144 results about "Passive exercise" patented technology

In one aspect the present disclosure provides a method of rehabilitating a person who has suffered central nervous system damage including the steps of providing exercise equipment capable of exercising a person's limbs, providing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs to be exercised in order to operate the exercise equipment, increasing the level of functional electrical stimulation; decreasing a resistance provided by the exercise equipment or providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment as the person's muscles tire; finally completely removing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs and providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment; and continuing passive exercise of the person's limbs for a period of time greater than two minutes. Also provided are apparatuses to carry out the method.

An automated therapy table is disclosed. The automated therapy table may have various support portions capable of independent automatic actuation of a person's lower extremities through passive exercise. The automated therapy table allows a patient to perform leg elevation, approximation / decompression of the leg, internal / external rotation of the leg, ankle plantar flexion / dorsiflexion, and foot inversion / eversion movements. During each movement, the patient may be instructed to think in the direction of the movement. It has been found that doing so helps increase the healing effects. The disclosed table and method may be beneficial for patients after certain operations as well as for those suffering from various forms of debilitating illnesses, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, and Muscular Dystrophy.

The present disclosure is to destroy adipose tissue non-invasively by using focused ultrasound (FUS) and to increase the treatment efficiency by the synergy of the novel FUS and electrical stimulation. Lipid can be released from the destroyed adipocytes and stay in the interstitial fluid of undestroyed adipocytes. In the meanwhile or after the treatment of FUS, a passive exercise of muscle in thighs or other parts is performed by electrical stimulation to consume energy. Therefore, metabolism of the free lipid can be enhanced by supplying energy to the muscles. The ultrasound treatment of the present disclosure is able to increase the treatment area, and while in combination with electrical stimulation, it can efficiently remove lipids in the circulation.

An automated therapy table is disclosed. The automated therapy table may have various support portions capable of independent automatic actuation of a person's lower extremities through passive exercise. The automated therapy table allows a patient to perform leg elevation, approximation / decompression of the leg, internal / external rotation of the leg, ankle plantar flexion / dorsiflexion, and foot inversion / eversion movements. During each movement, the patient may be instructed to think in the direction of the movement. It has been found that doing so helps increase the healing effects. The disclosed table and method may be beneficial for patients after certain operations as well as for those suffering from various forms of debilitating illnesses, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, and Muscular Dystrophy.

The apparatus provides active and passive exercise to the hand and wrist of a patient afflicted with the symptoms of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The apparatus employs a hand or wrist glove to be worn by the patient's affected hand, the back of which is attached through an arm to a central post and the distal portion encasing the fingers, is attached to a vertical handle, which is rotated about the post, serving as the axis of rotation. A torque sensor is coupled to the motor shaft to measure the degree of patient input from a programmed speed and force rate by sensing the active input of the patient and reducing the motor input to the cycle allowing the patient to “drive” the exercise.

Disclosed is a muscle specific exercise device. The device may provide passive or active resistance training throughout an angular range of motion. The device may be low profile, and worn by a wearer, such as beneath conventional clothing. Exercise of selective joints or motion of the body may thereby be accomplished throughout the wearer's normal daily activities, without the need for access to conventional exercise equipment. Alternatively, the device may be worn as a supplemental training tool during conventional training techniques.

In a signal processor 18, a calculation unit 181 calculates a center point of a load applied to a left-footrest on the basis of partial loads detected by left foot load sensors 160 and 161, and calculates a center point of a load applied to a right-footrest on the basis of partial loads detected by right foot load sensors 170 and 171. A judgment unit 183 measures a deviation between each of the center points calculated by the calculation unit 181 and the center point indicated by ideal characteristic curve stored in a storage unit 182. The judgment unit 183 determines a normal exercise when the both deviations are less than a predetermined threshold (5% of a distance from an original point to the center point indicated by the ideal characteristic curve). The judgment unit 183 determines an abnormal exercise when at least one of the deviations is not less than the predetermined threshold. A control unit 180 counts the number of times the deviation is not less than the predetermined threshold. When the counted number of times is not less than a predetermined number during a predetermined time, the control unit 180 deactivates a drive device 50. Accordingly, an exerciser's muscle is trained effectively.

