55 results about "Ankle injury" patented technology

The invention provides an ankle joint rehabilitation training device, which comprises a support platform, a first rotating platform, a first driver, a second rotating platform and a second driver, wherein two support pillars are oppositely arranged on the support platform, the first rotating platform is in a frame structure, the two opposite outer sides of the first rotating platform are respectively provided with a first support frame, and the two first support frames and the two support pillars are correspondingly movably matched, so that the first rotating platform can be rotated on a horizontal plane. The first driver is connected with the first rotating platform to drive the first rotating platform to rotate around a first horizontal shaft. The second rotating platform is provided with a footed tray which is rotatably arranged in the first rotating platform around a second horizontal shaft which is perpendicular to the first horizontal shaft. The second driver is connected with the second rotating platform to drive the second rotating platform to rotate around the second horizontal shaft. The ankle joint rehabilitation training device has a simple integral structure, is suitable for the rehabilitation therapy of a patient with ankle joint injury and the measurement of human balance capacity.

A supinator strap integrated with an athletic shoe, sock, or brace for reventing foot and ankle injuries. In the shoe, the supinator strap includes an arch support band that extends from the bottom of the shoe, just under the arch area, around the inner side of the shoe and over the top of the shoe, toward the outer side of the shoe. The supinator strap further includes a rear ankle support band that extends laterally from the arch support band and wraps from the inner side of the shoe, around the rear ankle / heel and toward the outer side of the shoe. In a preferred embodiment, both the foot and rear ankle support band and the arch support band are fully adjustable. The supinator strap provides additional support and stability to the foot and ankle when the shoe is worn, thereby helping to prevent injuries caused by excessive supination or pronation of the foot and ankle. A bridge support helps cushion the foot. An ankle stabilizing strap helps prevent ankle injuries by stabilizing the forefoot, heel, and ankle. In the sock and the brace, the supinator strap operates in a similar manner.

A shoe is provided with an ankle support member to reduce the risk of ankle injury. The ankle support member is a stiff resilient piece of bendable sheet material including a base portion, and a plurality of lateral and medial strips which are inclined upwardly and rearwardly. The ankle support member is bound together with artificial spider web silk for additional strength and flexibility. The base portion has a U-shaped horizontal cross section which extends into and is bonded to the shoe sole. Some lateral strips are connected to medial strips to form inverted support loops behind the wearer's heel. Other lateral and medial strips have free upper ends which are curved toward each other in a transverse direction, and their stiffness deters lateral movement of the ankle to reduce a risk of ankle injury.

A shoe for preventing ankle injuries comprises a sole with a ground-engaging surface, and lateral and medial edges associated with respective lateral and medial connecting portions interconnecting and extending between the ground-engaging surface and the lateral and medial edges. At least one of the connecting portions defines a surface area of reduced friction provided, e.g., in the form of retrofitted patches, which are circumferentially surrounded by adjacent surface areas having a relatively high coefficient of friction. Friction is differentiated in different areas of those parts of the shoe which are implicated in injury mechanisms, and injuries may thus be prevented in the recovery phase after injury, and primary prophylaxis may be achieved. The area of reduced friction reduces the ability of the wearer's foot to rotate relative to ground when the load of the wearer's body is shifted towards or lands near the edge of the shoe.

An exercise apparatus and method for isolating an ankle during aerobic exercise on a bicycle configured to be worn on the leg of a person having an ankle injury so that the person may operate the bicycle with the leg having the ankle injury without pressure on the ankle, wherein weight and force are distributed from the pedal to the calf and thigh without implicating the ankle.

An exercise apparatus and method for isolating an ankle during aerobic exercise on a bicycle configured to be worn on the leg of a person having an ankle injury so that the person may operate the bicycle with the leg having the ankle injury without pressure on the ankle, wherein weight and force are distributed from the pedal to the calf and thigh without implicating the ankle.

A compression sock made from resilient elastic material for the prevention and treatment of foot and ankle injuries. The compression sock having at least two toe sleeves configured to receive one or more toes on the foot. At least one of the toe sleeves having a toe bridge along an upper surface of the toe sleeve and defining a looped opening underneath the toe bridge. A strap configured to pass through the looped opening under the toe bridge so as to be wrapped around the toe sleeve and held in place by the toe bridge. An ankle portion of the sock having a greater density of resilient elastic material than any other portion of the sock so as to provide proprioceptive support to the ankle.

