153 results about "Thoracic spine" patented technology

A body rest structure includes a torso support for supporting the torso of a human body in a prone, elevated position which serves to induce a mild stretch of the user's thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. The torso support includes an upper chest and shoulder support platform and a lumbar support platform. An open region extends longitudinally between the platforms to provide room for at least a portion of the weight of the chest below the shoulders to pull down on the body between the platforms. The support may include a rear supporting surface to provide lifting support from below the hips and abdomen of the body. A head support for supporting the head of the body in a downwardly facing position when the torso is supported by the torso support is also disclosed. The head support includes a front portion for providing lifting support to the forehead of the body, and parallel opposed side portions for supporting opposed sides of the face. Each side portion has an upper surface that slopes upwardly from the front portion of the head support to the associated distal end of the side portion.

A method is disclosed for the treatment of a thoracic region of a patient's body. Embodiments of the method comprise positioning an energy delivery portion of an electrosurgical device to face a segment of a thoracic vertebra at a distance from the segment; and cooling the energy delivery portion and delivering energy through the energy delivery portion.

A sacral support assembly for use with a seat is provided. The seat includes a seat frame. An adjustable sacral support assembly is connected to the seat frame. The sacral support assembly includes a sacral support member adapted to support the sacrum of a seated user even when an obstruction is located between the user and the sacral support assembly. A method is also provided for delivering primary support to a user's sacrum and sacral-pelvic anatomy and secondary support to the remaining regions of the spine and/or adjacent anatomy to reduce fatigue, increase comfort, structural balance, stability, and posture control for a user, and a system for adjusting and controlling the load distribution from the sacral anatomy to the spine and other anatomical structures adjacent to a user's sacrum, for example, the pelvis, lumbar, thoracic and cervical regions.

An advanced combat clothing system for military medics and medical professionals actively involved in the field of combat while providing acute emergency care for wounded soldiers. The Advanced Combat Uniform for Medics also referred to as the ACUM consists of a pair of trousers, a long sleeve shirt and a unique pocket receptacle invention which stabilizes the content within the pockets. The ACUM was invented to replace the use of roll-up bags and back packs used to carry the tools and supplies of the military medics during combat zone engagements.

The ACUM invention was strategically designed to disburse the weight of the medical gear over the entire body, therefore, decreasing the entire weight load from exerting pressure over the lumbar and thoracic spinal locations. Additionally, by disbursing the pay-load or weight over the entire body, the military medic will be able to maneuver and combat with more accuracy and precision.

The ACUM invention has a unique pull cord system in which the military medic can access lifesaving medicines and triage supplies at the pull of a cord. The ACUM can be made using any fabric including the digital camouflage material used and preferred by military personnel. The ACUM can hold over 100 required medical items while providing extremely fast easy access to the medical supplies carried by the military medics.

The ACUM invention was designed to systematically place all of the medical supplies carried by the military medic in strategic areas around the wearer's body. The ACUM can be made to fit any size, male or female. This combat uniform can be produced relatively quick and easy using a line production clothing protocol. Lumbar and spinal injury affects a large population of military personnel at one time or another, by disbursing the weight or load of the military medics gear; this will significantly reduce the risk of developing lumbar spinal disease in general.

The present invention is directed towards a travel pillow for sleeping in a vertical or near-vertical reclined position. When sleeping in these positions, gravity tends to pull the head forward of the shoulders causing it to droop. The current state of the art travel pillow does not provide a support means to counter this forward drooping tendency. Moreover, its rear support displaces the cervical spine forward, further increasing the tendency for the head to slump forward. The present invention holds a resting head in an upright and stable position to prevent forward head drooping and does so without forwardly displacing the cervical spine. The five novel elements of the present invention are integrally configured to maintain a healthy alignment between the occipital bone of the head, the cervical spine of the neck, and the thoracic spine of the upper back.

A portable harness that wraps around the rib cage and thoracic spine is disclosed. Unlike other harnesses, the present invention has an extension allowing it to be suspended above the user's ribcage to apply an upward pull. This suspension strap provides a distracting/unloading force on the lower back by holding the upper torso in place while the weight of a patient's lower body creates traction on the lumbar spine. The harness can be used with any chair back, including office chairs, or vehicle seats. This allows people with lower back pain to sit more comfortably while sitting in a regular chair, driving a car, or flying in a plane. This will decrease low back pain since sitting for long periods will no longer compress the lumbar spine, it will actually be therapeutic by allowing a person to sit in an unloaded position.

