80 results about "Kyphosis" patented technology

A removably insertable surgical apparatus is configured for insertion between adjacent vertebrae during spinal surgery and adjusted in-situ to produce varying degrees of distraction, neural-decompression, lordotic, kyphotic and / or scoliotic adjustment in the spine.

Devices and surgical methods treat various types of adult spinal pathologies, such as degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and kypho-scoliosis. Various types of spinal joint replacement prostheses, surgical procedures for performing spinal joint replacements, and surgical instruments are used to perform the surgical procedures.

Devices and surgical methods treat various types of adult spinal pathologies, such as degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and kypho-scoliosis. Various types of spinal joint replacement prostheses, surgical procedures for performing spinal joint replacements, and surgical instruments are used to perform the surgical procedures.

Devices and surgical methods treat various types of adult spinal pathologies, such as degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and kypho-scoliosis. Various types of spinal joint replacement prostheses, surgical procedures for performing spinal joint replacements, and surgical instruments are used to perform the surgical procedures.

A cervical collar can be adjustable with respect to a wearer's head and neck, and include a back portion positionable posterior to a wearer's neck. The collar can also include a member that extends anteriorly relative to the back portion, and can have a mechanism adapted to reposition a prominence of the member superiorly, inferiorly, anteriorly, and posteriorly relative to the portion while the collar is installed on the wearer. A method of enforcing a lordotic curve in a wearer's cervical spine is also disclosed including installing a cervical collar on the wearer, adjusting the cervical collar to fit the wearer's head and neck, and positioning a member so that the member extends anteriorly with respect to the back portion to an extent that is independent of a tightness of the collar about the neck.

Spinal canal expansion through pedicle lengthening in combination with spinal column stabilization, to treat spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, kyphosis, scoliosis or a major spinal rotational deformity, with or without a spinal fusion. A device or implant that includes a pedicle lengthening implant to decompress (expand) the spinal canal, and a bridge to connect two or more pedicle lengthening implants and / or pedicle screws or bone anchors to achieve simultaneous spinal stabilization across one or more vertebral segments. The bridge across the vertebral segments can include a longitudinal member, such as a plate or rod. The pedicle lengthening implant is originally made, or can be modified to, connect to the longitudinal member. Spinal deformity can be manipulated, through operation of one or more pedicle lengthening implants in respective vertebral segments, to improve a relative relationship between the respective vertebra segments, the longitudinal member then fixating the vertebral segments into a multi-level spinal construct.

In one embodiment, a spinal orthosis includes a shoulder unit comprising a left shoulder portion and a right shoulder portion, a retracting device, a first connector connected to the left shoulder portion at a first end of the first connector and connected to the retracting device at a second end of the first connector, a second connector connected to the right shoulder portion at a first end of the second connector and connected to the retracting device at a second end of the second connector, and a lumbosacral belt attached to the retracting device, the lumbosacral belt being able to be secured to a body.

A flexible surrogate spine assembly for a crash test dummy includes a plurality of vertebra discs, a plurality of ligament joints disposed between the vertebra discs, the ligament joints having a joint element with varying joint angles that can replicate Kyphosis and Lordosis angles of a human spine.

The present invention relates generally to a device of and a method for correcting spinal deformities, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. The invention employs the superelasticity or pseudoelasticity, such as found in a nickel-titanium alloy, to provide a continuous, predictable, and controllable correction force and to achieve a gradual and full correction. The correction force can be exerted on the deformed spine either at the time of the spine surgery or after the surgery or both, to afford a full or substantially full correction. The continuous and controllable correction force of the present invention is safer than an instantaneous and large correction force applied only at the time of surgery. Additionally, the continuous and controllable correction force is capable of gradually and fully correcting the spinal deformities without any post-operative manipulation of the correction device or re-operation.