The invention provides a neurology department nursing bed having active and passive exercise functions. The neurology department nursing bed comprises a bed frame, support legs with universal wheels and a bed plate. The upper portion of the bed plate is a split type waist plate and the lower portion of the bed plate is a leg plate with a groove; the split type waist plate consists of a left turning plate and a right turning plate which can be turned inward; two sides of the split type waist plate are provided with upper limb coordination function exercise devices; the groove in the lower portion of the bed plate is provided with a lower limb active and passive function exercise device; the lower limb active and passive function exercise device consists of a box body fixedly connected to the bed frame and an active and passive pedaling device received in the box body. Compared with the conventional nursing beds, the neurology department nursing bed fulfils a body part side turning function, is equipped with the upper limb coordination function exercise devices and the lower limb active and passive function exercise device and is conducive to the progressive rehabilitation of generalized muscle functions of patients with neurological diseases.

The invention discloses a nursing bed with an active and passive exercise function and for the neurology department. The nursing bed comprises a bed board, the lower surface of the bed board is provided with support legs, the lower surface of each support leg is provided with a non-slip pad, and the left end of the upper surface of the bed board is provided with a cushion; two symmetrical slidinggrooves are formed in the right end of the upper surface of the bed board, a leg exercise device is arranged at the upper surface, corresponding to each sliding groove, of the bed board, the side surface of a first retractable rod of each leg exercise device is provided with a binding device, and a limiting device is arranged at the right side surface, corresponding to a foot pedal, of each leg exercise device, of the bed board. According to the nursing bed with the active and passive exercise function and for the neurology department, patients can be exercised through the leg exercise devicesand arm exercise devices on the surface of the bed board without transferring the patients, and the workload of medical staff can be reduced; an auxiliary exercise device and an auxiliary support device can assist the patients in exercise, the patients can conveniently recover as early as possible, and the nursing bed is easy to operate and convenient to use.

Operation time interval measurement means 28 of a passive exercise machine 1 measures the operation time interval and stores the measurement result of the operation time interval in association with the user identifiers in a machine operation table TB2. A server 2 includes an exercise history table TB12 that associates and stores the user identifiers and the measurement data on the operation time interval received by external communication means 41 from the passive exercise machine 1 via a network, operation time interval-to-exercise point conversion means 46 for determining exercise points that are obtained by quantifying the exercise amount of each user from the operation time interval of the user stored in the operation history table TB12 and storing the determined exercise points in the exercise history table TB12, and machine operation pattern determination means 47 for determining a machine operation pattern number indicating an operation state of the passive exercise machine 1 that is being used by the user when a cumulative total number of exercise points per user that has been stored in the exercise history table TB12 exceeds a predetermined threshold level. The server 2 transmits the determined machine operation pattern number from the external communication means 41 to the passive exercise machine 1.

Exercise apparatus is configured to cause a human body to exercise by adding an external force generated through a drive means to the human body to cause the human body to exert a force counteracting the external force. The apparatus includes: a timer means 21 for measuring the time, which the drive means operated, as exercise time; a storage means 6 for storing the measured exercise time together with time and date; and an arithmetic control means 2 for indicating accumulated exercise time evaluated from the stored exercise time to a user through an indication means 4. The continuity of exercise can be enhanced and the calculated exercise can be easily practiced.

A passive exercise bed is disclosed. The passive exercise bed of the present invention comprises a main body, a back fixing unit, a head fixing unit, two arm fixing units, a hip unit, a plurality of extendable units, a plurality of leg fixing units and a control unit. Several driving units are disposed inside the main body and may be activated through the control unit to move or drive the head fixing unit, two arm fixing units, hip unit and extendable units. Therefore, the passive exercise bed of the present invention may be used to stretch out our waist, leg joints, upper body, shoulders, arm joints, elbow joints, wrist joints, the two sides of waist and back as well as hip joints.

The invention discloses an upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device driven by a dielectric EAP (Electroactive Polymer) and a method thereof, which relate to a medical rehabilitation appliance. The upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device comprises a rocker, a cross hinge, a driver, a fixing rod, a connecting ring, a bracket and a base. The method comprises two exercise modes: in a passive exercise mode, changing an actual output moment of a driver set by changing voltage applied to the driver and an applying sequence in order to realize the rotation of the rocker, thereby driving the upper limbs of a patient to move; and in an active exercise mode, changing the actual output moment of the driver set by changing the voltage applied to the driver and the applying sequence, using the actual output moment as a damping moment, and overcoming the damping moment by moving the upper limbs of the patient in order to reversely rotate the rocker. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, convenient use, small size, low machining accuracy requirement and low cost; the characteristics of the dielectric EAP are similar to the characteristics of human muscle, and the flexible driving characteristic of the dielectric EAP increases the safety and the comfort of a rehabilitation exercise process.

