BALANCE TRAINING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose a novel riding posture and cause no trouble of its houseroom in a balance training device for training a balance capacity of a subject by rocking a seat on which the subject sits by a rocking mechanism and for applying an exercising load imitating the horseback riding to the subject. SOLUTION: The balance training device dispenses with a leg base, and the rocking mechanism is directly placed on a floor face 40 through a board 4, so that the height from the base of the rocking mechanism (the board 4) to the upper face of the set 2 is formed into a low height (a low profile) of such a level as to prevent the heels 43 from contacting with the floor face 40 in a state where the subject 41 sits thereon with the legs 42 stretched frontward as shown in Fig.6(a), or prevent the tiptoes 44 from contacting with the floor face 40 in a state where the subject 41 sits thereon with the legs 42 bent backward as shown in Fig.6(b). This proposal of the novel riding posture on the balance training device is expected to exert a novel exercise effect and dispenses with the leg base so as to be carried and cause no trouble of its houseroom. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT