23 results about "Concussion" patented technology

Provides is a novel protective helmet design that allows helmet designers and manufacturers to create more advanced designs with cavities, converging walls, and movable parts inside a helmet to reduce both linear and rotational forces applied to the head during an impact and as a result, reduce the risk of head injury and concussion. Also provided is a cost-effective design and manufacturing method that creates helmets that are light-weighted and perform better compared to the conventional helmet designs in terms of reducing linear and rotational forces applied to the head during an impact. The method also allows manufacturing helmets while consuming less raw materials for the shock-absorbing liner which is cost-effective and better for the environment.

A method and device for reducing the damaging effects of a blast or concussive event includes applying pressure to at least one jugular vein to reduce the egress of blood from the cranial cavity during the incidence of the concussive event. Reducing blood out flow from the cranial cavity increases intracranial pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid to reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury and injuries to the spinal column. Reducing blood out flow further increases the intracranial pressure, and thereby increases the pressure of the cochlear fluid, the vitreous humor and the cerebrospinal fluid to thereby reduce the risk of injury to the inner ear, internal structure of the eye and of the spinal column. In addition, increasing intracranial pressure reduces the likelihood of brain injury and any associated loss of olfactory function.

A protective headgear can include a core and two or more impact absorbing layers coupled to the core. At least one impact absorbing layer can include a number of impact absorbing components that are configured to absorb and reduce the force of impact incident on the protective headgear. The impact absorbing materials can employ cylindrical segments of viscoelastic foam with a sealed central void to absorb high energy impacts. The protective helmet can reduce the occurrence of concussions and subconcussive impacts to the brain.

The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for high frequency chest wall concussion (HFCWO) therapy that can promote mucous drainage by preferential impacts on a user, including by continuously applying pressure to the chest engaging device to provide HFCWO, to enhance sputum excretion. A chest wall concussion therapy system of the present disclosure may include a chest engagement device for transmitting an impact force to a patient's chest and a force generator arranged to generate a continuous impact force as a patient treatment regimen. The thoracic wall concussion therapy system additionally comprises a therapy control system comprising at least one sensor arranged to detect an indication of a breathing pattern of the patient.

Systems and methods are provided for patient evaluation. The systems may include a mobile device and a central server. The mobile device can conduct an automated assessment that detects at least one of traumatic brain injury or concussion in a patient. The automated assessment can include in part displaying a clinical condition questionnaire and receiving responses to the clinical condition questionnaire from the patient. The mobile device can provide a record of the automated assessment of the patient to the central server. The central server can receive the record of the automated assessment of the patient, receive a request to determine a clinical state of a patient, diagnose the clinical state of the patient based on the received record of the automated assessment and stored records of prior automated assessments, and provide an indication of the clinical state of the patient.

The present invention is directed to a single-directional insufflator or breath-powered nasal device that provides unique dual airflow for propelling a drug substance into a nasal cavity, preferably deep into the superior nasal cavity and into the olfactory region and the trigeminal nerve mucosa, for rapid diffusion into the brain for the treatment of nasal and / or central nervous system (“CNS”) injury, disease or disorder, especially brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury (“TBI”), including concussion, and methods regarding nasal treatment therewith. Breath-powered nasal devices for delivering a somewhat tight or confined, concentrated plume of drug substance deep into the nasal cavity to targeted sites, bypassing the blood brain barrier, namely the olfactory nerve to provide concentrated drug substance for direct absorption into the brain are disclosed.

The utility model discloses an anti-fatigue frame structure belongs to frame structure technical field, and the both ends four corners of frame main part have inclined support frame, and the inside distribution of frame main part has the middle support frame, and the buffer anti -fatigue chamber is opened in the middle support frame, and the filling buffer piece is fixedly installed in the buffer anti -fatigue chamber, and the extrusion damping chamber is distributed on the filling buffer piece, and the upper joint plate is covered on the filling buffer piece, and the limiting fixed hole is distributed on the upper joint plate, and the extrusion is generated through the filling buffer piece and absorbs the concussion in the process of vibrating or shaking, and the fatigue of frame main part is effectively reduced, and the simple structure can absorb the concussion function, and the middle support frame and filling buffer piece are the cross installation structure, and the problem of increasing the compression resistance is satisfied, and the concussion of frame main part generates and disperses to the middle support frame, can realize increasing the strength and reducing the structure, reduce the cost, and frame main part and inclined support frame and middle support frame are the assembly structure, and are convenient to replace.