This aims to provide a passive exercise machine which does not give different depressing feelings of sole rests even to the users having different body structures but can retain a fixed using feeling. The passive exercise machine (1) comprises a seat (2) for seating the hip of a user (M), right and left footrests (3) to be stepped by the right and left soles of the user (M) seated on the seat (2), and a seat driving unit (50) for displacing the position of the seat (2) so that the load balance of the user (M) on the seat (2) and the footrests (3) may be changed to change the dead weight to act on the legs. The footrests (3) include sole rests (4) made vertically movable while bearing the soles, elastic means (6) for biasing the sole rests (4) upward, and bias adjusting means (7) for making the modulus of elasticity of the elastic means (6) adjustable.

The invention provides a self-rehabilitation training instrument for shoulder joints. The self-rehabilitation training instrument for the shoulder joints comprises a base, a seat, a fork-shaped or U-shaped suspension girder, a square column and shoulder joint rehabilitation exercise mechanisms, wherein the height of the fork-shaped or U-shaped suspension girder is adjustable; the active exercise of one side of each big arm of a patient and the passive exercise of the other side of each big arm are realized by adopting gear drive and belt drive on the rehabilitation exercise mechanisms; when the big arm at one side of the patient vertically swings, through the gear drive and the belt drive, vertical swing directions of the big arms at both sides of the patient are consistent; when the big arm at one side of the patient horizontally swings, through the gear drive and the belt drive, horizontal swing directions of the big arms at both sides of the patient are opposite, and an outside power source does not need to provide power, so that the rehabilitation exercise of the big arm at one side of the patient is safer and more reliable.

The invention discloses an intelligent recovery exercising device and exercising method for upper and lower limbs of a patient. The device comprises a frame, wherein a first slide bar, a second slide bar and a third slide bar are arranged on the upper portion of the frame, an upper limb initiative exercise mechanism is arranged on the first slide bar, and the upper limb initiative exercise mechanism comprises a first elastic strap and rings; a first lower limb passive exercise mechanism is arranged on the second slide bar, and the first lower limb passive exercise mechanism comprises a first motor, a first fixed pulley, a first bandage and a first hauling cable; a second lower limb initiative exercise mechanism and a second lower limb passive exercise mechanism are arranged on the third slide bar, and the second lower limb initiative exercise mechanism comprises a second elastic strap and a second bandage; the second lower limb passive exercise mechanism comprises a second motor, a second fixed pulley, a third bandage and a second hauling cable. According to the intelligent recovery exercising device, the initiative and passive recovery exercise for the upper and lower limbs of the patient can be achieved, and according to patients with different physical conditions, the exercise frequency, range and intensity in passive exercise of patients can be controlled by selecting appropriate exercise modes.

A passive exercise apparatus in this invention comprises a base, a seat, a driving unit, and a pair of footrests. The seat is disposed on the base. The driving unit is configured to reciprocate the seat past its neutral position relative to the base. A pair of the footrests is arranged on the base at a front of the seat and is spaced from the seat by a predetermined distance. The feature of the invention resides in that the each of the footrests has a top face for contact with a user's foot. Each of the footrest is configured to move the top face between a raised position and a lowered position. The top face is elastically urged toward the raised position.

The invention provides a tail-suspended rat positioning device, which comprises a tail suspending device, a rat fixing box, a trunk positioning device and an angle control device, wherein the rat fixing box is used for accommodating the head and the trunk part of a rat; the trunk positioning device is used for fixing the trunk of the rat; and the angle control device is used for controlling an angle between the rat fixing box and a base of the tail-suspended rat positioning device. The invention also provides an active / passive exercise training device for the tail-suspended rat, which comprises a rat hind limb exercise device, a track control device, an active exercise training device and a passive exercise training device, wherein the rat hind limb exercise device is used for performing active or passive exercise training on the hind limbs of the rat; the track control device is used for limiting the motion range of the hind limbs of the rat; the active exercise training device is used for performing active exercise training on the hind limbs of the rat; and the passive exercise training device is used for performing passive exercise training on the hind limbs of the rat. The devices can keep the tail suspending angle of the rat unchangeable, namely keep a simulated weightless state during exercise training, and can control the active / passive training for the rat to perform quantitative training.