A hand-held mobile device configured to measure spinal curves for detecting and analyzing kyphosis. The measuring device is equipped with a detector that can sense the angle of at certain points of the spine by holding an edge of the device against the spine and detecting the angle of inclination of the device. The device can interface with a server for collecting, storing and analyzing several data points collected over time, and providing diagnoses and remedial measures.

A traction device comprises a frame, a first bladder portion, a second bladder portion, a strap, and a pump. The first bladder expands in an outward direction a distance greater than in a transverse direction. The second bladder expands in an angular direction. The second bladder is positioned generally below and to the side of the first bladder. The frame is secured to the user's head. Upon expanding in the outward direction, the first bladder bears against the back of the user's neck and forces the cervical spine to curve forwardly. Upon expanding in the transverse direction, the first bladder applies an angular traction to the cervical spine. Upon expanding in the angular direction, the second bladder bears angularly against the back of the user's upper thoracic region and forces the thoracic spine to decompress and reduces hyper-kyphosis of the upper thoracic spine.

A posture correction exercise device is disclosed to aid in correcting the common postural condition of kyphosis-lordosis by aiding in the exercise of the spinal erectors to strengthen the erectors to pull the user's spine and torso backward into normal alignment and by exercise of the mid-trapezious, rhomboid and posterior deltoid muscles to strengthen these muscles to pull the user's shoulder blades together and force the shoulders into normal alignment. The device operates by seating the user upon a declined seat to provide increased resistance by gravity. The device provides resistance to backward movement of user's body and resistance to backward rotation of user's arms. The hands of the user are positioned in supinated palms-up hand positions to increase the training effect of the backward rotation of the user's arms.

The invention provides an operating bed for the department of ophthalmology, and relates to the technical field of medical equipment of the department of ophthalmology. In the operating bed, a conical hole is formed in a mattress, an air bag is arranged in the conical hole, and when a patient is a kyphosis patient, air in the air bag can be discharged so as to meet the requirement for lying of the kyphosis patient. A headrest is arranged on a bed board, an MP3 player is arranged in the headrest, when operation is performed on a patient, soothing light music can be played through the MP3 player, and therefore the mental stress of the patient is relieved. The bed board is in the lifting type design, the bed board can rise and fall as long as a button is pressed, the needs of doctors of different statures during operation can be met, and therefore the doctors can perform operations conveniently. An illuminating lamp and a magnifying lens are arranged at the head of the bed and can be folded into a second support located at the position of the head of the bed. The operating bed is high in intelligent degree and humanization degree and can be popularized and used clinically and conveniently.

Low-profile anterior vertebral plate assemblies and methods of use are disclosed herein. The plate assemblies herein are useful for coupling adjacent vertebral bodies together. Preferred vertebral plates assemblies herein are low-profile, meaning that the assemblies herein are positioned partially within and partially outside of the intervertebral space. Additional teachings are directed to hinged low-profile anterior vertebral plate assemblies that allow slight flexion towards the vertebral bodies in a sufficient amount to prevent kyphosis, and encourage a desired amount of lordosis.

The present invention relates generally to a device of and a method for correcting spinal deformities, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. The invention employs the superelasticity or pseudoelasticity, such as found in a nickel-titanium alloy, to provide a continuous, predictable, and controllable correction force and to achieve a gradual and full correction. The correction force can be exerted on the deformed spine either at the time of the spine surgery or after the surgery or both, to afford a full or substantially full correction. The continuous and controllable correction force of the present invention is safer than an instantaneous and large correction force applied only at the time of surgery. Additionally, the continuous and controllable correction force is capable of gradually and fully correcting the spinal deformities without any post-operative manipulation of the correction device or re-operation.

