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Ergometric device
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Inventors: Tkatchouk, Elena N.; Tsyganova, Tatiana N.; Staebler, Regula;
Assignee: Tradotec S.A. (Geneva, CH)
Primary Examiner: Crow; Stephen R.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Burns; Robert E., Lobato; Emmanuel J.
The ergometric device has an ergometric stationary bicycle exerciser, a hypoxic gas generator, a mask, and a flexible hose connecting the generator to the mask. The user of the device sits on the saddle of the exerciser, and produces his effort by inhaling, through the mask, the hypoxic mixture. His ECG, his pulse rate and his blood pressure appear on the screen of the generator. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The ergometric device according to the present invention comprises an apparatus similar to the above-noted ones, and enables a person, athletic or not, to expend physical energy in measured and controlled quantities, during an adjustable time lapse, while reducing the hazards associated with exceeding the programmed safe load limits so as to make the latter safer, in particular for persons who suffer from pathologies of the system of the cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastro-intestinal, neuralgic, dermatologic or gynecologic types.
In view thereof, this device is characterized in that said apparatus is associated with a generator of hypoxic gas mixtures, i.
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having from 9 to 16% of oxygen and from 84 to 91% nitrogen, in volume, a mask destined to be applied on the user's face, and connecting means between said generator and said mask so that the user inhales this hypoxic mixture when expending his effort.
Inhalation of the hypoxic mixture may be continuous, discontinuous or alternated with air.
The outcome of this inhalation, made in a controlled fashion, and as evidenced by numerous tests, is the reduction of the risks associated with overloads and to the making safer of the limit loads, during the physical training of persons in good health, athletes for example, as well as for exercises performed by subjects suffering from the above-noted pathologies.
The continuous or discontinuous inhalation of the hypoxic mixture, or still its alternating with air breathing, programmed in a well defined fashion in each case, provides the following advantages: improvement of the resistance of the system to short or excessive overloads; adaptation of the system to the stress associated with these overloads; increase of the oxygen-carrying capability of the blood.
These various effects promote an improved stability of the energy metabolism to thus enable the oxygen consumed by the user to be more efficiently used, in particular about its vital organs.
The oxygennitrogen level of the hypoxic gas mixture will obviously be adjusted as a function of the physical loads to be attained by the subject and of the adaptation of his system to this mixture
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Exercise Devices 
