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The invention belongs to supervisory technical field for distance treatment, particularly for applying far distance patient monitor system and centralized continuously monitoring process to high-risk people of heart disease. Said system comprising portable monitor carried by patients, hospital central monitor center, doctors' far distance group consultation terminal, ambulance monitor, communication net system, etc. The monitor process is, through communication network such as mobile , local, wireless and internet communication, making hospital central monitor center and portable monitor in and out of the hospital , ambulance carrying monitor and far distance group consultation real-time connecting, exchanging and transmitting information such as real-time ECG, blood pressure, etc., patient geographical location, doctor group consultation and advice, and far distance equipment remote measurement & program controlled in each terminal, realizing continuously monitor to high-risk people of heart disease, applying central remote measurements and program control of far distance mobile terminal, prior to coming on of heat disease early period proper diagnosis given and applying real-time treatment to serious patient, etc.

The invention provides a method, and dosage form therefor, of treating impaired motor function associated with Parkinson's disease, anti-Parkinson's drug treatment, e.g. L-Dopa therapy, and/or dementia associated with Parkinson's disease. The invention includes the combined administration of an NMDA receptor antagonist and an antidepressant, e.g., the combination of amantadine and citalopram or venlafaxine, or an NMDA receptor antagonist and an anxiolytic agent, e.g., amantadine and buspirone or trazodone, for the amelioration of undesired tremors, akinesia, dyskinesia, or bradykinesia associated with one or more different disorders or diseases. The drugs can be included in a single dosage form. One embodiment includes a combination dosage form containing each drug in controlled release forms. Another embodiment includes a combination dosage form providing a controlled release of an NMDA receptor antagonist and a rapid release of a neuroactive agent after administration to a subject.

The invention thus pertains to the use of a composition comprising: (a) uridine or uridine phosphate; and (b) docosahexaenoic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid, for improving memory and/or the treatment or prevention of impaired memory function, in a subject with a mini-mental state examination of 24-26, wherein said composition is enterally administered to the subject. In the MMSE test, any score of 27 or higher (out of 30) is effectively normal. In the patients with dementia, 20-26 indicates mild dementia, 10-19 moderate dementia, and below 10 severe dementia. It was the present inventors' belief that within the group of 20-26, the memory impairment in the sub-group of 24-26 may even be reversible, as the pathological pathways have just started to develop. In this group of subjects the pathological pathways have just started to develop. Clinical studies show excellent results for this subgroup.

A mobility system includes a wheeled base, an exoskeleton assembly, and a docking assembly arranged to support the exoskeleton assembly on the wheeled base. The exoskeleton assembly has an upper torso portion, upper leg portions pivotal relative to the torso portion and lower leg portions pivotal relative to respective ones of the upper leg portions. The docking assembly is operable to couple the exoskeleton assembly to the wheeled base in a sitting position. The seating surface in the sitting position and the position control motors for operating the exoskeleton from sitting to standing are all separable from the wheeled base together with the exoskeleton assembly. Alternatively, extensible links may dock the standing exoskeleton to the wheeled base so that the base can trail the exoskeleton through a walking motion.

An article of apparel including an integrated fabric system, with or without strategically-placed weighting and/or elastic resistant materials, which optimizes conditioning, strengthening, endurance, enhancement, training, performance, functional longevity, benefits of daily activity, movement therapy, and/or other diverse medical and/or therapeutic uses, and, all while reducing the possibility of injury. The article enables the user to receive medical and/or therapeutic benefits and to increase production of kinetic energy, through weighted and/or elastic resistance, as required by the user's particularized needs. The user may benefit from the medical/therapeutic properties during periods of activity or inactivity. Benefits are achieved through the integration of fabrics and strategically-placed weighting and/or elastic resistance materials into the article based upon the kinetic energy created, necessitated, and/or dissipated by a specific movement(s) and/or medical or therapeutic requirements.

This invention relates generally to a method and an apparatus for remote health monitoring of activity of daily living of patients with Type-2 Diabetes. In particular, it relates to a method of capturing vital signs data (Blood-Glucose values, weight) from medical devices, a variety of ambient sensors (on/off sensors, motion sensors, pressure-pad sensors), a body-wearable sensor (arm-band with accelerometer, stress and sleep measurements), and food/diet information uploaded via a web-based interface, then storing all the data in real-time on a secured server, and then processing it to generate short text-messages delivered via cell-phones, iPads or other ambient displays. These messages are designed to be persuasive in nature to alter human behavior. The system can also generate from the data health newsletter that is customized for the patient to educate, inform and empower the patient.

