Adjustable Atlas Bar Spinal Alignment Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to effectively measure and provide continuous feedback on spinal misalignment, nor do they adapt to changing spinal alignment over time, leading to inadequate correction and maintenance of optimal spinal posture.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable measuring and spinal alignment device comprising an Atlas bar and an Atlas sheath, which can be adjusted to fit the user's spine, combined with a torso harness and adjustable pads, provides continuous feedback and adapts as the user's spinal alignment improves.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed spinal alignment device is used, then initial spinal posture is corrected, but it cannot adapt to changing spinal alignment over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the spinal alignment device adjustable rather than fixed. The bar can be repositioned along the sheath to different locations, allowing the device to adapt to changing spinal alignment over time. This transforms a static device into a dynamic one that can respond to improvements in the user's posture, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity.
2Measurement precision
If continuous feedback on spinal misalignment is provided, then postural awareness is improved, but measurement precision is insufficient with existing solutions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous feedback by incorporating sensors that detect the position of the bar within the sheath and provide real-time information about spinal alignment to the user. This feedback mechanism enables precise measurement of spinal misalignment and guides postural corrections, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and detection complexity by using straightforward positional sensing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If an adjustable bar within a sheath is used, then adaptability to different spine lengths is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the nesting principle by placing a bar inside a sheath, where the bar can slide to different positions within the hollow sheath structure. This nested configuration allows the device to accommodate different spine lengths and alignments while maintaining a compact, integrated form factor that minimizes overall device complexity despite the adjustable functionality.
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AI summary
Devices for and methods of measuring, enhancing, and facilitating optimal spinal alignment utilizing an Atlas bar with an Atlas pad inserted into an Atlas sheath, configured when worn by a user to rest on three distinct areas of the user's spine: (a) the Atlas pad at the center of the Atlas vertebra; (b) the Atlas sheath at the center of the thoracic region; and (c) a sacrum pad on the Atlas sheath at the center of the sacrum. Atlas pads may be removed and replaced as the user's spinal alignment improves. Devices may be held in place on the user's body with a torso harness, affixed in jackets or other wearable garments, or backpacks. In use, the Atlas bar and sheath are in simultaneous physical contact with three areas of the user's spine, providing tactile feedback to the user and creating proprioceptive awareness resulting in improving spinal alignment over time.