129 results about "Injury prevention" patented technology

The present invention relates to a method and system using an online website that provides personalized and comprehensive fitness, nutrition, motivation, and training information to registered users, typically without directing them to other sites or requiring the purchase of products. The invention provides an interactive, easy to use, personalized homepage for each user. The user has access to selectable Modules focused on different areas of fitness which open within the personalized homepage to help them improve general fitness ability, strength, speed, agility and flexibility or aid in prevention of and recovery from injuries while providing nutritional guidance, injury prevention and treatment tips, and/or coaching instructions.

One embodiment includes a system and method to integrate a participant's medical, physical, behavioral and psychological risk factors, historical morbidity and injury profile and the resultant health-care costs allowing for specifically targeted strategies to be developed for highly effective individual and corporate/organizational health promotion.

In an effort to reduce employer health insurance related costs, a state-governed fully-insured health insurance policy is provided for a group of employees. At least one benefit under the health insurance policy is conditional on the employee voluntarily participating in a wellness program. The wellness program could include wellness categories such as a tobacco free category, normal blood pressure category, regular exercise category and even a non-overweight category. In addition, the wellness program could condition coverage, or subsidize deductibles for, certain illnesses on employee submission to screening tests on a prescribed basis for the identified illness, such as cancer screening for early detection of cancer. The voluntary wellness program can also include a variety of other aspects including wellness education, disease inoculation, and injury prevention. The invention provides an incentive for employees to make healthier lifestyle choices.

A mouth guard, or wearable device, senses impact forces, calculates risk factors for injury, and displays status of risk and potential injury. A mouth guard may be used to identify, treat and prevent exacerbating brain injury. A wearable device can be programmed with biometric data to better calculate and anticipate impact thresholds and more precisely predict and prevent injury.

The present invention provides a differential pressure body suit with external support against body suit migration. In its preferred embodiment, such body suit may comprise a close-fitting, multi-layered suit sealed against a mammal's skin to contain the differential pressure, or a looser-fitting suit that bends at the mammal's joints with minimal force. External support means include either fixed or movable mechanical supports attached to the body suit, extraordinary air pressure levels for making the body suit rigid, or exoskeletons attached to the body suit, or a counter-force suspension cable adjustment system. A cyclic control system can turn the differential pressure condition within the body suit on and off on a selective basis to accommodate the movement of the legs of the mammal. This differential pressure body suit provides a portable and convenient system for, e.g., rehabilitating a skeletal joint injury or training the mammal for injury prevention or athletic performance or fat burning. The pressurization reduces the weight of the body to greater or lesser extents, and offloads the weight to the ground through the external support means.

The present invention provides a differential pressure body suit with external support against body suit migration. In its preferred embodiment, such body suit may comprise a close-fitting, multi-layered suit sealed against a mammal's skin to contain the differential pressure, or a looser-fitting suit that bends at the mammal's joints with minimal force. External support means include either fixed or movable mechanical supports attached to the body suit, extraordinary air pressure levels for making the body suit rigid, or exoskeletons attached to the body suit, or a counter-force suspension cable adjustment system. A cyclic control system can turn the differential pressure condition within the body suit on and off on a selective basis to accommodate the movement of the legs of the mammal. This differential pressure body suit provides a portable and convenient system for, e.g., rehabilitating a skeletal joint injury or training the mammal for injury prevention or athletic performance or fat burning. The pressurization reduces the weight of the body to greater or lesser extents, and offloads the weight to the ground through the external support means.

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for automated biomechanical analysis for bodily joints generally and in one use to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention and recovery. The disclosure includes processing an automated biometric analysis algorithm on a computer processor and recording measurements relating to a plurality of physical therapy tests. The disclosure tracks the movement of joints on the subject's body from the subject's trunk downward to the subject's toes and calculates the results of the physical therapy tests for analyzing angles, movement quality, and related interrelationships amongst said joints. The method and system further derive and provide reports of comparisons of results with normative values and associate indicators for the comparisons to the potential of the subject to experience biomechanical conditions of injury or development.

Described is a system and method for providing an autonomous driving control mechanism in response to an emergency handling event using an emergency (or backup) control system. For example, in certainconditions such as a hardware or software failure, proper functioning of an autonomous driving control system may become compromised. Accordingly, the system may switch to an emergency decision system to continue to provide autonomous driving control functionality. In addition, the emergency decision system may switch to rules and/or a decision algorithm that prioritizes collision avoidance or safety concerns such as injury or fatality prevention in response to the emergency handling event.

