136 results about "Neck pain" patented technology

An inflatable cervical cushion for providing support to the cervical spine and surrounding cervical musculature of the wearer while seated. The present invention is for an inflatable cervical cushion which adjustably reinforces the neck to support the cervical spine in a proper lordotic position, alleviating neck pain caused by improper posture and fatigue. The cushion encircles the wearer's neck and rests on the wearer's shoulders, and contains a compartment with an inflatable cushion centrally located in the back of the cushion. The inflatable cushion is of a rectangular or oval design which is positioned horizontally in the back of the neck such that the thicker center portion of the cushion supports the cervical spine and the thinner end portions support the surrounding musculature. In addition, there is a vertical extension from the top of the cushion which supports the base of the skull, or occiput, thereby supporting the skull at the same time of supporting the cervical spine. Support is provided when the wearer is seated and the cushion creates pressure between the wearer and the back of a chair. The cushion is inflated by manual means such that the firmness and pressure of the cushion is totally adjustable.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to optical systems with ergonomic presentation of content for use in head-worn computing systems. A method for controlling a head-worn computer when viewing virtual images, including image content, that encourages an ergonomic head position to reduce neck pain, includes determining an angle of the head-worn computer relative to horizontal, determining an angle of a line of sight to the center of the virtual image as presented to a user's eye, determining a deviation between the determined angle of the line of sight and a predetermined ergonomic angle, and shifting the image content of the virtual image vertically as displayed to the user's eye so that a portion of the image content is not viewable, wherein the amount of shifting is in reverse correspondence to the magnitude of the determined deviation.

A cervical therapy device for providing continuous passive motion to the head or neck of a patient includes a patient's support such as a chair and an upwardly extending frame which extends upwardly above the chair. The frame supports a two piece neck bracket for fitting around a patient's neck. The neck bracket also includes a chin support and occipital cuff for positioning the patient's head within the bracket. The device also includes an actuator and controller for providing continuous passive motion to the head and neck of the patient. The device also includes a pair of double pivotal joint assemblies which allow a movement about two perpendicular axes with linear movement along one of the axes so that the head and neck are moved through a series of prescribed movements to relieve neck pain and / or disfunction.

A hands-free lactation aid and soothing garment can be used for simultaneous warm and cool therapy. Therapeutic cozies can be used in conjunction with a camisole or nursing camisole, bra, or nursing bra or apparel, can be inserted into a cozy cover for use with an adjustable neckband. With the appropriate breast cozies, breast pumping or nursing can occur simultaneously with warm / cool therapy, and a privacy shield attaches easily. An additional neck therapy insert can be used to sooth a sore neck, while an additional nipple soother can be attached to the center of the cozies to provide simultaneous warm and cold therapy to the effected area.

The present invention includes an ergonomic chair that is useful for people who sit for an extended period of time at work, in avoiding work station related back pain and neck pain. The present invention incorporates a hemispherical seat which can be locked in position and comprises a fixed inner hemisphere, a movable outer hemisphere, and a shroud. The support pole where the inner hemisphere is bolted into absorbs the load from the user, and the outer hemisphere equipped with hydraulic or pneumatic resistance devices and attached to the tension springs provides a balanced movement of the chair. Accordingly, while sitting on the chair, the present invention allows no deformation on the rigid hemispherical seat, and keeps the spine of the user in a desirable alignment, further improving the internal function of the user's organs. The present invention can also be used as an office stretch GYM ball.

The invention discloses a neck massage physical therapy instrument comprising a shell in which a hot compress module, an infrared physical therapy module and a vibration massage module are arranged. The massage physical therapy instrument can perform physical therapy on a neck while generating hot compress, infrared physical therapy and high-frequency vibration functions via the hot compress module, the infrared physical therapy module and the vibration massage module. Compared with existing similar products, the neck massage physical therapy instrument plays a role in easing neck pain by the hot compress function; infrared irradiation can prompt growth of cells and speed up wound healing, and play a role in repairing cervical vertebra strain, and thus is also applied to hospital surgery; and the high-frequency vibration also plays a role in massaging and relaxing. The invention also has a Bluetooth function which facilitates recreation, relaxing and answering of calls, and attracts customers for usual and long-term use; furthermore, the neck massage physical therapy instrument adopts a neckerchief type structure design, so that the shell is better fit with the neck, good wrapping is provided, and use of two hands is not influenced in massage; compared with existing similar products, the neck massage physical therapy instrument has significant competitiveness, and is worthy of great popularization.