In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for predicting a plurality of treatment options for treatment of a traumatic brain injury for a subject, the computer-implemented method comprising: (a) receiving a plurality of attributes of the subject, wherein the plurality of attributes is related to the traumatic brain injury; and (b) applying a machine learning model to the plurality of attributes to predict (i) a clinical outcome comprising a traumatic brain injury, and (ii) the plurality of treatment options for treatment of the traumatic brain injury.

The present invention relates to ent-19-Norprogesterone, compositions and methods of use thereof to treat, minimize and / or prevent traumatic brain injury (TBI), including severe TBI, moderate TBI and mild TBI, including concussions.

The present application provides a kind of concussion storage box, when the user moves by using the back strap, the box is up and down by its own gravity and inertia, drives the connection structure and transmission structure to act on the placement structure of blood bag, drives the structure reciprocating to drive transmission structure reciprocating, transmission structure acts on the placement structure and makes the placement structure concussion to make the blood bag concussion effect better, so, the design of the present application can realize not using motor by the concussion storage box itself gravity cooperation linkage mechanism to shake the blood bag, at the same time, the back strap reduces the damage of user's shoulder by connection structure.

The present invention relates to the field of finger joint orthopedic technology, specifically to a patient's finger joint scoliosis orthopedic and exercise equipment, including a training platform, an orthopedic part arranged above the training platform for placing the palm, and a plurality of exercise parts arranged at the front end of the training platform for corresponding finger circle exercise. The orthopedic part can be worn on the patient's hand for correction and protection, and an exercise part is arranged. The orthopedic part is placed on the exercise part, and the finger is controlled to circle around the ring groove and squeezed laterally by the expansion of the elastic ring, so that the finger joint obtains the orthopedic external force, that is, it is exercised. The overall wearing is convenient and practical; by rotating the adjustment column, a pair of arc grooves are used to drive a pair of transmission columns to move toward the center of the adjustment column, and a pair of guide columns are driven to move closer through two connecting rods, so as to form a state where the elastic ring expands laterally, so as to adjust the force of squeezing the finger, that is, gradually adjust the exercise force according to the degree of recovery of the patient's finger joint.

The present invention discloses an adjustable spinal cord impact vibration injury device and an injury method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of experimental research on spinal cord injury, and comprises a base; two lifting slide bars are fixedly installed on the rear end of the base, and a lifting slider that can slide vertically is installed on the lifting slide bar; an angle adjustment mechanism is installed on the lifting slider, and the movable end of the angle adjustment mechanism is detachably connected to a brace for fixing the experimental animal, and the angle adjustment mechanism is used to adjust the angle of the brace so that different parts of the experimental animal face the base; an impact trigger mechanism is also provided on the base. Through the above method, the experimental animal spinal cord impact concussion injury model prepared by adopting this technical solution can well simulate the injury process and post-injury pathophysiological changes of clinical spinal cord injury patients, and by changing the free fall height of the experimental animal, the upright impact rods of different materials and the impact point of the experimental animal, spinal cord impact concussion injury models with different injury modes and different injury degrees can be prepared.

A method and device for reducing the damaging effects of a blast or concussive event includes applying pressure to at least one jugular vein to reduce the egress of blood from the cranial cavity during the incidence of the concussive event. Reducing blood out flow from the cranial cavity increases intracranial pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid to reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury and injuries to the spinal column. Reducing blood out flow further increases the intracranial pressure, and thereby increases the pressure of the cochlear fluid, the vitreous humor and the cerebrospinal fluid to thereby reduce the risk of injury to the inner ear, internal structure of the eye and of the spinal column. In addition, increasing intracranial pressure reduces the likelihood of brain injury and any associated loss of olfactory function.

