166 results about "Hand exercises" patented technology

An apparatus and method for identifying the flexor retinaculum of the carpal tunnel, injecting an effective amount of an agent into at least a portion of flexor retinaculum or tissue adjacent thereto, wherein the agent is configured to weaken the flexor retinaculum. The system may further include means for increasing the tensile stress in the flexor retinaculum post-injection using hand exercises, thereby weakening its structural integrity and decreasing the pressure within the carpal tunnel that impairs median nerve function.

A device for exercising hand and forearm muscles includes: (a) a substantially rectangular-shaped support frame; (b) a pivotable lever bar extending down at an angle from a first, inner corner of the frame, substantially bisecting the substantially rectangular-shaped frame when the device is not in use; (c) a pivot mechanism in the first corner of the frame for pivoting the lever bar, an upper end of the pivotable lever bar being affixed to the pivot mechanism; and (d) a weight support mechanism on the opposite, lower end portion of the lever bar for supporting at least one removable weight. Also included herein is a smaller, hand-held hand exercise device.

The invention relates to an exercise assisting device, in particular to an exercise assisting device based on the elongate pneumatic muscles, and aims at solving the problems that an existing exercise assisting device is complex in structure, large in weight, high in cost and poor in flexibility. The exercise assisting device comprises a glove, an air source, a control circuit and five electropneumatic valves; fiver finger cots of the glove are provided with a thumb pneumatic muscle assembly, an index finger pneumatic muscle assembly, a middle finger pneumatic muscle assembly, a ring finger pneumatic muscle assembly and a little finger pneumatic muscle assembly respectively, the thumb pneumatic muscle assembly, the index finger pneumatic muscle assembly, the middle finger pneumatic muscle assembly, the ring finger pneumatic muscle assembly and the little finger pneumatic muscle assembly are each connected with the air source through the corresponding electropneumatic valve, the signal receiving end of each electropneumatic valve is connected with the signal transmitting end of the control circuit, and the air source, the control circuit and the electropneumatic valves form a control and power system. The exercise assisting device is used for assisting hand exercises.

The present invention relates to a gesture identification method and a gesture identification device. The gesture identification method comprises step A, obtaining motion parameters for reference and hand exercise parameters; step B, comparing the hand exercise parameters with the reference motion parameters and obtaining differential angle between the hand exercise parameters and the reference motion parameters; step C, obtaining position changing information of hands through the differential angle between the hand exercise parameters and the reference motion parameters; and step D, identifying the position changing information of the hands and output as gesture information. In the gesture identification device, gesture identification can be realized by a sensor device without optical equipment, the prior human-computer interaction device can be substituted, human-computer interaction can be realized through gestures, the complexity of a human-computer interaction system can be simplified to some extent, and the identification speed is fast, and flexibility can be realized.

An apparatus for the local and / or remote rehabilitation and functional evaluation of the right and / or left hand of a user includes: a number of gym tools for the execution of hand exercises, each gym tool including a mechanical part, a sensor for the transformation of measured physical parameters into electrical signals; a user interface, configured to guide the user in the use of the gym tools, and providing feedbacks to the sequence of user actions; a first processing unit, configured to manage the apparatus functions, signal processing, storing and forwarding information on the measured physical parameters to at least one external device; a short-range communication module, configured to allow a real-time close-distance control of the apparatus; a wide-range communication module, configured to allow the connection to at least one long-distance tele-monitoring system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical equipment, and particularly relates to special orthopaedic rehabilitation exercise equipment. The equipment includes a bottom plate, a power component is fixedly connected to the bottom surface of a sitting plate, the output end of the power component is connected with a transmission structure, and the transmission structure includes a firsttransmission structure and a first transmission structure; the transmission structure is connected to a leg exercise device and a transition structure, a leg massage device is arranged on the leg exercise device, and the transition structure is connected to an arm exercise structure and a hand exercise structure; and the leg exercise device includes leg supporting plates rotatably connected to thefront end of the sitting plate, each leg supporting plate is rotatably connected with a rotary plate, the leg supporting plates are connected with the first transmission structure, the first transmission structure drives the leg supporting plates to swing back and forth around the front end of the sitting plate, the rotary plates are connected with the second transmission structure, and the second transmission structure drives the rotary plates to swing left and right around the leg supporting plates. The equipment provided by the invention effectively solves the problems of a single exercisefunction and poor recovery effect of a current rehabilitation exercise device.