A chainsaw that increases the level of operator safety by reducing or eliminating cut through and kickback injuries without impeding cutting operations, and increases operator comfort through ergonomics, therefore extending stamina. This is accomplished by a dual stage multi-hinged bar device that physically inhibits kickback and cut through injuries. The device, which returns to it's original position after cutting, will open up a total of 88 degrees to allow for cutting of items that are larger than the length of the guide bar. Relocation of the handles leads users toward physically holding the saw in such a manner that creates an ergonomically advantageous body position, reducing fatigue and strains. The body of the saw and the bar device will rotate 45 and 90 degrees both right and left while the handles and operators grip remain in the same position. The chainsaw also incorporates an easy to use chain adjustment.

A vehicle safety device for decreasing injury to occupants resulting from a collision, comprising enhanced impact absorbing apparatuses: (1) headrests and seatbacks with conical or cylindrical holes and layers of material to absorb impact forces; (2) 4 embodiments of apparatuses attaching the headrests to the seatback comprising shock absorption means to reduce whiplash injuries; (3) spring loaded means of attaching the seat bottom to the vehicle floor to provide the seats recoil mechanisms for collisions from all directions; (4) seatbelts with all points of contact to the seat to provide the seatbelts recoil mechanisms, and comprising gel and/or foam layers and a flexible weave design; (5) seat tilt mechanisms that enable the seat to recoil during a collision; and (6) airbags with multiple layers of material of increasing impact absorption from the occupants to the dashboard and steering wheel.

A method includes obtaining foot force data that is created by sampling, in accordance with a sampling signal, data from pressure sensing elements of a shoe sensor system. The method further includes obtaining three-dimensional foot data that is created by sampling, in accordance with the sampling signal, data from an accelerometer of the shoe sensor system. The method further includes correlating the foot force data and the three-dimensional foot data in accordance with the sampling signal to produce correlated foot data. The method further includes processing the correlated foot data to determine one or more of: distance traveled during a time period, stride length data, time duration, fatigue indication, injury prevention indicators, elevation tracking for the time period, running optimization, and rotational sport optimization.

The invention discloses an automatic active early warning system for highway rescue. The automatic active early warning system comprises an early warning vehicle and a remote control device, wherein the remote control device is connected with the early warning vehicle through wireless signals, the early warning vehicle comprises an underpan, the lower part of the underpan is provided with a plurality of rolling wheels, the rolling wheels are connected with a motor arranged on the underpan, and a control unit is arranged on the underpan and is respectively connected with a power supply, a warning lamp, a warning plate, a distance measurement sensor, an alarm, an automatic parking device, an automatic tracking sensor and a first singlechip wireless transceiver which are arranged on the underpan. The early warning system can warn drivers and rescue people in the first time, the warning effect is obvious, the safety performance is good, the automation degree is high, the operation is simple, and the occurrence of secondary accidents injuring the rescue personnel can be effectively prevented.

The invention relates to vehicle safety technology, in particular to a passenger safety-orientated emergency injury prevention device for a vehicle-mounted seat. The emergency injury prevention device comprises a seat consisting of a seat cushion and a backrest, and a sliding device provided with a bottom plate opposite to the seat; the bottom of the seat cushion is provide with a top plate; the rear end of the top plate is provided with a driving plate extending downwards to form a right angle; and the bottom plate is fixed on a vehicle body, and the front end of the bottom plate is provided with a vertical plate extending upwards to form a right angle. The sliding device has the structure that the bottom plate is provided with a lead rail and a lead rail base; the bottom surface of the top plate is provided with a sliding block matched with the lead rail in a sliding way correspondently; a gas rod cylinder is fixed on the top plate; the tail end base of the cylinder is fixed on the driving plate in an abutting way; the top end of an ejection rod sleeve of a gas rod is tightly fixed to the vertical plate; and the short arm end of a lever device driven by an impact force pushes against an ejection rod of the gas rod. When a vehicle collides and stops suddenly in the traveling process, inertia generated by a steel ball rushes forwards along a round tube to eject the ejection rod into the ejection rod sleeve and enable the ejection rod to extend out of the ejection rod sleeve rapidly through the short arm end of a lever, and the cylinder goes back at a high speed and the driving plate drives the seat to slide backwards rapidly relative to the bottom plate, thereby effectively avoiding or greatly alleviating injury to the entire body of a passenger.

