A method with associated device for exercising core muscles of a patient who must maintain core strength or rebuild it from a very low level. The device has two handles separated by a transmission bar. A first handle is provided for the caregiver to hold, with both hands, and the opposing handle is provided for the patient to hold, again with both hands. The device enables the patient to pull herself from a supine position to a sitting position as the caregiver holds it stationery or, if the patient is lacking strength, to move the device slowly away from the patient. The caregiver can stand close to the bed corners and repeat the process to enable the patient to gain strength in the oblique muscles necessary to initiate rolling on the bed. The device, when used interactively with the patient, encourages the patient and provides feedback to the caregiver regarding the patient's fatigue level.

A massager includes a casing having an elongated slot on one lateral side, a motor housed in the casing, a leadscrew housed in the casing and extending along a long axis and coupled with an output end of the motor, a slide rail seat housed in the casing and threadedly coupled to the leadscrew, a massage head disposed outside the casing and connected to the slide rail seat via a connection seat extending through the elongated slot from inside the casing to outside of the casing. When in operation, the motor causes the leadscrew to rotate about the long axis to thereby drive the massage head to reciprocate linearly along the long axis relative to the casing.

An immersive stimulation system generates audio (such as music) and a vibration signal that causes a stimulation device to vibrate synchronously with the audio. The vibrations may be synchronized with respect to amplitude and frequency such that frequency components of the vibrations adapt in coordination with time-dependent frequency distributions of the audio. The immersive stimulation system may include a control device for generating the audio and vibration signals and a stimulation device that produces the vibrations based on the vibration signal. The stimulation device may include one or more voice coil transducers to produce the vibrations and a detachable vibratory unit that may have different form factors depending on the desired usage of the stimulation system.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a sexual stimulation device. The sexual stimulation device includes an accommodating element, a valve assembly and an actuation member. The accommodating element is configured for allowing insertion of male genitalia therein. The valve assembly includes at least a valve, a first channel and a second channel. The actuation member is configured to operate the valve to fluidically couple an external ambience to an inside or a surrounding of the accommodating element through the valve assembly. The actuation member is configured to operate the valve in the first mode to allow a first fluid flow through the first channel between the inside or the surrounding of the accommodating element and the external ambience, and operate the valve in the second mode to allow a second fluid flow through the second channel between the inside or the surrounding of the accommodating element and the external ambience.

Embodiments related to a haptic actuator for transmitting heat and/or mechanical vibrations to an adjacent surface are disclosed. The haptic actuator may include a heating membrane, one or more supports, and a body. The one or more supports may extend between the body and the heating membrane to physically separate the heating membrane from the body.

A gastrointestinal capsule and treatment methods utilizing such a capsule, the capsule including: (a) a capsule housing having a longitudinal axis; (b) at least one thrusting mechanism, disposed within the housing, the thrusting mechanism adapted to exert forces on the housing such that, when the capsule is disposed within a gastrointestinal tract of a user, and the mechanism is in an active mode, the gastrointestinal capsule exerts forces against, or in a direction of, the walls of the tract; and (c) a power supply adapted to power the mechanism. The gastrointestinal capsule is used in a method for treating a sensation of straining during defecating and/or for increasing a Bristol stool score of fecal matter of a subject by the gastrointestinal capsule being ingested by the subject and activated in a targeted zone of the gastrointestinal tract of the subject.