The invention discloses a multi-channel mini-mental state examination (MMSE) system. Through multi-channel input of a tablet personal computer, a digitizing pad and voice, a novel electronic mini-mental state examination (MMSE) system based on multi-channel information fusion is established, the MMSE examination speed can be effectively increased, cognition and hand exercise function data are quantified, articulation and pronunciation data are quantified, and efficiency, comprehensiveness and objectivity of examination are improved. According to the method, multi-channel input of an electronic examination scale and the digitizing pad and analysis of pronunciation information are fused. Examination efficiency is improved through an electronic system, a data model of cognition, exercise and pronunciation information is established through a multi-channel fusion method, and an objective and quantitative MMSE analysis system is established.

A hand exercise device 100 and method for exercising human hands 102 and digits 104 comprising a plurality of separate digit sleeves 110 wherein the diameter and length are such that the separate digit sleeves 110 slide over the finger and thumb digits 105, 106 of the human hand 102; a magnetic element 120 is attached with the separate digit sleeve 110 near a distal end 116 of the separate digit sleeve 110, wherein the magnetic element 120 will facilitate a desired exercise in multidirectional movements when the magnetic element 120 is approximated near another magnetic 129 or ferrous metal surface 150.

The invention discloses a pneumatic soft-body function rehabilitation glove which can provide help for the hand exercise rehabilitation of stroke patients, preoperative patients, postoperative patients and the like. The pneumatic soft-body function rehabilitation glove comprises a glove body, an air pressure sensor, speed and acceleration sensors, an arithmetic unit, a detachable battery, a one-way bending layer, an electromagnetic valve, a miniature air pump and elastic bodies, wherein the glove body mainly comprises a glove outer surface layer and a glove inner surface layer which are used for wrapping devices such as the elastic bodies, air tubes and air bags inside the glove body; the speed and acceleration sensors are used for measuring finger moving speed and acceleration; the air pressure sensor is used for measuring air pressure change in the air bags; the arithmetic unit is used for glove system intelligent operation and control; the detachable battery is used for providing stable energy for the system; the electromagnetic valve, the miniature air pump and the elastic bodies adopt different inflation and deflation strategies for different air channels according to the operation results of the arithmetic unit so as to achieve glove extension and flexion.

The invention discloses amedical auxiliary muscle stretching device for Parkinson's disease, and belongs to the technical field of auxiliary medical devices. Themedical auxiliary muscle stretching device for Parkinson's disease comprisesa bed board, a back support mechanism, an installing vertical plate, an upper limb muscle recovery mechanism and a lower limb muscle exercise mechanism. The lower limb muscle exercise mechanism is arranged under the bed board, the bed board is provided with two through grooves, the upper limb muscle recovery mechanism comprises a bearing plate, an angle adjustment component, a muscle stretching component and an intermittent drive component,an installation seat is arranged on the right side of the installing vertical plate, and a connection block is hinged on the installation seat, the bottom of the bed plate is provided with four supporting feet, and both sides of the bed plate are provided with guardrails.The medicalauxiliary muscle stretching device has the beneficial effects that the lower limb muscle exercise mechanism can exercise lower limbs of a patient and assist the patient in hand exercise, and through the upper limb muscle recovery mechanism,the inability of patients to exercise with one hand without exercising with the other can be avoided.

The present invention relates most specifically to a hand-exercising device that, in fact, is a glove. Unlike any “field” apparatus that has come before, it is not worn as an extension to a hand or worn on the top of a hand or strapped or worn on a glove; it is the glove. This allows the flexibility of either the entire hand or any individual digit in a natural movement through a full range of motion thereby exercising the hand and digits in the most prosperous, utilitarian method for full potential of strength improvement humanly possible. This unparalleled achievement is accomplished via strategically integrated slender, pliable, flexible, non-breakable, aluminum and / or aluminum and PVC combination “spring-stays” (as in “to stiffen”) sheathed within the heavy corrugated / striated material of the “apparatus-glove”. In addition, there is a “complete glove itself” model which is, in its entirety, made of one eighth to one sixteenth inch width / depth flexible, spring-aluminum and / or PVC and / or combination alloy-metal then covered and / or integrated within a full material covering which is skin / hand compatible. A fixed and / or resting glove / hand setting results in maximum resistance to both opening and closing movements. Areas for high potential usage pertaining specifically to all sports (football, basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field, baseball, volley ball, et. al.), as well as capacities for therapeutic inclination within the medical, industrial, and business worlds are virtually without boundaries.

