Hemodynamic Coordination via Real-Time Cardiac Timing Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods fail to consistently coordinate musculoskeletal and cardiovascular hemodynamics during rhythmic physical activities, leading to inefficient blood flow and perfusion, as they often result in unfavorable timing relationships between musculoskeletal and cardiac pumping cycles.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize sensors to detect cardiac and musculoskeletal cycle signals, providing real-time prompts to guide users in achieving a target timing relationship between musculoskeletal activity and cardiac cycles, thereby optimizing blood flow and perfusion through coordinated pumping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time sensing and feedback control systems are implemented to coordinate musculoskeletal and cardiovascular cycles, then hemodynamic coordination and physiological efficiency are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors cardiac cycle timing and musculoskeletal activity timing using sensors, compares actual timing relationships to target relationships, and provides real-time feedback control signals to adjust musculoskeletal activity. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures reliable hemodynamic coordination by dynamically correcting timing deviations during exercise
Solution Approach 2:
A timing relationship analysis module serves as an intermediary between the sensing system and the feedback control system. This module analyzes the detected timing relationships, determines whether coordination targets are met, and generates appropriate feedback signals, thereby mediating the complex interaction between cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and processing modules are added to accurately detect and coordinate timing relationships, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple sensing functions (cardiac cycle detection, musculoskeletal activity detection, timing relationship analysis) into an integrated feedback control system. By merging these functions into a unified system with shared processing and control architecture, the patent achieves precise timing relationship measurement without proportionally increasing overall system complexity
3Productivity
If the system provides continuous real-time feedback and adjustment, then physiological efficiency and perfusion are improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback control system operates in periodic cycles synchronized with the cardiac cycle and musculoskeletal activity cycles. Sensors detect timing relationships at regular intervals, the analysis module processes this periodic data, and feedback signals are provided at appropriate phases of the cycles. This periodic operation maintains physiological efficiency while minimizing continuous energy consumption
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AI summary
Described herein are systems and methods for favorably coordinating a timing relationship between a musculoskeletal activity cycle and a cardiac cycle of a user. A method may include repetitively detecting a signal that correlates to a blood volume in the user; determining an actual value of the signal that varies with the timing relationship; computing a trend of the actual value of the signal; and adjusting the movement guidance based on the trend of the actual value. A system may include a prompt device configured to provide recurrently a movement guidance to the user for guiding performance of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity; a sensor configured to provide a signal that correlates to a blood volume in the user; and a processor configured to determine an actual value of the signal that varies with the timing relationship and to adjust the movement guidance based on the trend of the actual value.