PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, as the purpose of the present invention, a rehabilitation instrument suitable for easily performing rehabilitation in a wrist, an arm, and a shoulder by one instrument, and to provide a method of moving a movable body of the rehabilitation instrument.SOLUTION: A rehabilitation instrument T includes: a body 1 an outer groove part 1S that is provided in the body 1 and spirally formed an inner groove part 1U that is provided in the body 1, communicating with the outer groove part 1S, and that is situated inside the outer groove part 1S and is formed along the outer groove part 1S and a movable body 2 that is freely movably provided in the inner groove part 1U and the outer groove part 1S. The outer groove part 1S and the inner groove part 1U are in communication form a circulation passage Z of the movable body 2. The outer groove part 1S is provided, successively toward the center, with a shoulder region outer groove part 1S1 which can move the movable body 2 by using a shoulder, with an arm region outer groove part 1S2 which can move the movable body 2 by using an arm, and with a wrist region outer groove part 1S3 which can move the movable body 2 by using a wrist.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1COPYRIGHT: (C)2019,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明の目的は、一つの用具で手首、肘、肩のリハビリを簡易に行うことができる好適なリハビリ用具及びリハビリ用具の移動体の移動方法を提供するものである。【解決手段】リハビリ用具Tは、本体1と、この本体1に設けられ、渦巻状に形成された外側溝部1Sと、本体1に設けられ、外側溝部1Sに連通し、外側溝部1Sの内側に位置すると共に、外側溝部1Sに沿って形成された内側溝部1Uと、この内側溝部1U及び外側溝部1Sに移動自在に設けられた移動体2とを備え、外側溝部1Sと内側溝部1Uは連通して、移動体2の循環路Zを形成し、外側溝部1Sは、中心に向かって順次、肩を使用して移動体2を移動できる肩領域外側溝部1S1、肘を使用して移動体2を移動できる肘領域外側溝部1S2、手首を使用して移動体2を移動できる手首領域外側溝部1S3を有する。【選択図】図1