The Ergonomic Göbelek Chair of the present disclosure is useful for avoiding work related back and neck pain associated with extended periods of time sitting by providing a hemispherical seat which promotes correct posture and spine alignment as a user sits. The hemispherical seat includes a fixed inner hemisphere, a movable outer hemisphere received by and positioned over the inner hemisphere, and a shroud enclosing a portion of the inner and outer hemispheres. Affixed to the inner hemisphere, between the inner hemisphere and the outer hemisphere, is a series of bearings which allow the outer hemisphere to move adjacent to the inner hemisphere. A locking system locks and unlocks the outer hemisphere. The Ergonomic Göbelek Chair further includes foldable back and arm rests capable of folding away from the hemispherical seat for use of the hemispherical seat as a stretch gym ball.

An adapter apparatus interfaces an accessory including a portable handheld device and a mounting product for a physically secure and stabilized assembly for stabilized, hands-free functionality. The adapter apparatus is ergonomically designed to enable optimal viewing angles of a portable handheld device as well as facilitate neutral postures of a user through elevation of the portable handheld device to improve head and neck posture of a user thereby increasing comfort and minimizing neck pain of the user.

A cervical traction method and apparatus for treating irregularities in the lateral curvature of the cervical region of the spine involves the application of traction load to induce an axially elongated or extension posture in the cervical region of the patient's spine. The patient is placed in a supine or seated position, and a traction halter is fitted about the head of the patient, with a traction sling also being optionally positioned about the cervical region of the patient. A traction load, which may have an intermittently varying magnitude, is exerted on one or more of the sling or halter to induce an axially elongated and / or extension posture in the cervical region. The axially elongated posture at least partially diminishes the lateral curvature of the cervical region of the spine in the patient, and the extension posture at least partially restores the lateral curvature to the cervical region of the spine in the patient, thereby reducing symptoms such as neck pain, upper back pain, headaches, and other symptoms of mechanical origin that result from irregular lateral curvature of the spine.

The invention relates to a ligusticum wallichii rheumatalgia-relieving and blood-circulating plaster which is prepared from the following raw materials: ligusticum wallichii, angelica sinensis, monkshood, kusnezoff monkshood root, semen strychni, frankincense, myrrh, radix angelicae pubescentis, phryma leptostachya, pangolin scales, resina draconis, homalomena rhizome and eucommia Bark. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: in the thirteen tastes of traditional Chinese herbs, grinding frankincense, myrrh and resina draconis into fine powder, sieving and uniformly mixing the fine powder; cutting the rest ten tastes of traditional Chinese herbs such as angelica sinensis into small pieces, frying the pieces to be dried in a pan with 2500 to 4000 g of sesame oil, removing slag, filtering and refining the sesame oil till sesame oil forms balls when dripped; adding 1200 to 210 g of red lead to the oil, uniformly stirring the oil, collecting the paste and soaking the paste into water; taking the paste out of water, melting the paste by slow fire, adding the fine powder and uniformly stirring the fine powder; laying the paste on a piece of cloth and then applying the cloth on the affected part. The invention has the advantages of short course, convenient use, capabilities of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, removing pathogenic wind and cold, activating meridians and stopping pain, relaxing tendons and muscles and setting fractures. The invention is a cure for treating the diseases such as neck pain, shoulder pain, backache and leg pain and fracture caused by obstruction of blood circulation and collateral obstruction of wind-cold.

The present invention discloses an apparatus for treating patient body or an organ thereof, especially his / her head and neck, by controllably maneuvering said treated organ, comprising; cradle adapted for holding said treated organ stably and comfortably; and, a maneuverable platform upon which said cradle rests, comprising maneuvering means adapted for rotating the platform in the Sagittal, Coronal, Horizontal planes or in any combination of the planes thereof for a predetermined duration; wherein said maneuver of said organ is characterized by parameters selected from the Allowed Movements. It is especially in the scope of the invention wherein the treated organ is maneuvered in a lobular three dimensional manner. The invention also discloses methods for treating patient body or an organ thereof by this apparatus; methods for decreasing HIT, MIDAS, VAS / NRS, NDI and EPS, and a method for increasing (S)MFA.

