Portable Hand Therapy Stations for Versatile Motor Rehabilitation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing rehabilitation technologies lack a portable and comprehensive system for effectively exercising and rehabilitating hand motor skills and functions, particularly for patients in need of physical therapy.
Innovation Solution
A portable hand therapy system with multiple stations on a substrate that includes features like a doorknob, elongated handle, slots, and graduated openings to facilitate exercises for hand motor skills, grip strength, and dexterity, allowing for various therapeutic activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a comprehensive hand therapy system is designed to include multiple exercise stations and features, then the therapeutic effectiveness and versatility are improved, but the device complexity and portability are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple hand therapy exercise stations (door locking/unlocking station, hand opening/closing station, fingertip gripping station, palmar gripping station, and elbow flexion/extension station) into a single integrated substrate structure. This merging approach allows comprehensive therapeutic coverage while maintaining a compact, portable form factor that can be easily transported and set up in various clinical settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The substrate serves as a universal platform that supports multiple different exercise stations and configurations. The system includes various mounting holes and attachment points that allow different therapy components to be universally mounted on the same base structure, enabling one device to perform multiple therapeutic functions for different hand and arm conditions.
2Weight of moving object
If multiple exercise stations are integrated on a single substrate, then the portability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hand therapy system employs a nested structure where multiple exercise stations and therapeutic components are integrated within a single substrate framework. Each exercise station is positioned on or within the substrate structure, creating a compact nested arrangement that minimizes overall device size and weight while maintaining full functionality of all exercise stations.
Data Source
AI summary
A hand therapy system includes a substrate having a front opening, a rear opening, and left side, right side, top, and bottom surfaces. Provided to the surfaces are a station configured to exercise an ability to lock and unlock a door, a station configured to exercise opening and/or closing of a hand, at least one station configured to exercise fingertip thumb-finger oppositional gripping and rotating as well as size discernment, at least one station configured to exercise palmar gripping, supination, and pronation, and at least one station configured to exercise fingertip thumb-finger oppositional gripping, elbow extension and flexion, and size discernment.