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods of preventing injury to a person related to job demand. Embodiments generally include comparative monitoring of the current status of the person as related to one or more job demands. The current status is compared to both previous status and desired status to help prevent injury and speed recovery post-injury.

An ejection seat arm flail injury prevention apparatus comprises a pair of rigid support arms on each side of the ejection seat that deploy outwardly to support a semi-rigid backstop substantially behind the ejection seat occupant. When the ejection seat is propelled out of the aircraft and is subjected to the windblast, the occupant's arms are allowed to flail in a rearward direction in the windblast until the occupant's arms impact the semi-rigid backstop. The backstop is semi-rigid in that it deforms sufficiently to enable the rearward motion of the occupant's arms to be arrested without impact injury, yet is sufficiently rigid to prevent the occupant's arms from rebounding off the backstop or striking the rigid support arms.

A chainsaw that increases the level of operator safety by reducing or eliminating cut through and kickback injuries without impeding cutting operations, and increases operator comfort through ergonomics, therefore extending stamina. This is accomplished by a dual stage multi-hinged bar device that physically inhibits kickback and cut through injuries. The device, which returns to it's original position after cutting, will open up a total of 88 degrees to allow for cutting of items that are larger than the length of the guide bar. Relocation of the handles leads users toward physically holding the saw in such a manner that creates an ergonomically advantageous body position, reducing fatigue and strains. The body of the saw and the bar device will rotate 45 and 90 degrees both right and left while the operators grip on the saw remain in the same position. The chainsaw also incorporates an easy to use chain adjustment.

The invention discloses a control method for an accidental injury prevention safety air bag. On the basis of an existing intelligent safety air bag, analogue simulation is conducted through a computer for all situations where safety air bags may cause accidental injuries to drivers and passengers, all possible accidental injury data are stored in a safety air bag ECU, when vehicles run on roads, information of the drivers and the passengers and the running speeds of the vehicles are collected through sensors and cameras, whether the drivers and the passengers can be hurt or not when the air bags are detonated at the moment is judged through built-in chips and programs, if the drivers and the passengers can possibly be injured, the drivers and the passengers are reminded to take corresponding measures such as the measure of decreasing the running speed or the measure of moving the sitting positions backwards to the safe area, and if the drivers and the passengers pay no attention to the reminding, the air bags are temporarily closed, and meanwhile the states of the drivers and the passengers are recorded. By means of the preset judgment technology, if the air bags may cause accidental injuries to the drivers and the passengers, the drivers and the passengers are reminded to move to the safe area; if the drivers and the passengers continue to be in the unsafe state, air bag denotation is stopped.

An appliance for application to the human body for injury prevention, rehabilitation, support, to enhance strength, and to improve posture. The claimed invention may provide an applicator of a relatively elastic material having a first portion for attachment to a first insertion point of a muscle and a second portion for attachment to a second insertion point of the muscle to provide support to the injured muscle. Alternatively, the claimed invention may provide a central portion for attachment to an injured area and any number of extension portions for attachment to the surrounding tissue.

A driver's injury prevention type pedal may include a pedal arm which is rotatably coupled, at an upper portion to a pedal arm hinge which acts as a center of rotation of a pedal stroke, and a universal reverse rotation member which reversibly rotates the pedal arm about the pedal arm hinge and away from a driver which may include a mounting bracket to which the upper portion of the pedal arm is fitted and coupled, and a reverse rotation lever which presses the upper portion of the pedal arm by counterclockwise direction rotation formed by pushing of the pedal arm. In particular, the driver's injury prevention type pedal may be converted into a brake pedal, a clutch pedal, or an acceleration pedal, thereby allowing pedal manufacturing costs to be significantly reduced.

The security tag comprises a housing, EAS or RFID sensor, locking mechanism, a spring-biased clip, a pin connecting to the housing, and a spring-biased pin safety guard for injury prevention. The operating methods involve: inserting an article (e.g., clothing) between the safety guard and the clip, depressing the clip to attach the security tag to the article (e.g., clothing); placing the security tag on a detacher, the clip rises up automatically and the article (e.g., clothing) separates from the security tag automatically.