A contoured motorcycle seat. The contoured motorcycle seat includes one or more depressions for a rider and / or passenger to help relieve genital, back and neck pain. It also includes one or more air channel vents that vent the one or more depressions to help prevent heat build up and one more drain holes to drain any liquids that may enter the depressions.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating cervical vertebra pain and other diseases caused by cervical spondylosis, which comprises a suffocating medicine bag, a neck energy massage oil, a neck traditional Chinese medicine support and a neck medicine plaster. The traditional Chinese medicine composition ensures that traditional Chinese medicines of all steps act on a focus part according to methods of steaming, pushing, massaging and plastering. The medicine effects of the traditional Chinese medicines in the traditional Chinese medicine composition have synergistic effect, all medicine bags are organically and sequentially matched on the focus, the traditional Chinese medicine composition can dredge the neck channels, direct the strength, activate the blood circulation, improve the uncomfortable symptoms of ache and stiff of the neck, relieve the pain of the neck, improve the muscle ache, and accelerate the local blood circulation and the metabolism. When applied to treating the cervical vertebra pain and other diseases caused by cervical spondylosis, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has convenient treatment, no any pain and high cure effective rate reaching over 98 percent, and can obtain remarkable effect.

The invention discloses a medicine for treating neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, which relates to a Chinese traditional medicine and is characterized by being prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 15-25 parts of angelica, 10-20 parts of teasel, 8-16 parts of radix cyathulae, 6-14 parts of mastic, 6-14 parts of myrrh, 6-12 parts of szechuan aconite, 6-12 parts of wild aconite, 6-14 parts of angelica, 8-16 parts of safflower, 10-20 parts of american lopseed, 160-240 parts of red lead and 1250-1350 parts of sesame oil. The clinical repeated practice proves that the medicine disclosed by the invention has the functions of activating blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, expelling wind and removing dampness and relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, has the beneficial effects of high cure rate, centralized potency, high acting speed, no toxic side effects, long medical effect duration (one week), low cost and wide disease treatment range, enables patients to be painless, and can be used for treating various diseases such as neck pain, shoulder pain, waist pain, arm pain, leg pain, joint pain, lumbar muscle strain, rheumatalgia and the like.

An I-shaped pillow has a curved slot that fits the contour of a person's head and neck to allow them to comfortably sleep on their back. The pillow further includes a slot at the bottom to prevent the pillow from lying flat on a surface. This prevents a user from having their hair make contact with pillow, providing people with a convenient way to get a good night's sleep without flattening their hairstyle. The pillow provides neck support while sleeping, helping relieve neck pain. The pillow can be used by anyone looking to maintain their hairstyle during their sleep.

A device for relieving back and / or neck pain of a seated user through spinal decompression includes a frame, a seat base connected to the frame, and a seat back connected to the frame. The seat base has a front portion and a rear portion, with the seat back extending from the rear portion of the seat base. At least one of the seat base and the seat back is movable relative to the other of the seat base and the seat back to increase a distance between the seat base and the seat back to decompress a spine of the seated user.

A therapeutic device has a body (2) with a shoulder-engaging part (12) and a chest-engaging part (11) and elevated pivot supports (12) extending upwardly from the shoulder-engaging part (12) at locations to be on opposed sides of a patient's head in use. A head support (3) with a chin cradle (35) is pivotally connected by pivot joints (20) to the pivot supports (12). Torsion springs (24) bias the head support (3) upwardly. Sensors wirelessly provide data to a processor such as a smartphone so that the extent of movement of the head support can be monitored.

The invention relates to a cervical vertebra recovery instrument which comprises a pillow cover and a pillow core, wherein the pillow cover is covered outside the pillow core, a rectangular recessed groove is arranged at the middle part of the cervical vertebra recovery instrument, a headrest is arranged below the recessed groove, the upper side of the headrest is provided with an upper neck pillow and the lower side of the headrest is provided with as a lower neck pillow; and the upper neck pillow and the lower neck pillow are both provided with long cylindrical air cushions which are provided with electromagnetic parts; furthermore, the electromagnetic parts comprise electric insulating material matrixes in which conductive coils are arranged, and the outer surfaces of electric insulating materials are coated with magnetic conductive heating materials. According to the invention, the cervical vertebra recovery instrument not only meets requirements of people on different sleeping postures of supination and left side lying and right side lying, but also has an efficacy of thermostat electromagnetic physiotherapy, can be used for promoting the blood circulation, relieving the neck pain, improving the sleep, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating cervical spondylosis.