The invention provides a method for setting a seed bed inside a tea nursery, which is essentially characterized in that: (1) the seed bed is set to be kyphosis-shaped, that is, high in middle and lower in both sides; (2) a shading trellis is arranged above the seed bed; (3) yellow soil is spread on the border field and acidity of soil is maintained. The method has the advantages that: (1) the border field of the seed bed is kyphosis-shaped and no water is accumulated on the border field, which ensures full development of seedling root system and high survival rate of seedlings. In addition, uneven border field is favorable to ventilate, thus ensuring fast growth and nursery of the seedlings, so the method is applicable to the cuttage method of short sprout and shoot; the yellow soil is spread on the border field, which ensures that the acidity of the soil on the seed bed is maintained, which is applicable to the growth of new root and survival of the seedlings; a shade net is used for shading to avoid exposure in sunlight from July to August, thus greatly improving the survival rate of the seedlings.

The invention relates to a chair preventing spinal curvature. The chair preventing spinal curvature effectively solves the problem that a current chair preventing spinal curvature cannot prevent scoliosis, has a poor prevention effect and does not have a massage function; according to the technical scheme, the chair preventing spinal curvature comprises a chair body, and is characterized in that the chair body is slidably connected with an anti-scoliosis device up and down, and the chair body is slidably connected with an anti-kyphosis device front and back; the anti-scoliosis device comprisestwo vertical plates, the two vertical plates are connected to a first driving motor, the anti-kyphosis device comprises a semi-circular guide rail, the semi-circular guide rail is connected with twoarc-shaped retaining rings, and the two arc-shaped retaining rings are connected with a second driving motor. The chair preventing spinal curvature has the advantages that the rigid arc-shaped retaining rings capable of being adjusted back and forth are used for replacing a soft bandage, so that adjustment can be carried out while a corrective effect is strengthened; the anti-scoliosis device is additionally arranged, so that scoliosis caused by the fact that the body of a user skews for a long time is prevented; a waist and back massage device is also additionally arranged, so that the user sits for a long time is massaged, thereby preventing other symptoms induced by long-time muscle fatigue from occurring.

A controlled stent for kyphotic surgery is used for ankylosing spondylitis kyphosis osteotomy reduction surgery, and comprises a rectangular front bedplate arranged on a base for supporting the head and shoulders of a patient, a rectangular rear bedplate for supporting the buttocks and legs of the patient, and a curved plate for supporting the chest and abdomen of the patient, wherein the curved plate is formed of a plurality of support plates on parallel hinges by connection, is horizontally connected and fixed on the base through a height adjustment mechanism, and can move up and down under the drive of the height adjustment mechanism. Through the arrangement of the curved plate structure for supporting the chest and abdomen, the controlled stent for kyphotic surgery, provided by the invention, realizes digital and automatic adjustment of the spinal curvature of a patient according to the need of a surgery, the operation is simple and quick, the control precision is high, time-consuming is less, secondary damage to the patient is small, and the patient's comfort is high.

A backrest inclination structure for lumbar support enables a backrest to enter a free state when a user sitting at any position of a chair lifts a lever of a spring continuous control unit, such that the backrest fits the user's moving back when the backrest is configured for movable inclination. Hence, the backrest can move together with the user's back ergonomically to provide lumbar support. Accordingly, the user can sit comfortably on the chair and be free from lumbago and kyphosis which are common among sedentary individuals.

With limited nutrients within the avascular disc, the water-retaining proteoglycans begin to diminish, resulting in dehydration, flattening and / or bulging of the disc. The flattened disc causes segmental instability, eroding the facet joints and causing pain.In this invention, a disc inserting device contains a horizontally oriented protrusion with superior and inferior plateaus for inserting into the degenerated disc to maintain or restore disc height. The horizontally oriented protrusion is adjoined to a vertically oriented concave bracket with screw holes for fastening the concave bracket to the vertebral bodies sandwiching the degenerated disc. Thereby, the disc height is restored and fortified to reduce segmental instability and erosion of facet joints for pain relief. Furthermore, by altering the slopes of the plateaus, thickness and depth of the protrusion, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis or spondylolisthesis can be corrected with the disc inserting device.

