a mouse pad and it starts spinning now with a left-right pivoting
wrist motion you feel the gyro force pull, increase the speed and feel the
power. Keep it in its rhythm by moving your hand at the rhythm.
Motion
of the Hand
: Therabee can be used to isolate
wrist flexors. Aids in the rehabilitation of Arthritic conditions. Therabee is
held by a prehensile power grip. The object is clamped by the partly flexed
fingers from cocontraction of the profundus and superficials flexor muscles, and
extensor digitorum. Also stabilizing demands are placed on both the volar and
dorsal interrossei and on the lumbricales. It is held in the palm by counter
pressure applied applied with the tumb in opposition. This is accomplished
by contraction ot the adductor pollicis and flexor pollicis longus and brevis.
In addition, static contraction of the opponens pollicis and opponens digiti
minimi occurs. During the work phase of the activity, these muscles are
exercised in an isometric manner, the length of the muscles is maintained, while
the tension within the muscle is increased and/or decreased as the demands of
the gyroscopic force change. Grip strength studies show that the limiting factor
appears to be the ability of the thumb to oppose the force of the fingers.
Therabee is able to successfully exercise these muscles, and their related
synergistic groups. Motion
of the forearm : Rotation
of the forearm also assists in maintaining the speed of Therabee. The pronator
and supinator groups act as antagonist, stabilizer and antagonist in a similar
fashion as the muscles of the wrist. The biceps brachii assist with supination,
and the brachioradialis assists in pronation to midpoint when the elbow is
flexed to 90 degrees. The action of the forearm is performed in mid-position to
pronation, and the radius is rotated across the ulna, or in the mid-position to
supination where the bones lie parallel to each other.
Therabee is a precisely
designed and engineered product for rehabilitation and/or strengthening of
specific muscles. As such this device should be treated with great care.
Therabee is white inside and transparent at the outside. Therabee delivered with
a wrist strap, in a cardboard tin with a picture of muscles in arm, wrist and
hand named on it.
Improves Performance :