Chair for exercise or physical therapy

Abstract

A chair designed for individuals that sit and work for long hours in front of laptops, desktops, or mobile devices to stay fit by providing a means to generally exercise a user's neck, shoulders, elbows, thighs, legs and feet. The chair may include a retractable pull for general hand and feet exercises, or a head cushion for general neck and spine exercises, or an elbow cushion for general elbow and shoulder exercises, or a thigh compression spring for general leg and thigh exercises.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A chair comprising:
 a seat;   a chair back, said chair being operable to support a user's back when sitting in said chair;   an arm rest; and   at least one handle, said at least one handle being configured to retractably protrude from said arm rest and/or said seat and/or chair back, said at least one handle being further configured and disposed to enable the user to forcibly engage said at least one handle to accomplish a physical activity, which physical activity to at least include exercise or physical therapy, said at least one handle being further configured with a retraction mechanism being operable to selectively retract said handle into an internal compartment of said seat and/or arm rest and/or chair back.   
     
     
         2 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising a head cushion, said head cushion being configured to be operable to resistively move generally away from a user's head position when a force is applied against said head cushion, said head cushion being further adapted to provide a generally opposing force to said applied force until said head cushion returns to a generally neutral position. 
     
     
         3 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said elbow cushion further comprises at least one or more elbow cushions, said at least one or more elbow cushions is adapted to provide a substantially resistive force against an applied force until said elbow cushions return to an original position. 
     
     
         4 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said arm rest further comprises at least one or more arm rests, said at least one or more arm rests further comprises extendable arms which generally extend from said plurality of arm rests. 
     
     
         5 . The chair as recited in  claim 4 , in which said extendable arms further comprises a board onto which a user may place electronic devices and other objects. 
     
     
         6 . The chair as recited in  claim 5 , in which said board further comprises a pad. 
     
     
         7 . The chair as recited in  claim 6 , in which said board further comprises at least one or more holders. 
     
     
         8 . The chair as recited in  claim 7  in which said board further comprises at least one or more holes. 
     
     
         9 . The Chair as recited in  claim 8 , in which said board further comprises at least one object holding groove in a lower portion of the back of said chair and at least one elastic band at or near an upper portion thereof, said holding groove(s) being operable for constraining a lower portion of at least one object, and said at least one elastic band being operable for constraining an upper portion of the at least one object, said elastic band being optionally configured to be capable of being rolled over to a front side of said chair whereby the user may strap said band around his/her shoulders and perform a back and forth exercises motion to possibly build abdominal strength. 
     
     
         10 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said chair further comprises means for providing an elbow exercise. 
     
     
         11 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said handle further comprises at least one or more handles adapted to fit a user's foot, wherein said one or more handles provide generally resistive force to applied pressure. 
     
     
         12 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said adjusting means allow said arm rests to be substantially raised or lowered. 
     
     
         13 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , in which said adjusting means allow said seat to be generally raised or lowered. 
     
     
         14 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising a thigh compression spring. 
     
     
         15 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising at least one hook, said at least one hook being configured with said chair to be operable for holding an object in place or resisting motion of an object engaged with said at least one hook. 
     
     
         16 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising at least one elastic strap being configured for exercising the user's legs. 
     
     
         17 . The chair as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising means for joining said elastic strap to said chair. 
     
     
         18 . The chair as recited in  claim 14 , in which said thigh compression spring is configured to folds into and out of said chair and configured to provide a generally resistive force to an applied pressure against generally opposing sides of said thigh compression spring. 
     
     
         19 . A chair comprising:
 a seat;   a chair back to support a user's back wherein said chair back is generally curved in a shape of a spinal cord;   a retractable pull;   a removable head cushion, in which said head cushion generally moves backward when a force is applied against said head cushion, wherein said head cushion is configured to apply a generally opposing spring-like force to said applied force until said head cushion returns to an essentially upright original position;   an elbow cushion, in which said elbow cushion further comprises at least one or more elbow cushions in a original position, said elbow cushions is configured to provide a substantially resistive force against an applied force until said elbow cushions returns to said original position;   an arm rest, in which said arm rest further comprises at least one or more arm rests wherein said at least one or more arm rests further comprises extendable arms which generally extends from said arm rests and adapted to support a board;   a handle, said handle generally retracts into said chair as a default position, in which said handle further comprises at least one or more handles adapted to fit a user's foot, wherein said at least one or more handles is configured to provide a generally resistive force to an applied pressure until said at least one or more handles returns to said default position;   an adjusting means;   a thigh compression spring, in which said thigh compression spring is configured to provide a generally resistive force to an applied pressure against opposing sides of said thigh compression spring;   a hook substantially located below a top plane of said seat so as to substantially reduce visibility of said hook;   a foot rest;   at least one elastic strap being configured for exercising the user's legs; and   means for joining said elastic strap to said chair.   
     
     
         20 . A chair comprising:
 means for vertically supporting a user to sit thereupon;   an arm rest;   handle means for providing a physical activity to the user while sitting in said chair, in which said supported physical activity at least includes exercise or physical therapy;   means for selectively retracting said handle into an internal compartment of said seat and/or arm rest and/or chair back;   means for supporting the user's back when the user is sitting in said chair;   means for exercising the user's neck; and   means for exercising the user's legs.