36 results about "Joint mobility" patented technology

The instant invention provides a method of treating or preventing osteoarthritis, joint effusion, joint inflammation and pain, synovitis, lameness, post operative arthroscopic surgery, deterioration of proper joint function including joint mobility, the reduction or inhibition of metabolic activity of chondrocytes, the activity of enzymes that degrade cartilage, the reduction or inhibition of the production of Hyaluronic acid, said method comprising orally administering to a mammalian species a therapeutically effective amount of Hyaluronic Acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Additionally, compositions containing hyaluronic acid; chondroitin sulfate, and glucosamine sulfate in a paste formulation are also disclosed which can be administered on their own or can be used as a feed additive.

The invention provides a sports rehabilitation device for exercising upper and lower limbs, which comprises a bed body, a support frame is fixed on the left side of the bed body, an upper limb training device is arranged on a support top, the upper limb training device comprises two sets of big arm support rods and two sets of small arm support rods, the two sets of the big arm support rods are connected with the support frame by a rotating mechanism, and the two sets of the large arm support rods are also connected with two sets of small support rods through the rotating mechanism; a lower limb training mechanism is arranged on the right side of the bed body, the lower limb training mechanism is fixed on a two-degree-of-freedom sliding mechanism, and the two-degree-of-freedom sliding mechanism is fixed on the bottom of the bed body. The invention provides a sports rehabilitation device for exercising upper and lower limbs, mainly used for performing upper limb lower limb exercise forcerebral infarction or post-operative bedridden patients, through rehabilitation training, the systemic blood circulation can be promoted, the residual muscle strength can be restored, and the joint mobility can be improved.

A system for determining an indication of animal joint mobility includes a mounting apparatus configured to hold a first condyle of the joint stationary in a position such that a second condyle of the joint can pivot about the joint, a pendulum configured to be coupled to the second condyle and configured such that a portion of a weight of the pendulum is disposed below a pivot axis of the joint such that the pendulum and second condyle can oscillate about the pivot axis, an angular displacement indicator associated with the pendulum, an angular displacement recorder configured to store indicia of the angular displacement, as indicated by the angular displacement indicator; of the pendulum over time, and a processor coupled to the angular displacement recorder and configured to use the angular displacement indicia to determine a first value associated with momentum decay of oscillations of the pendulum and to use the at least one value to determine a second value associated with a coefficient of friction of the joint.

A therapeutic device adapted for facilitating recovery of joint mobility and muscle strength follow knee joint surgery in a human patient and a method for use. The therapeutic device includes an adjustable strap adapted for fitment about the midpoint of the patient's foot. A connecting strap is coupled to an edge of the adjustable strap between a pair of spaced apart swiveling connections, and a tension strap is secured about the adjustable strap and extending substantially the length of the patient's body. During use, tension maintained in the tension strap against the patient's foot facilitates knee joint flexion and provides a resistive force against knee joint extension.

Virtual Reality systems may be used in healthcare and therapy, e.g., focusing on physical and neurorehabilitation. For instance, victims of brain injury may seek treatment to improve, e.g., range of motion, balance, coordination, joint mobility, flexibility, posture, endurance, and strength. VR systems can be used to entertain and instruct patients in their movements while recreating practical exercises to further therapeutic goals. Patient movement data during physical therapy sessions may be valuable to patients and healthcare practitioners. The system may comprise a plurality of body sensors, a VR headset, and a supervisor tablet. The disclosed system may facilitate translation between real world coordinates and virtual world coordinates, assigning sensors to body parts, measuring range of motion of joints and limbs, correcting sensor orientation, recording and presenting therapy data, and generating and animating a 3-D virtual reality avatar in a virtual world to perform activities, among other benefits.

The invention discloses a finger muscle force rehabilitation table, and relates to the technical field of rehabilitation instruments. A door-shaped structure supporting beam is arranged at the upper surface of a tabletop; a fixed pulley is hooked to the supporting beam, the two ends of a traction rope are each provided with a fingerstall, one end of the traction rope winds around the fixed pulley,and the other end of the traction rope passes through a through hole formed in the tabletop, winds around a movable pulley to penetrate through an installing hole in the tabletop from bottom to top,and is clamped to the tabletop through a buckle installed on the tabletop to form a traction mechanism; each force loading mechanism is connected with the movable pulley of each traction mechanism forproviding downward force for the corresponding movable pulley. Tension of rehabilitation training is adjustable, proper force can be supplied according to the condition of a user, hand disabled patents with mobility barriers of finger flexors and extensors or finger joints can be helped to perform hand anti-resistance training, joint mobility training and hand rehabilitation training, hand bloodcirculation of the patient can be greatly promoted, and muscle atrophy is avoided; and the table is simple in structure and convenient to use and has the good practicability.