The invention discloses an indoor standing auxiliary vehicle, including a bottom frame and a carrier wheel, which has characteristics in that: the upper two side hand wheels connected with the carrierwheel through a belt drive are fixedly arranged on the middle vertical pole of the front side of the bottom frame. A table support frame connected to the upper pole and located on the upper side is disposed at a middle position of a knee top plate and a seat connected to the bottom frame, wherein the seat can be relatively opposed by the electric push rod. According to the indoor standing auxiliary vehicle disclosed by the invention, the structure is simple, the movement is coordinated, and the operation is convenient. Other life activities like walking and standing can be achieved in convenience and safety. The movement and steering of the indoor standing auxiliary vehicle can be achieved by rotating the hand wheel. The angle of the table plate can be adjusted; a protection device is arranged in the sitting process and the standing process; the height and the front-back distance adjustment can bead aiming at the people with different stature.

A double layer bedroom which is suitable to be applied in vehicles such as carriages of railway passenger cars, passenger ships and hotels comprises an upper sub bedroom and a lower bedroom which are combined mutually, and the floors 5-02, 5-01 in the upper sub bedroom and the lower sub bedroom are respectively higher than a corridor floor 13, and are connected with the corridor floor 13 conveniently by means of an auxiliary foot hold 15. A channel type washroom with a stool 32 and a finger bowl 33 is formed between an inner chamber door 8 of each sub bedroom and a door 7. A chair with armrest which can be modulated angles is formed by bed boards 18 which can be inverted and folded of a bed in bedroom and a seat stand 20. A double room can be formed by the communication between the adjacent left sub bedroom and right sub bedroom by means of a lateral wall door 9. A single passenger compartment which comprises 36 chairs, beds, washroom and video web devices and can communicated with an adjacent passenger compartment can be arranged in a standard 25-tye railway passenger car, thereby providing a comfortable private space with complete functions for passengers in small space.

A shoulder orthosis for long term support of a patient's arm in postoperative shoulder immobilization posture for rotator cuff tears, comprising a waist belt, an arm splint, and a piston and cylinder assembly interconnecting the waist belt to the splint and biasing the splint to an abduction upper limit position. The orthosis provides stable support of the forearm about a horizontal plane, while enabling both pivotal movement of the arm about a vertical axis intersecting the patient's elbow and towards or away from the patient's torso within this horizontal plane. This orthosis also enables cyclical up and down motion of the splint, the downward motion being healthy adductor-assisted against the bias of the piston and cylinder assembly. A lock system releasably locks the piston and cylinder at a selected retracted position of the piston rod.

The invention discloses nursing equipment for hemiplegic patients in the neurology department, and belongs to the technical field of nursing equipment for hemiplegic patients. The nursing equipment comprises a fixed bed board, and two first connecting blocks are fixedly connected to the left position of the top of the fixed bed board; when a patient needs to turn over every time, a first sliding plate and a second sliding plate are matched to slide, two telescopic air cylinders are used for adjusting the inclined state of the turning bed plate, a person is assisted in turning over, and a pulling mechanism, a limiting mechanism and a reset mechanism match to enable the person to be still located at the top of the first sliding plate in the turning-over process; after turning over is completed, in the process that the turning-over bed plate is reset to the horizontal state, the person turning over to the edge of the bed is pulled to the middle of the bed, daily activities of the person are facilitated, it is avoided that the person makes contact with the edge of the bed for a long time after turning over, the person does not need to adjust the person to the middle difficultly, and rehabilitation of the person is facilitated.

The invention discloses a machine vision behavior intention prediction method applied to an intelligent building. The method comprises the following steps of pedestrian detection, pedestrian tracking, establishment of an action description space-time operator, action detection and time boundary definition, environment state change detection, key action clustering and behavior prediction. According to the method, historical video data is learned, manual rule setting is not depended, the use limitation is small, key action vectors are obtained by clustering action sets before environment state changes, behaviors of people in the video and environment state changes are analyzed, and a relation is established; according to the method, the environment state change needing to be executed when the key action occurs is predicted, when the key action occurs in the video, the corresponding prediction signal is output for automatic execution, the accuracy is high, the real-time requirement is met, the intelligent degree of an intelligent building can be improved, manual operation of people is reduced to a certain extent, and the user experience is improved. And convenience is brought to daily activities of people.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical rehabilitation instruments, in particular to a rigid-flexible hand exoskeleton based on line driving. The rigid-flexible hand exoskeleton comprises a hand back plate, a palm plate and four finger stalls connected with the hand back plate and the palm plate, and the four finger stalls are correspondingly used for driving an index finger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a little finger to move. The finger stalls are connected with the hand back plate and the palm plate through one hand back driving line and one palm driving line. Flexible linear transmission design is adopted, the hand back plate, the palm plate and the fingerstalls are made of metal materials, flexibility and rigidity are combined through the hand back plate, the palm plate and the finger stalls made of metal materials, rigidity needed by training is provided, and meanwhile, shaping is facilitated to adapt to different patients; meanwhile, flexible flexion and extension force is provided by one driving line, so that all the finger stalls do not influence one another in the flexion and extension process, and the defects that an existing rehabilitation assisting exoskeleton glove is heavy, inconvenient to carry and poor in comfort degree are overcome; and detachable connection between the rehabilitation assisting exoskeleton glove and an external driving mechanism is designed, and free assembling and pairing are achieved.