Modular Tissue Platform with Lockable Ring System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current physical therapy equipment is often bulky, non-versatile, and inefficient, limiting the ability of healthcare professionals to effectively isolate and manipulate muscle groups, leading to repetitive stress injuries and inadequate data collection for precise tissue configuration and deformation.
Innovation Solution
A modular, reconfigurable tissue configuration platform with a moveable and lockable ring system that allows for precise mechanical positioning and deformation of biological tissues using compression, tension, bending, torsion, and shear forces, enabling multiple tissue locations to be targeted simultaneously without direct practitioner contact, and integrating with data collection technology.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional physical therapy equipment is used, then muscle isolation and manipulation capability is limited, but equipment bulkiness and lack of versatility worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is divided into modular components including a base unit, multiple covering attachments (first covering attachment, second covering attachment), and various extension attachments. Each component can be independently configured and repositioned to target specific muscle groups, enabling versatile muscle isolation without requiring a single bulky device.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform serves multiple functions through its configurable architecture: it can isolate different muscle groups by adjusting covering attachment positions, apply various therapeutic forces (compression, tension, bending, torsion, shear), and accommodate different body regions simultaneously, replacing multiple specialized devices with one universal platform.
2Measurement precision
If precise tissue configuration is achieved through manual manipulation, then therapy effectiveness improves, but practitioner repetitive stress injuries increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform acts as an intermediary device between the practitioner and the patient's tissue. The practitioner controls the platform's mechanical components (covering attachments, extension attachments) which then apply precise therapeutic forces to the target tissue, eliminating the need for direct manual manipulation and reducing practitioner stress injuries while maintaining configuration precision.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual mechanical manipulation by the practitioner is replaced with a mechanical system comprising the platform, covering attachments, and extension attachments. This automated mechanical system delivers precise tissue configuration forces without requiring the practitioner to physically exert repeated stress on their own body.
3Productivity
If multiple tissue locations are targeted simultaneously, then therapy efficiency improves, but direct practitioner contact requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform extends the practitioner's capability into multiple spatial dimensions by allowing simultaneous positioning of covering attachments and extension attachments at different locations across the patient's body. This enables multi-point tissue manipulation concurrently, improving therapy efficiency without requiring the practitioner to maintain direct contact with multiple body parts simultaneously.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for tissue configuration includes a frame that comprises a planar surface comprising a platform defined by a left edge, a right edge, a head edge and a foot edge, and one or more covering attachments. Each covering attachment include a first region at which the covering attachment is coupled to the left edge and a second region of the covering attachment coupled to the right edge, further including a body portion that spans between the first region and the second region over the planar surface forming an opening between the body of the covering attachment and the planar surface. The body of at least some of the covering attachment includes a first side oriented towards the planar surface, the first side comprising one or more attachment points having one or more base units to which one or more extension attachments extending towards the planar surface are attachable.