MANUEL DIAZ, JR
Electrician at Sadler St, Houston, TX

4759544, Jul 26, 1988

Oct 2, 1985

6/783167

Manuel S. Diaz - Houston TX

A63B 2100

272 93

An aquatic exercise apparatus for strengthening muscles while simultaneously providing hydrotherapeutic massage to the occupant comprises an enclosure filled with a liquid and an exercise device disposed within the enclosure which when operated in the liquid produces hydrodynamic resistance, deflection of the liquid, fluid resistance, and generation of fluid currents and turbulence within the enclosure. The enclosure bottom and side wall are adapted to cooperate with fluid currents generated by the occupant and exercise device when operated in the liquid to assist in generation of fluid currents and turbulence within the enclosure. The occupant's body movements also produce hydrodynamic resistance, deflection of the liquid, fluid resistance, and generation of fluid currents and turbulence within the enclosure, and as a result of the movements of the occupant and the exercise device, the occupant receives beneficial hydrotherapeutic massage on the submerged body portions by the liquid motion thus generated within the enclosure. Medicants may be introduced into the liquid medium to supplement the beneficial effect of the occupant's hydrotherapeutic massage. Additives may also be introduced into the liquid medium to alter the fluid flow and buoyancy characteristics of the liquid, and alter physical stress during exercise.