Patents Assigned to TheraGolf, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6176790
    Abstract: A method for swing training particularly suitable to golf and sports employing a similar swing is disclosed wherein balls of varying sizes, weights, and pliability are placed between a limb and a reactionary surface to restrict movement of a limb and nearby limbs wherein specific muscles groups are stretched and trained while imitating swing motion to induce muscle memory. The balls are placed in strategic locations including between the knees, between the thighs, under an armpit, between two arms stretched forward, cupped in two hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: TheraGolf, Ltd.
    Inventor: Frank A. Latella
  • Patent number: 5839968
    Abstract: A method for swing training particularly suitable to golf and sports employing a similar power swing is disclosed wherein preferably pliable body spacer objects such as balls of varying sizes, weights, and pliability are placed between a limb and another body surface to restrict movement of said limb wherein specific muscles groups are stretched and trained while imitating swing motion to induce muscle memory. A lightweight ball of at least 25 cm. diameter is placed between the thighs and a smaller ball, e.g. a medicine ball of about 10-25 cm. diameter is gripped between the elbows. Also a ball or other object may be gripped under an armpit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: TheraGolf, Ltd.
    Inventor: Frank A. Latella