The invention relates to a method for making a thoracolumbar vertebra deformity posterior individualized osteotomy navigation template. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: reconstructing a three-dimensional model of whole spine and pelvis based on a medical image; performing a simulate operation on the three-dimensional model; simulating osteotomy to recover normal physiological curvature of the spine; and making an osteotomy template according to the osteotomy position and size of the simulate operation; and printing the osteotomy template by 3D printing. The osteotomy template is individualized; in the operation, the subjectivity in selecting the osteotomy position and size and the repeated operation perspective and the like are avoided; the method is suitable for the kyphosis orthopaedics of old thoracolumbar vertebra fracture, orthopaedics of spinal tumor, osteotomy orthopaedics of ankylosing spondylitis and the like; and moreover, the operation is easy, the requirements on doctors are relatively low, the operation risk is lowered, the operation efficiency is increased, and the operation cost is reduced.

The invention is concerned with the exercise equipment that can rectify pose, it is: helps the spine upright muscle to exercise in order that the user's spine and trunk pulls with normal alignment backwards, and rectifies the normal post status of the kyphoscoliosis and lordoma, exercises the rhombus muscle and the back deltoid to strengthen the muscle in order to pull the scapula of the user together, that the shoulder is the normal alignment. The operation of the equipment is that the user sets on the angling seat in order to augmented resistance by gravity. The equipment provides resistance for the backward movement of the user's body and the backward rotation of the arms. The hand of the user is at the position of palm upwards in order to increase the operation effect when the arms of the user rotate backwards.

The invention discloses a general spine kyphosis orthotic device. A shoulder component is fixedly connected with a belly bending plate through a back connecting plate; a plurality of mounting holes are uniformly formed in the back connecting plate; a mounting hole is formed in the bottom of the fixed plate of the shoulder component, the fixed plate is fixedly mounted at the upper part of the backconnecting plate through the mounting hole, pulling plates are fixedly connected with each other through bolts, and the length of the shoulder component can be adjusted by adjusting the positions of the fixed plate and the pulling plates; and a plurality of mounting holes are formed in the top of a belly pulling plate. The three parts such as the shoulder component, the back connecting plate and the belly bending part form a three-point force system, the spine is controlled in a normal physiological curvature position, the chest is thrown and the belly is received, so that the malformation ofhumpback (spine kyphosis) is controlled and corrected effectively; and different sizes can be adjusted, so that the problems that the orthopedic amount of a spine orthotic device is too small or too large in the market so that a patient feels discomfortable and the orthotic device needs to be changed along with the recovery of the patient to cause that the cost is increased are solved thoroughly.

A mechanical assembly for single point torque adjustment, an apparatus and a method of use of an improved belt for body support and for assisting body during musculoskeletal activities like heavy lifting, kneeling, bending and walking are provided. The belt employs the single point torque adjusting mechanical assembly with an adjustable hinge (104) along with resilient means (105, 105') which stores potential energy when the user alters from a neutral position and may help the body to return to the neutral position. The belt employs structure to share and direct load from head, neck, and back to waist and ground. The apparatus may prevent the user from acquiring spondylitis, kyphosis or osteoporosis. The apparatus may be used for users who are subjected to frequent muscular work like bending us and down while carrying heavy loads, sitting too long, walking and the like.

The invention discloses an electronic spinal column measuring chair and a measuring method thereof. The electronic spinal column measuring chair comprises a seat chair, an elastic chair back, film pressure sensors, attitude sensors, a simulation signal conditioning module, a data processing module, a power supply module, a display module, a communication module, a storage module and interactive keys. According to the electronic spinal column measuring chair disclosed by the invention, a plurality of measuring points are arranged on a central line of the measuring chair back, and the corresponding film pressure sensor and the corresponding attitude sensor are mounted in each measuring point, and are used for acquiring the back spine column condition of a person to be measured that sits on the measuring chair; the film pressure sensors are used for acquiring pressure values of points where the elastic chair back is in contact with the spine column of the person to be measured; the attitude sensors are used for measuring course angles, piloting angles and rolling angles of the contact points where the elastic chair back is in contact with the spine column of the person to be measured;and the data processing module is used for treating the data to comprehensively form a three-dimensional shape of the spine column, so that whether the person to be measured has spinal deformity situations including scoliosis, kyphosis and the like is judged.