The invention relates to an exercising tool, in particular to a novel multifunctional exercising tool. The novel multifunctional exercising tool comprises a base frame, a supporting rod, a vertical adjusting mechanism, a stable rod, a left-right adjusting mechanism, a hand exercising mechanism and a leg exercising mechanism. The tool can exercise the power of gripping of an exercising user, the strength of the arms, the strength of the legs and the strength of the waist, the novel multifunctional exercising tool is multifunctional, and independent selection and adjustment can be performed according to the requirement of the user. The lower end of the supporting rod is connected with the base frame, the upper end of the supporting rod is connected with the stable rod, the left-right adjusting mechanism is installed on the supporting rod through the vertical adjusting mechanism, the hand exercising mechanism is installed on the left-right adjusting mechanism, and the leg exercising mechanism is arranged on the base frame.

The invention relates to a rehabilitation device, in particular a medical body rehabilitation exercise device which comprises a shell, a leg exercise box, a leg counterweight box, a hand exercise boxand a hand counterweight box. The medical body rehabilitation exercise device can solve the important problem that body functions of patients bedridden for a long time atrophy in the field of medicaltreatment, the main problem of rehabilitation treatment of patients whose body functions gradually atrophy along with staying in bed due to the fact that the patients need to stay in bed for a long time according to illness state or the patients are inconvenient to get up, the problem that the patients need to use multiple rehabilitation training devices for body rehabilitation due to the fact that existing rehabilitation devices are unitary in function and can only realize rehabilitation training of functions of local parts and the problem that effect is unobvious for users in later rehabilitation periods due to the fact that training weight of existing rehabilitation training devices cannot be adjusted.

An exercising device for the hand is disclosed. A securement is secured to an anchoring member comprising a band with a pair of ends configured to extend around and be secured to the hand of the user and configured to support the anchoring member in a position overlying the palm of the hand of a user and is coupled to the hand of the user. A plurality of fingertip engaging members are each configured and dimensioned to be secured to a respective fingertip a plurality of fingertip anchorings. Each of the fingertip anchorings is secured to a respective fingertip engaging member. A plurality of respective palm anchorings are secured to the anchoring member. A plurality of respective elastic members each have first and second ends. The first end of each of the elastic members is secured to the fingertip anchorings. The second end of each of the elastic members is secured to the palm anchorings. Alternatively, the securement and the anchoring member comprise a closed loop elastic strap.

The invention relates to the field of sports training devices, in particular to an intelligent pile for martial art training. The intelligent pile comprises a pile moving unit, a hand exercise unit and a leg exercise unit. The pile moving unit comprises a pile body and a pile moving module used for driving the pile body to horizontally move forward and backward, the pile moving unit can drive the hand exercise unit and the leg exercise unit to horizontally move in the same direction or opposite to each other in the front-back direction, a hand exercise target is installed at the front end of the hand exercise unit so as to cooperate with a trainee to exercise straight punches, spinning punches and hooks, and a leg exercise target is installed at the front end of the leg exercise unit and used for cooperating with the trainee to exercise whip-leg. The intelligent martial art pile is long in service life and can take the place of manual target holding so that the trainee can do straight punch exercises, spinning punch exercises, hook exercises and whip-leg exercises, the true operation that people hold targets for exercises can be fully simulated, and accordingly the training effects are better than those of traditional martial art piles.

The invention discloses a user identity recognition method based on hand exercise. Identity recognition is achieved by means of hand exercise characteristics of users. The method comprises an off-line stage and an on-line stage. In the off-line stage, hand exercise tracks of all the users to be recognized are recorded through a depth camera, then the tracks are segmented, space-time parameters are extracted from the segmented tracks to be used as characteristic information, and finally the characteristic data are trained by means of a machine learning method to obtain a user identity recognition model. In the on-line stage, the hand exercise tracks of the users are collected similarly, and segmentation and characteristic extraction are carried out on the tracks. Then, on-line recognition is carried out on the tracks through the user identity recognition model obtained in the off-line stage. According to the user identity recognition method, with the help of the depth camera, identity recognition is achieved by means of hand exercise behaviors of the users, physiological characteristics and behavioral characteristics of the users are combined, and the user identity recognition method has the advantages of being capable of being carried with the users, universal, noninvasive, receptible and the like.

