Therapeutic vibratory bath

Claim 1

In an apparatus for providing a selectable therapeutic treatment to an individual in need of such treatment and wherein the individual is positioned within a fluid medium contained within a fluid containment vessel having walls defining a fluid containment chamber, the improvement comprising: a plurality of vibratory devices disposed exteriorly about the periphery of the fluid containment vessel and attached to the walls of said vessel, each vibratory device being capable of vibrating the vessel to produce vibratory motion within the fluid medium contained within the fluid containment chamber sufficient to move said medium for passive movement of said patient; means for attaching the vibratory devices to the walls of the vessel; a casing within which the containment vessel and the vibratory devices are disposed; an arm means carried by each vibratory device for attaching each vibratory device to a location of the wall of the containment vessel; means carried by each vibratory device for attaching each vibratory device to a location of the casing, the vibratory devices being substantially held in tension between the casing and the containment vessel, the vibratory motion producable by each vibratory device being efficiently transmittable through the arm means attached thereto to the containment vessel and then to the fluid medium within the containment chamber; means for selectably controlling the operation of the vibratory devices in order to operate the devices in desired vibration wave patterns, the vibration wave patterns being selectable from a variety of possible wave patterns to cause a specific therapeutic result; and wherein the containment vessel is formed of a resilient material and is cylindrical in conformation.