A passive exercise apparatus for use in an erect, non-recumbent seating position that provides an unstable platform capable of encouraging an omni-directional involuntary rocking motion that will result in the involuntary contractions of muscles involved in maintaining muscle tone and promoting proper posture (viz., the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus muscles, external oblique muscles, and other muscles in the abdominal, lumbar / sacral, and pelvic regions) in order to counterbalance the rocking forces. The purpose of the device is to provide continuing involuntary contractions of these muscle groups (a recognized form of EXERSITTING, which is the combined execution of concentric and isometric muscle exertion and contractions performed while sitting on the apparatus of the present invention in order to help maintain muscle tone and encourage good seated posture.

The present invention provides an active and passive exercise training equipment comprising a swinging device, a supporting device, and a front supporting device. The swinging device comprises a seat cushion with moving function for a user to sit. The supporting device comprises a telescopic rack and a top rack for the user to grip. The top rack is set on the telescopic rack for being located at different heights. The front supporting device comprises a front telescopic rack and a front grip for the user to bend forward to grip. The grip is set on the front telescopic rack for being located at different horizontal distances and vertical heights. The height and the distance can be adjusted according to the stature or requirement of the user so that the user can train his muscular strength efficiently and also make his body to achieve a relaxed state.

A passive exercise assisting device comprises a left foot support, a right foot support, and a driving unit. The left foot support and the right foot support are configured to bear a left foot and a right foot of a user respectively. The driving unit is configured to move the left foot support and the right foot support so as to give motions to the left foot support and the right foot support in relation with each other. The driving unit comprises at least one of a horizontal motion applying mechanism and a rotation motion applying mechanism. The horizontal motion applying mechanism is configured move the left foot support and the right foot support laterally to the left foot support and the right foot support. The rotation motion applying mechanism is configured rotate the left foot support and the right foot support about horizontal axes to the left foot support and the right foot support. The passive exercise assisting device further comprises a vertical motion applying mechanism being configured to move the left foot support and the right foot support vertically to the left foot support and the right foot support.

Disclosed is a standing-position type passive exercise machine comprising a left foot rest, a right foot rest and a drive device. The left foot rest and the right foot rest are provided for supporting the left and right feet of a user, respectively. The drive device is constituted to move the left foot rest and the right foot rest associatively. The standing-position type passive exercise machine is characterized by further comprising either a horizontal exercise mechanism constituted to apply horizontal motions to the left foot rest and the right foot rest or a turning mechanism constituted to apply rotations on an axis along a horizontal direction to the same. The passive exercise machine further comprises a vertical motion mechanism for moving the left foot rest and the right foot rest individually in the vertical directions in accordance with the horizontal motions or the rotations.

Passive exercise equipment used in a standing position includes a left foot base and a right foot base on which left and right feet of a user in a standing position can be rested, respectively, and the left foot base and the right foot base moves on at least one plane surface through a drive unit. The left foot base, the right foot base and the drive unit are mounted on a housing. A range in which distance in a right and left direction between right and left ankle joints is smaller or larger than distance between right and left hip joints is included in moving ranges of the left foot base and the right foot base.

The invention relates to an electrically powered wheelchair device with a rehabilitation mechanical arm, which belongs to the technical field of rehabilitation engineering. The electrically powered wheelchair device with a rehabilitation mechanical arm comprises an electrically powered wheelchair, a control and drive mechanism, an installing frame and a mechanical arm, wherein the installing frame is arranged at the rear part of the electrically powered wheelchair, the mechanical arm is connected with the installing frame, the control and drive mechanism is arranged at the bottom of the electrically powered wheelchair and is respectively connected with the electrically powered wheelchair, the installing frame and the mechanical arm to output control and drive signals. Under a passive exercise mode, an electric motor is used for outputting a driving moment to drive affected limbs of a patient to simulate and complete daily actions, and the electrically powered wheelchair device is mainly used for a beginning rehabilitation period of the patient; under an active exercise mode, the patient depends on self power to realize joint motions of upper limbs, the mechanical arm is used for monitoring the motion parameters of upper limbs in accompany motion to play a protecting function for the patient, and the electrically powered wheelchair device is mainly used for a later period of the rehabilitation exercise; under an assistant exercise mode, the electrically powered wheelchair device can be used for analyzing patient motion intention by analyzing the actions of the affected limbs, and the mechanical arm is used for realizing the motion of in an intention direction and assisting the patient to complete relative exercise actions.