The invention discloses a multi-section adjustable traction bed, and belongs to the technical field of medical equipment. The traction bed comprises two parts, namely a traction physiotherapy device and a traction table, wherein a neuromuscular feedback function is added to the traction physiotherapy device; a therapist also can remind a patient of correctly adjusting and controlling the tension degree of the body by observing the change of a surface electromyogram signal in real time besides verbal communication with the patient, and can guide the patient to fully relax skeletal muscle before traction treatment, so that separation between vertebral bodies is further increased, and the traction effect is more obvious. A pelvic tilt part is arranged, so that asymmetry of the pelvis is solved. The angle parts of the arm and the chest are respectively adjusted in the traction table, so as to maintain a spine in the neutral position. A head support pad can be lifted to 35 degrees, so that the head support pad can more easily approach to thoracic vertebra and cervical vertebra. The head is in a comfortable position all the time when the patient lies in a prostrate or supine mode by the head support pad. A plurality of support sections are arranged on the traction table, so that the angle can be adjusted, and adjuvant therapy of manipulation cheirapsis also can be carried out when the patient is pulled.

Devices and methods of the present invention are directed to positioning a patient in a prone position that exposes the posterior thoracic lumbar spine during a surgical procedure, such as a laminectomy procedure. The device has at least three support members, with a first support member configured and adapted to support at least a portion of a patient's torso and the patient's hips; a second support member, generally contiguous with the first, configured and adapted to contact a patient's thighs and to position the patient's thighs in a desired angular position relative to the patient's hips and torso; and a third support member, generally contiguous with the second support member, adapted to support a patient's knees and lower legs and to position the patient's lower legs in a desired angular position relative to the patient's torso and thighs. A patient is positioned in the frame device prior to being anesthetized while the patient is lying supine and, during or following administration of anesthesia, the patient (mounted in the device) is rolled onto an operating table and positioned in a prone position. Operation on the posterior thorical-lumbar spine in this position is especially advantageous, and the spinal canal remains virtually bloodless, providing excellent visualization during the surgical procedure. When the surgery is finished, the process is reversed.

The invention discloses a posture correction device and a posture correction method. The posture correction device comprises an adsorption part and a mobile terminal, the adsorption part comprises a first elastic film, a second elastic film and a third elastic film, strain gauge pressure sensors, processors and wireless communication modules are attached to the first elastic film, the second elastic film and the third elastic film, the strain gauge pressure sensors are connected with the processors, and the processors are connected with the wireless communication modules; the first elastic film is attached to the center of the cervical vertebra of the human skin surface, the second elastic film is attached to the center of the thoracic vertebra of the human skin surface, and the third elastic film is attached to the center of the lumbar vertebra of the human skin surface. The strain gauge pressure sensor corresponding to each elastic membrane uploads a human spinal curvature angle value acquired by the strain gauge pressure sensor to the mobile terminal through the wireless communication module; and the mobile terminal inputs the acquired human spinal curvature angle value into a pre-trained classification model, and outputs a human spinal posture correction prompt instruction.

A surgical support system including a positioning pillow to support a patient on an operating table. An example embodiment of the positioning pillow includes a head supporting surface and a bottom surface disposed opposite to the head supporting surface, the head supporting surface being angled relative to the bottom surface to align the patient's thoracic and cervical spine at a predetermined angle with respect to the operating table when the patient's head is positioned on the head supporting surface, including one or more inclined removable members to adjust the height and angle of the head supporting surface relative to the bottom surface.

The invention relates to a spinal arc adjustment, allowing a patient to use at home, to massage the spine and to correct the spinal arc. According to the technical scheme of solution, the spinal arc adjustment is characterized in that three carrier plates are slidably connected onto a base transversely side by side from top to bottom; the three carrier plates include a cervical carrier plate, a thoracic carrier plate and a lumbar carrier plate from right to left; the lower end of each carrier plate is provided with a left-right adjustment and a lifting device both fixedly connected to the base; each lifting device is connected with a lifting main gear rotationally connected to the base; a leg fixator is fixedly connected to the rightmost end of the base. The spinal arc adjustment is convenient and simple to operate and easy to use, can provide good corrective preventive effect for a user with early spinal diseases, and is very practical.