The invention discloses a percutaneous puncture transverse balloon distraction percutaneous kyphoplasty surgical instrument. The instrument comprises a working bushing, a solid puncture needle core, a guide inner core bushing, a pre-bent elastic guide needle, a hollow soft drill and the like, wherein the solid puncture needle core is placed in the working bushing; after the solid puncture needle core is taken out, the guide inner core bushing can be placed in the working bushing; the pre-bent elastic guide needle is placed in the guide inner core bushing, can be arranged in the central hollow part by the hollow soft drill in a penetrating manner and is placed in the working bushing together with the pre-bent elastic guide needle; the pre-bent elastic guide needle can be arranged in the central hollow part in the penetrating manner through a hollow balloon pressurization system and the hollow balloon pressurization system is placed in the working bushing together with the pre-bent elastic guide needle. A conventional diagonally and eccentrically placed distraction balloon can be changed to be transversely and centrally placed to realize single-side puncture so as to achieve the purpose of full filling of bone cement; the height of anterior edge of the vertebral body can be more effectively restored, the operation time can be shortened, the amount of transmission ray in operation is reduced, and the kyphosis osteotomy of vertebral column is reduced.

The invention discloses a balloon guide apparatus for pedicle approach kyphosis vertebroplasty operation. The balloon guide apparatus comprises a guide wire, a cannula and a balloon. The balloon is arranged at the front end of the cannula and is connected with the cannula by a flexible tube, a memory alloy section is arranged on the guide wire and is arranged in the flexible tube at a joint of the cannula and the balloon, the cannula comprises an inner cannula I, an outer cannula, a guide wire inlet and a liquid inlet, the outer cannula sleeves the inner cannula I, the guide wire inlet is formed in an end of the cannula and is communicated with the inner cannula I, the liquid inlet is formed in a side of the cannula and is communicated with the outer cannula, an inner cannula II is arranged in a balloon body of the balloon, the outer cannula is communicated with the balloon body, the inner cannula I is communicated with the inner cannula II, and the guide wire is arranged in the inner cannula I and the inner cannula II. The balloon guide apparatus has the advantages that the guide wire can be compressed and relaxed at different temperatures by the aid of characteristics of memory alloy, accordingly, the balloon can be driven to be bent towards opposite vertebral bodies, the opposite vertebral bodies can be spread by the balloon to the greatest extent, and bone cement support spaces can be built in the opposite vertebral bodies; effects of enlarging and balancing the bone cement support spaces can be realized under the condition that operation wound is reduced.

A flexible surrogate spine assembly for a crash test dummy includes a plurality of vertebra discs, a plurality of ligament joints disposed between the vertebra discs, the ligament joints having a joint element with varying joint angles that can replicate Kyphosis and Lordosis angles of a human spine.

The invention provides a cervical vertebra treatment pillow. The pillow comprises a head pillow body and a rear vertebra pillow body. The head pillow body comprises an intermediate supine pillow bodyand latericumbent pillow bodies on both sides, the height L1 of the junction of the rear vertebra pillow body and the supine pillow body is 5-8 cm, the height of the distal end of the rear vertebra pillow body is 3-5cm, an included angle formed between the upper arc surface of the distal end of the rear vertebra pillow body and the lower plane is 20-30 degrees, the supine pillow body is a backwardinclined groove, and the head pillow body and the rear vertebra pillow body are made of hard materials. The pillow can play a relative braking and fixing function on the head and neck and reduce abnormal movement of the head and neck during sleep, is made of hard materials, has a certain supporting force, and can ensure that the physiological curvature of the neck is not deformed. When a patientlies on the pillow, the cervical vertebra straightening or kyphosis is automatically corrected through the action of the gravity of the head, and through long-term use by the patient, a certain therapeutic effect on rehabilitation of the cervical vertebra can be achieved.