A hand exercise device 100 and method for exercising human hands 102 and digits 104 comprising a plurality of separate digit sleeves 110 wherein the diameter and length are such that the separate digit sleeves 110 slide over the finger and thumb digits 105, 106 of the human hand 102; a magnetic element 120 is attached with the separate digit sleeve 110 near a distal end 116 of the separate digit sleeve 110, wherein the magnetic element 120 will facilitate a desired exercise in multidirectional movements when the magnetic element 120 is approximated near another magnetic 129 or ferrous metal surface 150.

A hand exercise device 100 and method for exercising human hands 102 and digits 104 comprising a plurality of separate digit sleeves 110 wherein the diameter and length are such that the separate digit sleeves 110 slide over finger and thumb digits 105, 106 of a human hand 102; a magnetic element 120 is attached with the separate digit sleeve 110 at or near a distal end 116 of the separate digit sleeve 110, wherein the magnetic element 120 will facilitate a desired exercise in multidirectional movements when the magnetic element 120 is approximated near another magnetic 129 or ferrous metal surface 150. The hand exercise device may include a flat or wavy ferrous material 150, 151, 152 or a randomly disposed magnetic field 161 to aid in exercising the hand.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, and specifically relates to a rehabilitation exercise apparatus for respiratory diseases. The rehabilitation exercise apparatus forrespiratory diseases comprises a bottom plate; a seat plate is arranged above the bottom plate; a backrest mechanism is hinged onto the seat plate; a flipping mechanism is arranged on the bottom plate so as to allow the backrest mechanism to rotate along the seat plate; the backrest mechanism comprises a backrest hinged to the seat plate; a pair of movable chambers are symmetrically arranged on the backrest; massage means are arranged in sliding connection with the interior of the movable chambers; an adjustment structure is arranged on the backrest so as to allow the massage means to symmetrically slide along the movable chambers; an exercise means is in sliding connection with the bottom plate; the exercise means comprises a leg exercise structure which is in sliding connection with thebottom plate; and a hand exercise structure is hinged with the leg exercise structure. The rehabilitation exercise apparatus for respiratory diseases effectively solves the problem of poor exercise effects caused by ineffective adaptation to a patient's situation due to simplex functions of existing exercise apparatuses.

The invention discloses a method for computing hand rehabilitation indexes based on a sensing technology. The method comprises the steps that a space sensor is arranged in a pair of intelligent gloves and corresponds to a target joint in position, wherein the target joint comprises a thumb interphalangeal joint, a thumb metacarpophalangeal joint, four-finger proximal interphalangeal joints, a metacarpophalangeal joint and a wrist joint. A patient wears the intelligent gloves to complete training actions, the training actions include a hand exercise stretching action, a hand exercise fist making action and a patient fist making action. The space sensor acquires kinematics parameters of the target joint in each training action, and the kinematics parameters include sagittal axis motion angle variation and strength variation. The rehabilitation indexes of the patient are determined according to kinematics parameters. By the adoption of the method, the rehabilitation indexes of the patient can rapidly and accurately calculated, accordingly the rehabilitation situation of the patient is converted into digital quantity, a doctor is effectively guided to assess the rehabilitation situation of the patient, and a rehabilitation plane is further perfected to select hand actions having clinic treatment values.

Conditioning devices for gainers and eSports athletes are presented. The devices includes a wrist rest device, a massage sleeve, a hand exercise bracelet, a knuckle bracelet and a tri-finger exercise device. The wrist rest device is configured to provide appropriate warmth to the forearms while gaming, using a keyboard, or any data input device. The massage sleeve is configured to be wrapped around a person's forearm. It includes multiple elevated geometric shapes that are be built into the fabric of the material to provide appropriate pressure along the musculature of the wrist and forearm. The hand exercise bracelet, the knuckle bracelet and the tri-finger exercise device are configured for increasing the flexion, extension, abduction, adduction and intrinsic muscle strength of fingers, wrists, and forearms especially for individuals who do extensive amounts of keyboarding as well as texting, typing, gaming, and data entry.