A contoured motorcycle seat. The contoured motorcycle seat includes one or more depressions for a rider and / or passenger to help relieve genital, back and neck pain. It also includes one or more air channel vents that vent the one or more depressions to help prevent heat build up and one more drain holes to drain any liquids that may enter the depressions.

The present invention discloses a Miao medicine liniment for treating the pains on neck-shoulder-waist-leg, which relates to a medicine preparation. The formula of the liniment is as follows: 80 to 100g of Yunnan manyleaf Paris rhizome, 50 to 60g of hemsleya sphaerocarpa, 4 to 5g of Tibet safflower, 40 to 50g of turmeric, 50 to 60g of aloes, 40 to 50g of India madder root, 30 to 40g of aconitum brachypodum diels, 50 to 60g of dried ginger and 1500g of Kaoliang spirit. The preparation method is that the 8 medicines are soaked in the 55 percent to 60 percent edible alcohol for more than 15 days after roasting and broiling, so as to prepare the liniment, the present invention mainly cure the hyperosteogeny, lumbar disc herniation, spinal stenosis, spinal canal stenosis and other bone and joint diseases on the cervical spine, lumbar vertebrae, knee joint and various parts of the human body. Compared with the existing medicines, the present invention has the following advantages: (1) the patients do not need the detention in hospital for treatment; (2) the present invention has no toxicity or side effects, safety and reliability; (3) the present invention can treat both the manifestation and the root cause of disease, which can not only diminish inflammation, stop the pain, activate the blood circulation, remove the blood stasis, dredge the meridian, remove the dampness and remove the stagnation, but can also soften the bone spur, discharge the free matters, supplement the bone nutrients and promote the cell metabolism; (4) the treatment is simple and the application scope is wide; (5) the cost is low, the price is not high and the production is easy.

The invention relates to a rotary cervical curvature tractor. A supporting point is arranged at the rear part of the cervical vertebra of a human body and the traction is carried out along the curvature arc direction of the cervical vertebra of the human body. By the technical scheme, an active mechanical acting force is utilized to carry out curvature traction on the cervical vertebra, so that not only is the safety of the cervical vertebra ensured and new damage to the cervical vertebra cannot be caused, but also the cervical vertebra of a patient suffering from the cervical vertebra disease can be recovered to the normal and original physiological curvature; due to the adoption of the curvature traction, the intervertebral space can be widened and the stability and the normal physiological functions of the cervical vertebra can be recovered; the muscle spasm is relieved, adhered tissues are stripped and loosened and the inflammation is eliminated; and the blood supply is improved and the rotary cervical curvature tractor is beneficial for recovering the nervous tissue function and has a certain relieving and recovering effects on the degenerative change of the vertebral column of the human body, the neck pain and the cervical spondylotic radiculopathy which are caused by the case that the patient bends over a table to work, study and drive for a long time.

An adapter apparatus interfaces an accessory including a portable handheld device and a mounting product for a physically secure and stabilized assembly for stabilized, hands-free functionality. The adapter apparatus is ergonomically designed to enable optimal viewing angles of a portable handheld device as well as facilitate neutral postures of a user through elevation of the portable handheld device to improve head and neck posture of a user thereby increasing comfort and minimizing neck pain of the user.

The invention discloses neck pain treatment capsules, wherein a purpose of the present invention is to solve problems of poor effect and the like in the prior art. The neck pain treatment capsules are prepared from bulk drugs such as szechwan lovage rhizome, tuckahoe, tangerine peel, milkvetch root, frankincense, myrrh, corydalis tuber, Chinese thorowax root, divaricate saposhnikovia, east asian tree fern, angelica archang lica, safflower, tall gastrodia rhizome, ligusticum, licorice root, combined spicebush root, salvia miltiorrhiza, lobed kudzuvine root, Chinese clematis root and rhizome, doubleteeth angelica root, earthworm, achyranthes bidentata, angelica, incised notopterygium rhizome and root and the like. The neck pain treatment capsule are a pure traditional Chinese medicine preparation, has characteristics of safety and no toxic-side effect, and has effects of wind-evil dispelling, dampness eliminating, collateral dredging and pain relieving. According to the present invention, results of 20 year clinical trials for neck pains, back pains, shoulder pains and other symptoms caused by cervical spondylosis, and 600 patient use results show that an efficiency rate is 100%, and a cure rate is up to 85%.

