A device for gathering vital sign and other heath indicator data. The device is constructed to register with a person’s anatomical structure in a predictable fashion, and to include integrated sensors positioned to register with specific anatomical portions of the person. Accordingly, relevant data and assessment may be performed passively, e.g., during physical contact/engagement of the patient with the sensors of the device, which may be for, example, a chair or other piece of furniture in which the patient may sit. The device may analyze gathered sensor data and draw clinical assessment conclusions. Data analysis may be done at the device, or remotely. Vital sign/data and/or assessment conclusions may be displayed to the caregiver only, e.g., via a display device or via an EHR or other computing system receiving data from the device. A separate display screen may display information to the patient for entertainment or instructive purposes.

A body physiotherapy machine contains a conductive sphere member and a body configured to output electric physiotherapy energy to the conductive sphere member. The conductive sphere member is held by a user to contact his/her discomfort or acupuncture points so as to comfort the user and to enhance metabolism by ways of the electric physiotherapy energy, thus maintaining health easily.

A plurality of thermal areas (11a, 11b, 11c, and 11d) of different thermal environments are formed in a room (11). When it is determined that a person (13) riding on a movable object (20) is feeling uncomfortable in the thermal area (11d), the movable object (20) is remotely operated to move toward the thermal area (11a) where the person (13) feels comfortable.

A shift compliance management system manages user compliance with recommendations for shift weight exercises to mitigate risk of a wheelchair user developing pressure ulcers. A sensing device includes an array of pressure sensors to sense the user's weight distribution and to detect timing and duration of weight shifts performed by the user. The sensing device communicates with a user application that assesses a compliance level of the sensed weight shifts with a set of weight shift recommendations for the patient. A compliance server collects patient data and may perform various analytics related to compliance. The analytical data may be presented to the wheelchair user and/or a caretaker to indicate compliance adherence.

Disclosed is a multifunctional exercise chair for body stretching, comprising a wheelchair frame body, wherein a mounting frame is detachably mounted on an end of the wheelchair frame body away from the driving rear wheel and located under the seat cushion, a pedal gear is rotatably mounted at a bottom of the mounting frame and a pedal is provided thereon, a hand crank gear is rotatably mounted on a top of the mounting frame and a hand crank handle is provided thereon, a rotating shaft is provided between two driving rear wheels; a driven gear is fixedly mounted on the rotating shaft, a supporting chain gear is mounted on the mounting frame and arranged adjacent to the pedal gear, and the hand crank gear, the pedal gear, the driven gear and the supporting chain gear are wound and connected by a transmission chain.

A sensor layer for determining temperature profiles on a skin surface. The sensor layer includes at least one ply, a contact layer with the skin surface, the contact layer being arranged on a top side of the at least one ply, a plurality of temperature sensors arranged at least one of in the at least one ply and on the top side of the at least one ply, and conductor tracks arranged at least one of in the at least one ply and on the top side of the at least one ply. The conductor tracks are electrically connected to the plurality of temperature sensors so that the sensor layer is formed to be flexible and so that a temperature difference on the skin surface can be determined via the contact layer.

One embodiment of a monitoring system includes a sensing subsystem adapted to sense an external parameter within a region of interest relative to an occupant support or an occupant of the occupant support. The monitoring system also includes a processor. The processor is adapted to adapted to receive data representing the sensed external parameter and to execute machine readable instructions thereby causing the monitoring system to evaluate, based on the received data, a likelihood that the occupant will attempt an egress from the occupant support. The processor is also adapted to generate a notification of the likelihood of attempted egress.

A notification system is provided that provides notification of patient events such as movement and/or incontinence. The notification system provides for a plurality of different pressure sensor pads as well as an incontinence pad to be used in association with a single monitor.

A patient immersion sensor includes a radio detection and ranging (RADAR) apparatus to determine a time of flight (TOF) of a RADAR pulse and a reflected signal that is reflected by a patient or by a portion of a patient support surface supporting the patient. The TOF is indicative of an immersion depth or a distance toward bottoming out of a patient supported on the patient support surface, such as a mattress or a pad. The RADAR apparatus emits pulses of very short duration so as to be able to detect objects, such as a patient or a portion of a mattress or pad, at very close distances. The RADAR apparatus may use time-of-flight (TOF) between transmission of the pulse and receipt of a reflected signal to determine a distance toward bottoming out by the patient, thereby to determine if the patient is properly immersed into the patient support surface. Adjustments to inflation or deflation of one or more bladders are made to achieve a desired immersion amount within a tolerance range between upper and lower TOF thresholds.

Provided are a seat system and a computer program product by which an occupant seated on a seat can grasp his/her own reflexes or the like. The seat system includes a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor configured to acquire information for use in detecting motion of an occupant seated on the seat body, and a terminal configured to acquire the information from the sensor. The terminal outputs an instruction to prompt the occupant to make a predetermined motion, makes a determination based on the information acquired from the sensor as to whether or not the occupant has made the predetermined motion, and notifies the occupant of a response time elapsed between outputting the instruction and making the predetermined motion, and/or a performance level evaluated based on the response time.