The present disclosure relates to the field of spine disc implants. Exemplary embodiments of the disclosed spinal disc implants advantageously and ultimately provide fusion with the body of the vertebra and stabilization of the spine in an anatomically correct position, e.g., in cervical, thoracic and/or lumbar regions. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to a disc implant that addresses and overcomes the shortcomings of the prior implants by providing first and second inter-vertebral elements that are movably coupled relative to each other and are adapted to permit bone in-growth over time. Thus, the disclosed spinal disc implants permit relative movement between the first and second inter-vertebral elements upon implantation and after the patient is mobilized—thereby permitting the implant to assume a desired position based on the specific and unique spinal balance of the patient in an initial post-implantation period—but then the first and second inter-vertebral elements become fixed relative to each other (i.e., fused). The present disclosure also provides advantageous instrumentation and associated methods for positioning a spine disc implant in a desired anatomical location.

A toy for teaching sign language includes a body with a thoracic portion and a lower limb portion that are movable between rotated and stationary positions. The present invention further includes metacarpals provided with a wire frame passing therethrough, which makes them flexible for defining various sign language movements. The present invention further includes a facial section with an oral section that is adaptable to provide various expressions via a wire frame. The facial section further includes eyebrow sections that are adaptable to a corresponding position as the oral section changes shape. The present invention may further include a simulated hearing aid and fastener for removably affixing the hearing aid to the facial section.

A shoulder strap that has a strap member and a pad member and the pad member has a front side and a back side. The oblong shoulder pad shape allows for contour at the shoulder and neck putting the load to the left and right of the shoulder and reducing the pressure on the vertebra and cervical thoracic spinal nerves of the wearer's neck. The front side of the pad member has Non-Slip Traction Nibs (NSTNs) molded in a pattern so the traction nibs are facing outward from the surface at the outer shoulder. The back side of the pad member has a smooth or non-skid abrasive surface with inward X perspiration grooves (2-IPG) at a section by the side of the neck.

The invention discloses a rehabilitation method for twisting, vibrating and pulling spinal columns, and a spinal exercise rehabilitation bed. The spinal disease physiotherapy method combined with an exercise mode of twisting, vibrating and pulling spinal columns can be firstly provided. When the method is implemented, a motor drives different parts of a bed body to move through the up pulling anddown pressing of a power switching handle; the motor drives a swinging massage bed surface and a cervical massage pillow rack to move during up pulling, people can move thoracic vertebra, cervical vertebra and back muscles by lying on the bed; the motor drives a rear bed surface to move during the down pressing, the moving of the vibration and side swinging of the rear bed surface can be switchedthrough the vertical and horizontal placing of a side swinging bed surface locking rack, and the people can twist and vibrate lumbar vertebra, moving buttocks, lower bodies and even whole body musclesby lying on the bed; through the fixing of a human body with binding bands, the spinal columns of the human body can be pulled by combining the pulling of the human body on the bed through a pullingtelescoping push rod; and through the combination of multiple spinal movement modes, the spinal columns and the nerves, ligaments and muscles around the spinal columns can be gradually relaxed to rehabilitate, so that the purpose of physiotherapy for spinal diseases can be achieved.

The invention discloses an orthopedic spine multidirectional correction device and a correction method thereof. The device comprises a device seat plate and a backrest plate, a sponge cushion is arranged on the upper surface of the device seat plate, armrests are fixedly installed on the two sides of the upper end of the device seat plate, a rectangular groove is formed in the back face of the backrest plate, and a detachable overhaul plate is arranged on the opening side of the rectangular groove. A first rectangular through hole is formed in the surface of the detachable overhaul plate in a penetrating mode, fixing plates are fixedly connected to the upper end and the lower end of the outer side of the rectangular groove correspondingly, a sliding rod is arranged between the two fixing plates in a penetrating mode, and detachable limiting blocks are arranged at the two ends of the sliding rod correspondingly. According to the orthopedic spine multidirectional correction device for the orthopedics department, the spine deformation condition of a patient is corrected through a cervical vertebra correction plate, a thoracic vertebra correction plate, a lumbar vertebra correction plate and a sacral vertebrae correction plate, and the scoliosis condition of the patient is corrected through reciprocating pushing of a cervical vertebra correction push block, a thoracic vertebra correction push block, a lumbar vertebra correction push block and a sacral vertebrae correction push block; and therefore, multi-directional correction of the spine is realized at the same time.