The invention relates to a spinal injury rehabilitation training and protection suit. The spinal injury rehabilitation training and protection suit consists of a forehead restraint strap, a lower jaw support, a head supporting plate, straps, a spine plate, a waist restraint strap, a lower limb fixator and a standing rest device. The spinal injury rehabilitation training and protection suit has the advantages that the suit is suitable for correction of sitting and standing postures of primary and secondary school students, protection of VR game players, training and exercise protection, postoperative rehabilitation training of patients undergoing spinal operations and suitable for persons needing to strengthen back / abdominal muscles (white-collar workers / drivers and other persons sitting for a long time, having no time to exercise and accordingly suffering from waist and back ache and neck ache), prevents whiplash injury of the spines of drivers and passengers during emergency braking, prevents the spines of firemen or miners from being injured by falling crashing heavy object during fire fighting or mining, rapidly fixes the wounded suffering from spinal injury and the like. The spinal injury rehabilitation training and protection suit is provided with the standing rest device can be used for an exercising or outdoor user to have a rest at an approximate standing posture.

The invention discloses a making method of a graphene electrothermal film analgesic external plaster. The plaster comprises a graphene electrothermal film and a gel drug layer arranged in the middle of the upper surface of the graphene electrothermal film; gel drugs are positioned on the gel drug layer; the gel drugs comprise a drug composition and an adjuvant material substrate, wherein the adjuvant material substrate is amphiphilic gel; the drug composition is prepared from the following components: fructus corni, azalea flower, white paeony root, red paeony root, echinacea purpurea, marigold flower, aesculus chinensis extract, echinacea purpurea moench ethanol extract, rhizoma arnicae montanae, safrole and a peppermint extract. The analgesic external plaster provided by the invention has functions of promoting local blood circulation and physically treating chronic pain, and is suitable for alleviating various chronic and old pains such as low back pain, neck pain and joint pain which are caused by falling injury, sprains and strains.

The invention discloses a gingko and bamboo charcoal magnetic therapy automobile pillow which comprises a U-shaped pillow interior (1). The U-shaped pillow interior (1) is sleeved with a pillow face cover (2). The gingko and bamboo charcoal magnetic therapy automobile pillow is characterized in that a health care bag (3) is arranged on the U-shaped pillow interior (1), a gingko traditional Chinese medicine bag (4) and a bamboo charcoal bag (5) are arranged inside the health care bag (3), bamboo charcoal in the bamboo charcoal bag (5) is in a granule shape, circular magnetic sheets (6) are arranged on the bamboo charcoal bag (5), the circular magnetic sheets (6) are evenly distributed along the U shape, a zipper (7) is arranged on the side, along the arc shape, of the pillow face cover (2), and two-side viscose cloth (8) is arranged at the two ends of the U shape of the pillow face cover (2). The gingko and bamboo charcoal magnetic therapy automobile pillow integrates with the medical therapy function and the health care function, shoulder and neck pains are removed through the magnet therapy, negative ions generated by the bamboo charcoal have penetration and release capacity, so that air is freshened, gingko traditional Chinese medicine can be absorbed by a human body easily, neck blood circulation is promoted, and thus people can sit in an automobile comfortably.

An improved ergonomic chair, including a chair base, a chair cushion and a chair back located to the rear of the chair base. Support strength of cushion pads on the chair back assumes a fan-shape extending from a lower end towards the upper end, thereby dispersing the compressive stress on the lower back and supporting the back of a person. A support cushion is located on the chair back corresponding to the cervical vertebra of a person, and a head cushion, provided with a plurality of depressions, is located on the chair back above the support cushion. Accordingly, the design of the support cushion and the head cushion facilitating the dispersal of the compressive stress on the lower back and support of the back and cervical vertebra provide the chair back with the ability to appropriately support the cervical vertebra, thereby enabling neck pains to be avoided when sitting.

The invention provides a method for alleviating discogenic pain by administering a therapeutic agent that disrupts neuronal and / or vascular elements in the disc, which is typically a degenerated disc. Disruption of neuronal elements in the disk includes destroying nerve endings without substantially affecting the central body of the nerve, suppressing activation of the nerve endings, and inhibiting the growth of nerve endings into the disk. Disruption of vascular elements includes causing the vascular extensions to retract from the disk, or suppressing the formation of such extensions. The therapeutic agent may be administered locally via an interbody pump, a bolus or a depot, or may be administered systemically.