A telescopic assembly for supporting a patient's femur includes an elongate tubular base configured to be fixably attached to a table. The tubular base has a longitudinal axis. The telescopic assembly also includes an elongate extension member slidably disposed in the tubular base and configured to telescopically extend longitudinally from the tubular base. Further, the telescopic assembly includes a femur support member coupled to an end of the extension member and configured to be positioned below and support the femur of the patient. The femur support member is configured to move longitudinally with the extension member relative to the tubular base.

A method for determining a muscle fatigue of a muscle includes the step of electrostimulating the muscle at different frequencies, wherein the electrostimulation includes, at each frequency, a repetition of pulses during a period of time lower than 5 s. The method further includes the steps of determining forces developed by the muscle in response to the electrostimulations of step (i); and determining a muscle fatigue on basis of the determined forces.

A method for determining a muscle fatigue of a muscle includes the step of electrostimulating the muscle at a given electric charge at different frequencies. The method further includes the steps of determining forces developed by the muscle in response to the electrostimulations and determining a muscle fatigue on basis of the forces The steps are repeated a number of times with increasing electric charge, wherein the electric charge is increased by a charge step between two occurrences of the electrostimuation step.

The abnormality determination apparatus includes a movement quantity detection unit and an abnormality level determination unit. The movement quantity detection unit detects movement quantities of a plurality of parts of the monitored person. Restraint information is information indicating a restraint status of the monitored person. The abnormality level determination unit determines an abnormality level of the monitored person on the basis of the movement quantities of the plurality of parts detected by the movement quantity detection unit and the restraint information.

A force measurement system and a motion base used therein is disclosed herein. The force measurement system includes a force measurement assembly configured to receive a subject, a motion base for displacing the force measurement assembly, and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly and an actuation system of the motion base. The motion base includes a support structure; a displaceable carriage coupled to the force measurement assembly; and an actuation system, the actuation system including one or more actuators operatively coupling the displaceable carriage to the support structure, the one or more actuators configured to displace the displaceable carriage with the force measurement assembly relative to the support structure, the displaceable carriage being suspended below a portion of the support structure.

A system for use in positioning and restraining an equine hoof during imaging, with at least one panic-releasable connection. The system may comprise an equine boot and an interface plate attached to the underside thereof, a receiver plate attached to a limb placement region of an imaging apparatus, and a placement plate attached to the receiver plate. Further disclosed is use of one or more components apart from the whole system, and methods of use for positioning and restraining an equine hoof during imaging.

A spinal traction device may include a base frame, a waist bed part on the upper side of the base frame to be movable up and down, an upper body bed part connected to one side of the waist bed part, and a lower body bed part connected to the other side of the waist bed part. The upper body bed part and the lower body bed part may be rotated with respect to the waist bed part as the waist bed part is raised and lowered. The lower body bed part may include a first lower body bed member and a second lower body bed member, the second lower body bed member is horizontally movable in the longitudinal direction of the lower body bed portion with respect to the first lower body bed member and is horizontally movable or rotatable in the width direction.

A system comprising a scanning device is operable by a user to scan teeth of the user to acquire images of the teeth. The scanning device comprises a camera operable to acquire the images, a guide configured to orient the camera with respect to the teeth to facilitate acquisition of the images, and a server system configured to receive the images acquired by the scanning device and to develop a treatment plan for the user based on the received images.

A head coil assembly includes a housing with a lower portion, an upper portion, a left portion, and a right portion, wherein each portion includes two or more radio-frequency (RF) coils, wherein the portions are sized and shaped to adjustably conform to a curvature of the subject's head for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the subject's head placed inside the housing, wherein the portions are operable to transition from an open position where the portions are sufficiently apart from each other to a closed position where the portions are adjusted to tighten a wrap around the subject's head along the curvature, and wherein the two or more RF coils in each portion are disposed in such manner that when the portions are operated to transition from the open position to the closed position, the RF coils of each portion remain decoupled to each other even along edges of each portion.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying a health disorder based on a temperature asymmetry estimation. A system may include a thermal camera configured to detect thermal images of an inspected body part and a reference body part, which may be contralateral to the inspected body part. The system may further include an optical camera configured to detect optical images of the inspected body part and the reference body part. The system may further include a remote mobile device having a mobile processor programmed to control the thermal camera to detect the thermal images and the optical camera to detect the optical images. The system may further include remote server having a diagnostic processor programmed to determine that a functional disorder or inflammation of the inspected body part has occurred by analyzing the thermal images and the optical images.