The invention discloses a comprehensive finger exercising device which belongs to the field of medical rehabilitation training devices. The comprehensive finger exercising device includes five holdingand loosening exercising main bodies, four opening and closing exercising main bodies, a control mechanism and a wristlet; each of the holding and loosening exercising main bodies includes an elasticsleeve for a fingertip, an elastic sleeve for a finger root and a plurality of sections of connecting plates connected between the two elastic sleeves; two adjacent single plates are hinged, and twomicro magnetic sheets with repulsive magnetism are arranged between every two adjacent single plates; each of the opening and closing exercising main bodies includes a clamping plate fixedly connectedwith a driven wheel and a first rotating cylinder coaxially connected with the bottom of the driven wheel; and the control mechanism includes a fixed plate, a sliding block, a guide plate and a pre-tightened spring, each of the holding and loosening exercising main bodies is connected with a tightening rope fixedly connected with the sliding block, and the tightening ropes corresponding to the opening and closing exercising main bodies are closely wound around one side of the corresponding first rotating cylinders. By using the device, holding and loosening exercise and opening and closing exercise of fingers can be achieved at the same time, the device has a passive exercise mode and an autonomous exercise mode, and the exercise intensity of the two exercise modes can be adjusted.

The invention discloses a massage chair for leg rehabilitation training, comprising a massage chair device 1, a leg rehabilitation train device and a mounting bottom plate. That massage chair device 1and the leg rehabilitation training device are fixed on the mounting bottom plate by fastening screws. The massage chair device and the leg training device can easily and comfortably complete the rehabilitation training under the cooperation work of the massage chair device and the leg training device, and can choose active or passive exercise. In the active exercise, the brake can be adjusted according to its own situation to choose the size of the resistance it can bear, in the passive exercise, the frequency and speed of the step motor can be adjusted to choose the treadmill movement, in various modes, the effective and comfortable rehabilitation training can be carried out step by step according to their own needs.

This invention has an object to provide a passive exercise apparatus which is driven to help user to stretch and contract various muscles of his / her feet by a driving force generated at a driving unit while not lowering positive effects in his / her exercise. This passive exercise apparatus in the present invention comprises a left foot support 2a, a right foot support 2b, a driving unit 3, and a motion pattern modifying means 6. The left foot support and the right foot support are provided to support user's left foot and right foot respectively. The driving unit is configured to give a reciprocatory motion along a predetermined path to each of the left foot support and the right foot support according to a predetermined motion pattern defined by frequency, phase, and amplitude of the reciprocatory motion. The motion pattern modifying means is configured to modify at least one of the frequency, the phase, and the amplitude. The motion pattern modifying means is configured also to modify the motion pattern in accordance with inputs at a motion pattern setting unit 7.

A drive device has a motor for generating a drive force, a power transmission unit for transmitting the force generated by the motor to first and second foot support tables, thereby moving the foot support tables, and a control unit for controlling the motor. The power transmission unit is connected to an output shaft of the motor. The power transmission unit has a left foot reciprocation mechanism for reciprocating a left foot support table, a right foot reciprocation mechanism for reciprocating a right foot support table, and a power divergence unit for diverging the force of the motor into the reciprocation mechanisms and transmitting the force thereto. The power transmission unit alternately transmits the rotation force of the motor to the left and right foot support tables, thereby causing the left and right foot support tables to alternately move in a forward and backward direction in increments of one reciprocation.

The exercise system includes a passive exercise device (10), an acceleration sensor (20), a posture evaluation device (30), and an indication device (40). The passive exercise device (10) is configured to allow a user (80) to perform a passive exercise. The acceleration sensor (20) is attached around the lower back of user (80), and is configured to measure accelerations respectively in three axial directions and output the measured accelerations to the posture evaluation device (30). The posture evaluation device (30) is configured to calculate, on the basis of the acceleration, a physical amount for evaluation of a posture of the user (80) performing the passive exercise, and make an evaluation of the posture of the user (80) by comparing the calculated physical amount with a predetermined reference value. The posture evaluation device (30) is configured to prepare, on the basis of the resultant evaluation, an exercise instruction for remediation of the posture of the user (80). The indication device (40) is configured to indicate the exercise instruction to the user (80).