The invention features compositions and methods for the administration of an oxidatively transformed carotenoid, or a fractionated component thereof, for improving the health of animals, such as increasing joint mobility, increasing activity, and improving coat quality.

The invention is an Enhanced Patient Mobility System for use by ambulatory or recovering patients. The Enhanced Mobility System is fabricated from sturdy tubular material and has a lower U-shaped base frame member mounted on casters with an upwardly extending mid frame member and two identical side frame members lying in parallel planes and each attached at it's lower extremity to the lower U-shaped base frame member. The U-shaped base frame member, the mid frame member and the two identical side frame members define a walking space for the patient with provision for the possibility of the patient also being able to move about with oxygen tanks, a patient intravenous drip apparatus and other medical devices and apparatus which must be transported by an ambulatory patient.

The invention relates to the technical field of sport equipment, in particular to sport equipment for exercising upper-limb coordination and joint mobility. The sport equipment comprises a controllerand a processor, six connecting pieces are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the side wall of the controller, six connecting rings b are fixedly connected to the ends, away from six connecting rings a, of six tension springs, a wall pulley handle a and a wall pulley handle b are fixedly connected to the ends, away from the six tension springs, of the six connecting rings b, a grip strength rod is movably connected to the inner wall of the wall pulley handle a, two springs are fixedly connected to the side wall of the grip strength rod, and two pedal rods are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the side wall of the wall pulley handle b. According to the sport equipment for exercising upper-limb coordination and joint mobility, the wall pulley handle a and the wall pulley handle b are fixedly connected to the ends, away from the six tension springs, of the six connecting rings b, the grip strength rod is movably connected to the inner wall of the wall pulley handle a, the two springs are fixedly connected to the side wall of the grip strength rod, and two pedal rods are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the side wall of the wall pulley handle b; the function is diverse,exercising is efficient, and the structure is simple.

The invention discloses a forearm joint training adapter, a forearm joint rehabilitation training device and a training control method thereof. The forearm joint training adapter comprises a forearm joint adapter and a motion control host. The forearm joint adapter comprises an adjuster, a position adjusting mechanism, and a joint fixing piece. The joint fixing piece can be adjustably connected tothe adjuster through the position adjusting mechanism. The motion control host comprises a driving motor and a control module. The adjuster is connected to the driving motor to rotate with relative to an output shaft of the driving motor. The control module is connected to the driving motor. The control module comprises an angular position change detection module, a motor current change detectionmodule and a mode selection module. The forearm joint training adapter, the forearm joint rehabilitation training device and the training control method thereof can effectively assist a patient to perform joint exercise, improve muscle strength and joint mobility, and stretch and relax stiff joints.

Disclosed herein is Synergistic herbal composition(s) comprising combination of a first ingredient selected from the extract(s), fraction(s), phytochemical(s) and mixtures thereof derived from Murraya koenigii and a second ingredient selected from the extract(s), fraction(s), phytochemical(s) and mixtures thereof derived from Coriandrum sativum or Curcuma amada for improving cartilage growth/repair/regeneration, improving joint mobility, reducing cartilage breakdown, reducing joint pain, reducing stiffness, reducing inflammation and/or treating/alleviating symptoms associated with osteoarthritis. The invention further provides method of improving cartilage growth/repair/regeneration, improving joint mobility, reducing cartilage breakdown, reducing joint pain, reducing stiffness, reducing inflammation and/or treating/alleviating symptoms associated with osteoarthritis in a human or animal.

The invention discloses an intelligent hand rehabilitation training device. The device comprises a lifting table, and the lifting table is provided with a hand rehabilitation training mechanism capable of integrally sliding left and right along the surface of the table, a human-computer interaction all-in-one machine for setting a training mode and a training plan, and an electric control box forcontrolling the work of the hand rehabilitation training mechanism so as to actively drive or assist to induce user training. The device has a simple structure and comprehensive functions, can be usedto train wrist joint muscle strength and joint mobility and meet the needs of different users, has the advantages of high practicality and simple and convenient operation, and can greatly save hospital manpower and increase user training motivation.