The present invention relates to a one-way blower or breath-driven nasal device providing a unique dual flow for propelling a pharmaceutical substance into the nasal cavity, preferably into the upper nasal cavity and into the olfactory region and the trigeminal mucosa, for rapid diffusion into the brain for the treatment of nasal and / or central nervous system ("CNS") injuries, diseases or disorders, and for the treatment of nasal and / or central nervous system ("CNS") injuries, diseases or disorders. The present invention relates to brain injury, in particular brain injury including cerebral concussion (e.g., traumatic brain injury ("TBI")), and methods related to nasal treatments therewith. Respiratory driven nasal devices are disclosed for delivering a tight or restricted concentrated plume of drug substance to a targeted site deep in the nasal cavity, bypassing the blood brain barrier (i.e., olfactory nerve) to provide concentrated drug substance for direct absorption by the brain. The restricted plume of the drug substance ejected from the nasal device by breathing of the patient is narrow in the vertical direction, similar to the diameter of the inner chamber in which the drug substance is stored. By creating such a narrow or restricted plume, higher concentrations of drug substances can be deposited at deeper nasal targeting sites. The breath-driven nasal device of the present invention achieves this unique advantage by using a novel double elongate double-walled tube chamber consisting of an outer hollow chamber and an inner chamber wherein the inner chamber is stabilized in the outer chamber by preferably two, three or more ribs. More specifically, the breath-driven nasal device simultaneously blows air through both chambers at the same force rate using the patient's own breath. When the blown air exits from the two chambers, propulsion air from the outer tube chamber encloses the drug substance propelled from the inner tube chamber in the blown air, forcing the drug substance to exit vertically in a tight or restricted concentrated plume shape, whereby the drug substance can be released from the outer tube chamber as compared to the drug substance exiting a conical fan-out plume shape of a single hollow chamber. And the drug substances with higher concentration reach the targeted nasal part (as shown in Figure 44-45). This unique feature allows the pharmaceutical substances to more effectively treat brain diseases or injuries without or to minimize systemic or blood brain barrier ("BBB") issues. According to the invention, air is blown through the two inner drug chambers by utilizing natural respiration of a patient, so that drug substances are pushed into the deep part of the nasal cavity from the inner drug substance chambers to reach a targeted part and bypass the BBB, and possibility is provided for better treatment of central nervous system diseases, such as traumatic brain injury, including cerebral concussion, migraine, epilepsy, insomnia and postoperative pain, and the treatment effect is good. The latter is typically relieved by opioids.

The invention is a novel shoulder pad / vest article providing a unique method to link with commercially available helmets to reduce concussion potential. A shoulder pad / vest article which creates a gap the user can close to take a protective posture and brace the helmet within the shoulder pad / vest article. Through lowering their chin and hunching their shoulders the user may close the gap and seat the helmet within the socket / pocket and create a friction / pressure / abutted connection between the helmet and the shoulder pad / vest article limiting: head acceleration, whiplash, and cervical compression while promoting energy transfer. A shoulder pad / vest article with unique socket / pocket / collar connection types for body-contact sports also having utility for military ground-based personnel where blunt force trauma injury to the head and neck are apt to occur. The invention has multiple embodiments.

The present invention is a wearable concussion detection and monitoring system that captures and analyzes head impact data in real time. It integrates an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a microcontroller with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for wireless communication. When an impact exceeds a threshold, the system records linear and rotational acceleration, applies sensor fusion algorithms (e.g., Madgwick filter) to remove gravitational noise, and timestamps the event. Data is stored onboard and transmitted to a mobile application and cloud platform for further analysis. Machine learning models assess concussion risk, providing real-time alerts and long-term impact tracking for athletes, trainers, and medical professionals. The system enhances concussion assessment and injury prevention across sports, military, and other high-impact activities, offering an objective, data-driven approach to head injury monitoring.

