An exercise and communications system includes an interactive device, a remote device, and an external device, wherein the interactive device is configured to gather data relating to a user of the system and transmit the same to the remote device, and the remote device is configured to provide analyze the data and transmit a response to the interactive device, which in turn communicates the response to the user and additionally communication with an external device for retrieval of instructions, programs, and data, inter alia. An exercise and communications system facilitates communication between a plurality of users, each having an interactive device and a remote device.

The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.

An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.

A method and apparatus for controlling the flow of fluid in an injection well includes a main valve assembly having a valve and a retrievable nozzle selective lock assembly (RNSLA). The RNSLA is operable when positioned within the valve body to open the valve when fluid is pumped into the well and closes the valve when fluid flow is terminated. The RNSLA includes a replaceable orifice nozzle so that orifices of different dimensions may be used in conjunction with the valve assembly. In an alternate embodiment, the RNSLA includes a variable output nozzle assembly to maintain the valve in a protected open position without chattering over a wide range of flow rates.

Example embodiments may relate to a system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media configured for monitoring a user performing an athletic movement and/or exercise and generating a combinatory fitness athleticism score. The score may comprise a fitness sub-score and a fitness sub-score. The athletic movement may comprise a plurality of drills configured to test a plurality of fitness attributes and/or a plurality of athleticism attributes of the user. At least one of the plurality of fitness attributes may be selected from the group consisting of: endurance, flexibility, strength and combinations thereof; and at least one of the plurality of athleticism attributes may be selected from the group consisting of: speed, agility, reaction, power, balance, and combinations thereof.

The invention provides a method, a system and a computer program product to adjust an overall duration of a physical activity of a biological object. The physical activity is evaluated based on a physical activity parameter. The invention includes receiving: a target information (S1) corresponding to the physical activity parameter; the overall duration (S2) being a sum of a plurality of distributed time intervals; and a physical activity parameter information of the biological object. The physical activity parameter information is received (S4) for each distributed time interval. Thereafter, the corresponding distributed time interval is modified (S5) based on the received physical activity parameter information and the target information. Subsequently, a new overall duration (S8) of the physical activity is determined based on the modified distributed time interval and the received overall duration.

The present invention relates to methods and devices for the personalization of thermal treatment protocols. In particular, standard thermal treatment protocols are adapted and personalized based on individual-specific information, allowing more effective treatment protocols. Also systems for automated planning of the thermal treatment of an individual or a part thereof with individual-specific consideration are provided.

The invention describes a method for identifying alterations in a musculoskeletal system of a subject, wherein the method comprises the steps of associating, with the subject, detecting means capable of detecting physical quantities representative of a state of the subject, detecting the physical quantities through the detecting means, identifying a biomechanical model for the subject, determining combined movements of muscles and bones as a function of said physical quantities detected and of said identified biomechanical model, converting the combined movements into a plurality of movement steps of segments and joints, computing parameters representative of the alterations, comparing the parameters computed with predefined reference values representative of alteration thresholds in the musculoskeletal system, identifying the alterations as a function of a failed matching between the computed parameters and the predefined reference values, and determining the belonging of this correspondence to one or more groups of musculoskeletal pathologies as a function of said identified alteration.

The invention further comprises a system for identifying alterations in a musculoskeletal system of a subject.

A differential diagnosis apparatus is described, which is adapted for medical applications in order to determine an optimal sequence of diagnostic tests for identifying a pathology by adopting diagnostic appropriateness criteria, comprising: a first updatable database containing patients' data; a second relational database containing identification data of pathologies, symptoms, clinical signs, identification data of diagnostic tests, and data relating to the appropriateness parameters of said diagnostic tests for defining a list of diagnostic hypotheses (pathologies); means adapted to determine said optimal sequence of diagnostic tests for identifying a pathology, said means comprising an inferential computation engine, which determine for each diagnostic hypothesis (pathology), based on data contained in said first and second databases, said optimal sequence of diagnostic tests with associated indices of appropriateness and probability that a patient is suffering from that pathology.

The invention relates to a computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining a mapping of medical image content into a reference system, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, steps of: a) acquiring, at the processor, medical image data describing a digital medical image of an anatomical structure of a patient's body; b) acquiring, at the processor, image attribute data describing attribute information associated with the medical image data, the attribute information including an indication of an initial reference system in which spatial relationships of the digital medical image are defined; c) acquiring, at the processor, reference system transformation data describing a spatial relationship (REG) between the initial reference system and a second reference system which is different from the initial reference system; d) determining, by the processor and based on the medical image data and the reference system transformation data, transformed image data describing a representation of the digital medical image in the second reference system.