The invention provides a bathing hydrotherapy machine for babies. The machine comprises a bathing tank, a hydrotherapy tank, a thermostat, a water pump, an electric ball valve and a wind pump; the bathing tank is internally provided with a water overflowing port and a water discharging port, the hydrotherapy tank is internally provided with an electric water discharging port, a manual water discharging port, a water return port, bubble nozzles, vortex nozzles, a functional faucet, a switch faucet and a thermostatic faucet. The bathing hydrotherapy machine has the following advantages that through the arrangement of the thermostat and the thermostatic faucet, it can be effectively ensured that the temperature is always in a comfortable and safe state when the babies have a bath and hydrotherapy; by forming the water overflowing port and the water discharging port in the bathing tank, the situation can be avoided that the babies are drowned during bathing due to the excessively-high water level; by arranging the bubble nozzles and the vortex nozzles in the hydrotherapy tank, the functions of vortex impact and bubble massage can be achieved, the cardio-pulmonary functions of the babies are effectively improved, the blood circulation is improved, the myospasm is relieved, the joint mobility is improved, the muscle strength is enhanced, the coordination is improved, the balance ability of the babies is improved, the gaits are corrected, and the growth and development of the babies are promoted.

The invention relates to the technical field of building foundation reinforcement and discloses a traditional building foundation reinforcement method. The method comprises the step that (1) materialcollection: reinforcement engineering personnel collect materials including the detailed construction quality, hydrogeology and foundation design data; According to the structural type, the load and the using requirements combined with the influence of the topography and landforms, the soil structure, the environment, adjacent buildings and other factors, the foundation processing scheme focuses on preliminary selection and deliberation. In addition, in the choice of the foundation reinforcement and treatment scheme, a designer should consider to take combined action of a superstructure, a foundation and a basis. According to the traditional building foundation reinforcement method, through arrangement of embracing piles, the adaptive capacity is high, and stress is relatively stable; as the embracing piles have no soil-squeezing negative effects and have the capabilities of penetrating through various types of hard interlayers and embedded rocks to get into various types of hard supporting layers, the geometric dimensions of piles and the bearing capacity and adjustable space of the single pile are large, and thus, the building foundation reinforcement effect is better.

The invention discloses use of sinomenine or medically acceptable salt thereof for preparing drugs for treatment of ischemic necrosis of femoral head. The sinomenine or the medically acceptable salt thereof is used as an active ingredient to be dosed to patients in combination with an injection and a transdermal absorbent. The use has the advantages that the sinomenine or the medically acceptablesalt thereof is used as the active ingredient and matched with an auxiliary agent to prepare the drug fixed-point injection therapy and transdermal drug delivery for the treatment of the ischemic necrosis of the femoral head, definite curative effect is achieved on the patients with the ischemic necrosis of the femoral head, the cystic and necrotic changes of the femoral head can be stopped, partof bone trabecula can be improved, and good effects are still achieved on the aspects of pain relief, improvement of hip joint mobility and the like. The method is small in trauma, good in curative effect, simple in method, no in toxic and side effects and crippling risk, the method is good conservative treatment for the ischemic necrosis of the femoral head, and is worthy of clinical applicationand popularization.

The invention discloses a rehabilitation medical treatment device for cerebral stroke in a neurology department and a rehabilitation method. The rehabilitation medical treatment device comprises a diverse treading device, wherein the diverse treading device comprises a planar moving mechanism for horizontal motion training of lower limbs of a human body, a circumferential rotating mechanism for circumferential motion training of the lower limbs of the human body, and a load bearing base for mounting the planar moving mechanism and the circumferential rotating mechanism, a chamber for enablingthe circumferential rotating mechanism to complete circumferential treading actions is formed inside the load bearing base, and the planar moving mechanism and the circumferential rotating mechanism are staggered relatively and are subjected to limited moving on the upper surface of the chamber so as to simulate the horizontal motion training of the lower limbs of the human body; and after the planar moving mechanism and the circumferential rotating mechanism are locked integrally, circumferential motion is done in the chamber so as to achieve the circumferential motion training of the lower limbs. The rehabilitation medical treatment device is high in application flexibility and high in function integration level and is applicable to entire human body function training of walking simulated recovery, joint mobility training and muscular training.