Abstract: A Rising Seat that can be fixed permanently to a seat or toilet and which can also be readily adapted as a portable seat. It comprises a top rising section on which the user sits, pivoted to a bottom section. There is at least one torsion spring located on a torsion bar that may also act as a hinge. When the legs of any selected number of springs are placed in spaces/openings incorporated in the seat, those springs become inoperable having been moved away from firm surfaces on the rising seat against which they give resilience to the top section. This enables adjustment to be made to suit the weight of the user, and when the legs of all the springs are placed in the spaces/openings the top section can be folded down without resilience for carriage and storage and to give the appearance of a standard seat cushion when not in use.

Abstract: A convex body support pad (2) mounted inside a rigid frame (5) by resilient means (6) and placed inside a case containing filling to form a portable cushion. The convex support pad may be a solid lump or may be hollow and may contain a vibrator. The resilient fixings may be attached at their one end to the convex pad and at their other end to the frame or the resilient fixings may be fixed to a plate on to which the convex support pad is fixed or of which it is a part. The convex support pad may be resting on springs or other resilient materials stretched across the frame to give localized support and/or vibratory treatment to the user, or fixed to the springs as aforesaid.