The invention relates to a kneecap, in particular to an air bag type kneecap which is used for sports, guarantees that a joint is bent and stretches freely and has the injury-prevention function.The kneecap is composed of a kneecap body and a protective air bag.The kneecap body is made from sweat-absorbing, breathable and elastic fabric, is attached to the hook face of the joint and is cylindrical; the protective air bag is not elastic and will not deform after being molded, thickness is 6-10 mm, the protective air bag is fixed to the front side of the kneecap body for sports and corresponds to the patella portion, the bottom of the protective air bag is planar, a plurality of transverse long strips are arranged on the upper portion of the protective air bag, the bottom of the protective air bag is connected with the long strips on the upper portion as a whole, a closed space is formed, the long strips of the protective air bag are in seamless connection, gas communication can be achieved, the interval between the long strips of the protective air bag is 1-3 mm, and a micro inflating hole is formed in the upper end of the protective air bag which is only filled with 90-95% gas.The air bag type kneecap has the advantages that the knee joint can be bent and stretch conveniently and freely, the patella is prevented from being injured, and other persons are prevented from being injured.

The invention discloses an indoor stereoscopic planting method for gastrodia elata. The method includes selecting houses meeting requirements on ventilation and heat insulation, and erecting shelves in the houses; laying bamboo fences on the shelves and laying agricultural films on the bamboo fences; laying composts on the agricultural films, and placing a layer of tree leaves on each agricultural film; uniformly sprinkling germination fungi mixed with pollen and seeds on the tree leaves, placing tree rods on the tree leaves, reserving gaps among the tree rods, placing tree branches in the gaps, placing pure armillaria mellea strains on the tree branches, further uniformly sprinkling a layer of germination fungi mixed with pollen and seeds on the pure armillaria mellea strains on each agricultural film, and covering the agricultural films by composts and tree leaves. The height of each layer of each shelf is 40cm, and the width of each shelf ranges from 70cm to 80cm. The tree leaves are soaked by water before being placed on the agricultural films. The indoor stereoscopic planting method for the gastrodia elata has the advantages that resources, lands and labor can be saved, and difficult problems in various aspects such as replanting resistance and disease and pest injury prevention of common planting methods can be solved.

The invention provides a reining injury prevention three-dimensional protecting surrounding edge for toilet articles and relates to the toilet articles. The reining injury prevention three-dimensional protecting surrounding edge is provided with a rubber band and a protecting edge, wherein the protecting edge is a water-repellent non-woven fabric protecting edge and is in a folding double-layer structure, the folding part of the protecting edge covers and surrounds the rubber band and is an upper edge of the protecting edge, corrugated veins are uniformly distributed on the surface of the water-repellent non-woven fabrics, and the water-repellent non-woven fabrics are corrugated vein water-repellent non-woven fabrics. When the reining injury prevention three-dimensional protecting surrounding edge is used for the toilet articles such as paper diapers, other edges of the protecting edge, except the upper edge of the protecting edge, are respectively glued with the surface layer and the bottom layer of the paper diaper, the protecting edge is vertical to the surface layer and the bottom layer of the paper diaper, and the three-dimensional protecting surrounding edge is formed. The protecting edge is the water-repellent non-woven fabric protecting edge, and the water-repellent non-woven fabrics are corrugated vein water-repellent non-woven fabrics, so the glued three-dimensional protecting surrounding edge can keep the fluffy and soft state, the comfort and the air permeability can be obviously improved, in addition, the glue consumption quantity can be obviously saved, the cost is reduced, and the three-dimensional texture is improved.

Footwear as inserts to shoes or integral parts to shoes is made of rigid form with a sole portion to be placed in compression and an upper portion to flex in tension in response to foot motion and preferably is provided in a triangulation form for foot stabilization, comfort and injury prevention.

A manual transfer vest which aids in compensating for fatigue, pain, loss of strength, mobility, and energy in the daily life of a patient or individual/caregiver assisting the patient. It comprises soft, lightweight, and preferably washable material that enwraps the patient's torso, and also has at least two vertically-extending and non-adjustable hand-grip lift components with sturdy and durable construction and attachment. In most embodiments, six hand-grip lift components are used, with two upper front hand-grips preferably situated bilaterally in the clavicle/upper chest area of the patient, or the shoulder area, two lower front hand-grips situated bilaterally in the abdominal/mid-section area of the patient, and two upper back hand-grips located near the shoulders. For vest durability during repeated patient lifting, reinforcement lining material is also secured to the front exterior of the vest diagonally below hand-grips. Overall, the manual transfer vest promotes safety in preventing injuries, thereby reducing medical costs.