Baseline Attenuated Muscle Method for Pathological Strength
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for strengthening pathological muscles are ineffective as they exacerbate symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and weakness, leading to reduced tolerance and compliance during exercises, which hinders successful rehabilitation.
Innovation Solution
The BAM Method, a series of adaptive modifications to therapeutic exercises, including adjusting intensity, range of motion, sets and repetitions, speed, position, and exercise mode, to minimize symptoms and progressively strengthen pathological muscles without exacerbating conditions, allowing for a gradual transition to baseline muscle strengthening.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional muscle strengthening methods are applied to pathological muscles, then muscle strength may be improved, but symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and weakness are exacerbated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by systematically modifying multiple exercise parameters including intensity (weight), range of motion, repetitions, speed, and position to find optimal settings that strengthen pathological muscles without exacerbating symptoms. This involves adjusting these parameters in a structured sequence to achieve symptom-free strengthening.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by making the exercise prescription adaptive and modifiable in real-time based on patient response. The eight-step process allows dynamic adjustment of exercise parameters during treatment, transitioning from conservative settings to more challenging ones as tolerance improves, thereby optimizing both safety and effectiveness.
2Strength
If exercise intensity is increased to strengthen pathological muscles, then strengthening benefits may be maximized, but patient tolerance and compliance are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by first establishing a baseline exercise intensity that does not exacerbate symptoms, then progressively increasing intensity in controlled steps. This preliminary establishment of tolerance allows subsequent intensity increases to be better tolerated, improving both compliance and effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring patient symptoms and exercise tolerance, using this information to adjust exercise parameters. The systematic eight-step process incorporates real-time feedback to determine when to progress to the next intensity level or modify parameters, thereby maintaining patient compliance while maximizing strengthening benefits.
3Device complexity
If standard strengthening guidelines for physiological muscles are applied to pathological muscles, then exercise progression may be simplified, but symptom exacerbation occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the exercise progression into eight distinct, sequential steps, each focusing on specific parameter modifications. This segmentation transforms the complex task of pathological muscle strengthening into manageable, systematic stages, reducing prescription complexity while preventing symptom exacerbation through controlled progression.
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AI summary
A method of minimizing symptoms of injury, illness or disease during strengthening of a patient's pathological muscle by a sequence of prescribed activity adaptation steps. The method begins at the start of the strengthening exercise in response to exacerbation of symptoms exhibited by patient. The symptoms exhibited by the patient are minimized by adjusting an intensity of the strengthening exercise, limiting a range of motion of the strengthening exercise, dividing evenly a prescribed number of sets and repetitions corresponding to the strengthening exercise, dividing unevenly the prescribed number of sets and repetitions corresponding to the strengthening exercise, varying a speed at which the patient is subjected to the strengthening exercise, modifying a position of the patient for the strengthening exercise, matching a mode of the strengthening exercise to the modified patient's position, and switching between primary, secondary and tertiary actions of the patient's target muscle.