The present invention is directed to a single-directional insufflator or breath-powered nasal device that provides unique dual airflow for propelling a drug substance into a nasal cavity, preferably deep into the superior nasal cavity and into the olfactory region and the trigeminal nerve mucosa, for rapid diffusion into the brain for the treatment of nasal and / or central nervous system (“CNS”) injury, disease or disorder, especially brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury (“TBI”), including concussion, and methods regarding nasal treatment therewith.Breath-powered nasal devices for delivering a somewhat tight or confined, concentrated plume of drug substance deep into the nasal cavity to targeted sites, bypassing the blood brain barrier, namely the olfactory nerve to provide concentrated drug substance for direct absorption into the brain are disclosed. The confined plume of drug substance propelled from the nasal device by a patient's breath is narrow in the vertical resembling the diameter of the inner chamber in which the drug substance is stored. By forming this narrow or confined plume, a greater concentration of the drug substance can be deposited at the deeper nasally targeted sites. The breath-powered nasal devices of the present invention accomplish this unique advantage by the use of a novel dual elongated double-walled tube chamber comprised of an outer hollow chamber and the inner chamber in which the inner chamber is stabilized in the outer chamber by preferably two, three or more ribs. More specifically, the breath-powered nasal device uses the patient's own breath to blow air simultaneously at the same force rate through both chambers. As the blown air exits both chambers, the propelled air from the outer tube chamber surrounds the drug substance propelled from the inner tube chamber within the blown air forcing the drug substance to exit in a tight or confined, concentrated plume shape in the vertical, so that a higher concentration of drug substance reaches the targeted nasal sites, as compared to a conical fanned-out plume shape of drug substance exiting a single hollow chamber, as illustrated in FIGS. 44-45. This unique feature allows diseases or injuries of the brain to be treated more effectively with a drug substance without or with minimized systemic or Blood Brain Barrier (“BBB”) issue.

The utility model relates to test tube oscillation equipment which comprises a working table, and an oscillation assembly used for oscillating test tubes and a conveying assembly used for conveying the test tubes are arranged at the top of the working table. According to the test tube oscillation equipment, by arranging the oscillation assembly, the effect of automatically oscillating test tubes can be achieved in the using process, on one hand, the accuracy of oscillation of the test tubes can be guaranteed, on the other hand, the workload of workers can be effectively reduced, and the oscillation effect is improved; a plurality of fixed seats are arranged on the fixed seat at equal intervals, so that the vibrating effect of each test tube can be kept consistent in the vibrating process of the test tubes; at least one fixing hole is formed in the fixing seat, so that a good fixing effect on the test tube can be effectively realized in the use process, and the stability of the test tube in the oscillation process is ensured.

A system of head protection with an integrated air filtration mechanism for protecting the user from impact / concussion and ambient air pollution. Example embodiments comprise a rigid helmet shell covering the head of the user and a fabric air barrier around the user's neck, a battery powered filtered centrifugal fan contained inside an external detachable cowl apparatus adjoins to a helmet external top spoiler with a mounting system that is easily removable to meet impact attenuation standards The cowl apparatus directs clean filtered air into the duct system-a top spoiler funnel connected to an internal clean air duct and exits the visor air curtain providing continual clean laminar airflow between the user's face and the face shield. One or more sensors, calibrated to detect harmful particulates and a processor to automatically activate the system as a protective measure when harmful particulates are encountered and a sensor to detect when filter element needs replacement.

The invention relates to ex-situ biosensors that impedimetrically detect one or more target biomarkers of interest in a bodily fluid sample derived from a patient. The biosensors include a multi-array of conducting material, such as platinum wires, having immobilized thereon antibody and / or aptamer that is selected to specifically and selectively bind to the one or more target biomarkers of interest. The biosensors are contacted with a portion of the bodily fluid sample, and the antibody and / or aptamer binds to the target biomarker(s) of interest in the bodily fluid sample. As a result, an electrochemical impedance signal is generated and therefore, a change in the electrochemical impedance is indicative of the presence of the target biomarker(s) of interest in the bodily fluid sample. The biosensors are point-of-care, on-demand devices that can be used in a medical environment, as well as in domestic and health emergency settings.

Various embodiments relating to methods for evaluating injury mitigation performance of helmets that are used for sports (e.g., equestrian sports) are described. In one embodiment, a method for evaluating injury mitigation performance of an equestrian helmet includes applying a first impact configuration to a first and a second helmet of the same model and applying a second impact configuration to a third and a fourth helmet that are both of the same model as the first and the second helmet. The method further includes generating acceleration data based on impacts that occur as part of the first impact configuration and the second impact configuration. The method further includes determining concussion risk values based on the generated acceleration data. The method also includes determining a concussion risk metric based on the concussion risk values and exposure values.