PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gonalgia mitigation assist device promising the mitigation of the gonalgia by acting from the knee back side, opening the knee joint to a certain extent and recovering a cushion function.SOLUTION: A gonalgia mitigation assist device 10 includes: a three-dimensional knee-back pad member 12 that is applied to the back of a users knee, and sandwiched in a bent gap when the user bends the knees so as to open the knee joint in a lever-like manner holding means 14 that holds an arrangement state of the knee-back pad member 12 on the back of the knee even when the user bends the knees, with the knee-back pad member 12 applied thereto and a traction assist means 16 that assists an action of pulling a position close to the users ankle towards the user side, with the knee-back pad member 12 applied to the back of the users knee to forcibly bend the knee.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】膝裏側から作用させて膝関節をある程度開かせることにより、クッション機能を回復して膝痛の緩和を期待できる膝痛緩和補助装置を提供する。【解決手段】利用者の膝の裏にあてがわれ利用者が膝を曲げた際の屈曲間隙に挟み付けられて膝関節をてこ状に開かせる立体形状の膝裏あて部材12と、膝裏あて部材12をあてがった状態で利用者が膝を曲げても膝裏あて部材12の膝裏への配置状態を保持する保持手段14と、膝裏あて部材12を利用者の膝裏にあてがった状態で利用者の足首寄り位置を利用者側へ牽引して強制的に膝を曲げる作用を補助する牽引補助手段16と、を備えた膝痛緩和補助装置10から構成される。【選択図】図1
