A guide device providing a dimensional and ornamental guide that, engaging a leg of an ambulatory assist device used by a person, provides walking assistance, comprising a boot leg or sleeve for joining about a portion of the leg of the ambulatory assist device and receiving a resilient body axially for dimensional extents and receiving a guide member having a bottom glide surface for contact with a floor surface. A method of facilitating guidance of an ambulatory assist device is disclosed.

An electronic walking assistance device, has a cane portion, having surfaces for holding against arms and/or hands of a user; and an electromotive device, which automatically creates motion to follow a movement of the user, enabling walking assistance without lifting the handle portion or the electromotive device off the ground.

An apparatus for stimulating activity awareness to engage abdominal muscles has a belt and buckle assembly designed to circumscribe a user's waist and fasten at the side. A front clutch with one or more containment members is horizontally coupled to an outside face of a vertically widened portion of the belt, facing outward. A back pouch is slidably coupled to the belt, a sealable back pouch containment member is designed to fold over the belt to be interior to an inside face of the belt, disposed against the user's lower back, and is able to contain cold/heat packs. One or more rechargeable batteries are disposed within the front clutch. A plurality of electrodes with accelerometers are disposed on an inside face of the vertically widened belt portion designed to vibrate upon detecting abdominal muscle movement, or lack of movement. A GPS and safety alert tracker may be included.

A handheld tool includes a handle; an implement mount configured to detachably accept and to rigidly hold a user-assistive implement; an actuator assembly mounted to the handle to physically manipulate the implement mount relative to the handle; a first sensor disposed to sense an orientation of the handle; a second sensor disposed to sense an orientation of the user-assistive implement; a controller disposed in or on the handle and coupled to the actuator assembly and the first and second sensors; and memory coupled to the controller. The memory stores instructions for identifying a type of the user-assistive implement attached to the implement mount, selecting a behavior routine based upon the type of the user-assistive implement identified, and manipulating the user-assistive implement relative to the handle according to the behavior routine to aid performance of a task with the handheld tool.

Disclosed is a rehabilitation robot training system for monitoring and suppressing the compensatory movement of a hemiplegic upper limb. The system includes an upper computer control center, an interaction display screen, a force feedback glove, a position tracker, upper limb rehabilitation robot tail end connectors, an upper limb rehabilitation robot, a base and a pressure cushion. One upper limb rehabilitation robot tail end connector is mounted on a tail end of each of two robotic arms of the upper limb rehabilitation robot, and the upper limb rehabilitation robot tail end connectors are respectively worn on an upper arm and a forearm of a patient to drive an arm to move; the upper computer control center stores and processes data, collected by the position tracker, the force feedback glove and the pressure cushion in real time, of the patient, and monitors and analyses whether the patient does a compensatory gesture.

In a state where a drive unit is located on a lateral side of a joint(s) of a wearer wearing clothes and a communication unit and a frame unit are fixed and retained corresponding to the wearer's first and second body sites, respectively, a driving torque of an actuator according to movements of the wearer's joint is transmitted as an assist force to the first and second body sites without giving any physical burdens or hindrances in daily life to the wearer.

The current invention relates to a compression device wearable by a user for applying compression on a left lower limb and a right lower limb of the user. The compression device includes a left massager sleeve, a right massager sleeve, a computing device, a left air pressure hose, and a right air pressure hose. The left massager sleeve and the right massager sleeve are adapted to surround and secure the left lower limb, and the right lower limb respectively. The computing device generates air pressure. The computing device includes a control panel to control the flow of the air pressure in the left massager sleeve and the right massager sleeve. The computing device includes a battery to provide power supply to the control panel. The left air pressure hose supplies air pressure to the left massager sleeve. The right air pressure hose supplies air pressure to the right massager sleeve.

A handheld electro-mechanical walking aid operably configured to detect objects or obstacles in an ambient environment and guide the user away from the detected obstacles and comprising a handle member for grasping, an electronic motor assembly, a cantilevered guide arm member operably coupled to at least one electronic motor and having an arm weight and a concentrated weight of at least approximately 0.2 lbs, at least one of a distance sensor and a camera operably configured to detect objects spatially displaced from a second free end of the arm member, and an electronic controller operably configured to receive detection of the objects spatially displaced from the second free end and cause selective rotation of the arm member in a direction away from the detected objects to generate a deviation angle θ, thereby causing an impetus to the user holding the handle member through a torque generated by the arm weight.

A device is provided for controlling the nitric oxide levels within the lungs of a subject. The device comprises a detector for detecting the respiration cycle of the subject and a stimulator for applying an acoustic or vibratory stimulus to the subject. The stimulator is controlled in dependence on the detected respiration cycle. In particular, acoustic stimulation may be provided at the onset of inspiration. In this way, the nitric oxide flow can be controlled in a way to ensure that the paranasal nitric oxide is nearly fully inspired. This provides a higher nitric oxide concentration in the lung/alveoli.

A trigger point treatment system for treating a patient, includes a cart, including a display; a trigger point scanning device with a scanning probe, and a trigger point massage therapy device, including a pressure point tip, a pressure sensor component, and an actual pressure indicator. A method of trigger point treatment includes scanning for myofascial trigger points, including locating, mapping, and marking trigger points; measuring a pressure pain threshold; applying a massage treatment; and optionally applying an injection treatment.