The invention provides a hand exercise rehabilitation training and evaluation system based on a flexible robot. The system comprises a flexible robot part, a control part and an information display part, wherein the flexible robot part comprises a flexible glove, a bending sensor, a posture sensor and the like, is used for driving the human hand to carry out rehabilitation training, and various exercise data in the training process is recorded in real time, so that data support is provided for the rehabilitation evaluating of patients; the control part mainly comprises a miniature multipath air valve, a miniature air pump and an electric regulating valve, through the synergism and coordination among the miniature multipath air valve, the miniature air pump and the electric regulating valve, the accurate control over the different bending angles and motion speeds of the flexible fingers is realized; and the information display part comprises a touch screen and function buttons, the system realizes interaction with a patient through the display part, so that the enthusiasm for rehabilitation training of the patient is fully aroused, and then the rehabilitation training effect is improved. For the system, the accurate control over the hand exercise rehabilitation is realized based on the flexible robot, the operation is simple and reliable, the price is low, the size is small, themaintenance is easy, and the system is particularly suitable for use by the patient at home.

An improvement in foot and hand exercising devices featuring a depressible elongated device placeable in the palm of a hand or under the plantar region of a foot which can increase venous return in an aid to avoiding deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and resulting pulmonary embolism (PE), stroke, and edema. The depressible device reduces chance of foot or hand injury and improves the comfort of the user. The device can also be used for stretching the plantar tendons and thereby reducing foot pain.

The invention discloses a sporting device. The arm exerciser comprises a spring damping element 1, an armrest 2, a connecting seat, a spring damping element 2, a piston rod, a cylinder body and a support plate. The hand exerciser comprises a rope, a pull block, a spring damping element three, a button, a grip plate, a hinge, a spring damping element four, a spring damping element five, and a spring damping element six. The foot exerciser includes L-shaped struts, two connecting rods, two pedals, runner parts, five drive shafts, six drive shafts, hammer blocks, three rotating shafts, two U-shaped bars, and the runner parts Including runners and three connecting rods; one end of the L-shaped strut is fixedly connected to the frame through glue joints, and the other end of the L-shaped strut is fixedly connected to the second pedal through glue joints. The sports equipment needle of the present invention realizes the needs of rehabilitation exercises for the hands, arms, feet, back and other parts of the human body, meets the requirements of patients for all-round rehabilitation exercises, improves the function of rehabilitation exercises, and improves the rehabilitation effect of patients .

The invention discloses a fatigue driving state monitoring method. The fatigue driving state monitoring method comprises the steps of transmitting collected electrocardio data and triaxial acceleration data of hands to a control unit, performing statistics on the transmitted data by the control unit to obtain variability indexes and hand exercise coefficient indexes, constructing a fatigue forecasting model by a K-means method, inputting the heart rate and heart rate variability indexes and hand exercise coefficient into the fatigue forecasting model, and according to the output value of the fatigue forecasting model, performing grading on the fatigue forecasting result. The method is simple to operate and high in accuracy, the fatigue degree of a driver can be in real-time on-line recognition and detection, the driver can be reminded, and relevant improvement basis can be provided for the driver or handlers.

A therapeutic hand exercise device includes one or more pliant sleeves (5) for attachment to one or more digits of a human hand, a chamber (4) provided in at least a dorsal region of the or each pliant sleeve (5), a liquid inlet to the chamber and a pump (3) for supplying pressurized liquid to the or each chamber. Each pliant sleeve (5) is movable between a relaxed state and a stiffened state in which the pliant sleeve forms a substantially rigid elongate member for holding a finger disposed within the sleeve in an extended position. A resilient member (6) is fitted to the palmar side of each pliant sleeve which returns the finger to a state of contracture.

The invention relates to an exercise tool, in particular to an exercise training tool. The tool comprises a base plate, a support rod, a cross rod, a foot rest, a foot rest adjusting mechanism, an exercise mechanism, a glove tube adjusting mechanism, a glove tube, a through hole, an extrusion disc and a hand exercise mechanism; the device has multiple functions and can be used for exercise of upper limbs and lower limbs, the exercise modes are diverse, and selective regulation can be conducted as needed. The support rod is connected with the base plate, the cross rod is connected with the support rod, the glove tube sleeves the cross rod through a through hole, the extrusion disc is installed on the glove tube, the hand exercise mechanism is installed on the glove tube, the exercise mechanism is connected with the cross rod, the glove tube adjusting mechanism is arranged on the exercise mechanism and connected with the glove tube, and the foot rest adjusting mechanism is connected withthe exercise mechanism and connected with the foot rest.