The invention discloses a fully automatic ankle omni-directional movement and weight-bearing rehabilitation device, which relates to the technical field of medical equipment. The main structure comprises a bottom plate, a first motor, a pinion gear, a large ring gear, a rotary table, a ring gear bracket, a foot rest plate, a lower leg fixing plate and a weight-bearing training system. The first motor drives the foot rest to rotate left and right through the pinion gear, the large ring gear and the ring gear support, and the second motor drives the foot rest to move up and down, so that the ankle of the user can complete the omni-directional movement and cooperate with the weight-bearing training system to carry out weight-bearing exercise. The ring gear bracket is elastically connected with the rotary table and the foot rest plate is elastically connected with the second motor, so that the ankle injury caused by excessive rotation angle can be avoided.

An ankle inversion and eversion prevention athletic shoe has an upper foot support portion and a shoe bottom. The ankle inversion and eversion athletic shoe device is designed for preventing an athlete from spraining or turning or rolling an ankle during normal athletic competition or play or activities. The shoe includes a brace. The brace is located either behind the ankle on a heel of the shoe or on a side of said shoe in the general vicinity of the ankle. The brace includes an elongated arm and a floor contact surface designed to limit or control sliding of the foot to enable wearer time to regain composure, footing and balance. The brace provides the wearer time to regain his or her balance onto the shoe bottom, thus significantly limiting or precluding the typical and usually unavoidable ankle injury.

This invention generally relates to a shoe in which an orthopedic adjustment has been integrated into the construction of the shoe itself. The invention entails adjusting one or more of the soles or other construction features of the shoe itself in order to accommodate a medical condition or treatment regimen. In particular, in instances of abnormalities in the knee joint, there is a need to redistribute the weight of the body from an afflicted symptomatic medial compartment of the knee to an un-afflicted and asymptomatic, or lesser effected and less symptomatic compartment so as to relieve the pain and stress at the most afflicted and most symptomatic compartment. Benefits are also achieved by reducing a common ankle injury, and by improving lateral cutting, cornering, and push off maneuvers. The present invention achieves all this by laterally wedging the sole of a shoe, where the angle is chosen to counter and redistribute the weight of the body accordingly thereby changing the axial load on the knee and ankle joints.

The invention provides a front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device. The front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device comprises a wearing module, a brushless servo direct current motor, a motor driver, an ARM (advanced RISC (reduced instruction set computer) machine) controller, a battery and a composite transmission module, wherein the wearing module is fixed on a shank of a human body through a nylon adhesive fastener; a main shank support is correspondingly attached to the shank of the human body; a foot handle and a foot support are correspondingly attached to an ankle of the human body; the brushless servo direct current motor realizes the functions of reducing rotating speed and improving torque by improving the speed reducing ratio of harmonic assemblies in a harmonic speed-reducing transmission unit; the harmonic speed-reducing transmission unit is connected with a bevel gear transmission unit; a transmission reversing effect is achieved through a bevel gear, damping and buffering effects are achieved through a trapezoidal tooth synchronous belt, and power is transmitted to a simulative ankle joint position finally, so that the plantar flexion and dorsal flexion movement of an ankle joint can be realized; by arranging a limiting switch at the simulative ankle joint position, the ankle joint is prevented from moving at an over-large angle. The front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device can be used for assisting a patient suffering from an ankle injury in functional rehabilitative training, and is high in portability and high in control accuracy.

The invention provides a gait feature extraction and generation method for ankle joint ligament injury and a system. The gait feature extraction and generation method includes the steps of ankle motion measurement, data preprocessing, gait phase segmentation, gait feature space construction, gait feature generating, authenticity and generative feature correlation evaluation and visual verificationof generative feature validity. The problems of low feature quality and insufficient sample size in an existing medical system are solved. By collecting gait data of a subject and aiming at the anklejoint ligament injury, a small sample data set of an injury group and a control group is established, feature refinement comparison and analysis are carried out based on an anthropometric method, a gait feature space of ankle joint injury is established, gait feature generation and validity verification are carried out, and a large amount of high-quality and efficient feature data support based on anthropometry is provided for research and application in related fields such as intelligent ankle injury diagnosis and decision-making based on big data, precise construction of rehabilitation programs, and development of assisted exoskeleton robots.

The invention relates to a parallel three-degree-of-freedom ankle joint rehabilitation robot. The ankle joint rehabilitation robot comprises an adjustable pedal, a movable platform, an inner branch chain, a middle branch chain, an outer branch chain, first belt wheel tensioning apparatus, second belt wheel tensioning apparatus, third belt wheel tensioning apparatus and a static platform. The wholerobot is a 3-RRS parallel mechanism, the three branch chains are coaxially installed on a stepped shaft of the static platform, the middles of the branch chains are connected through middle revolutepairs, the tail ends of the branch chains are connected with the movable platform through ball pairs, the axes of base shaft revolute pairs of the three branch chains coincide with a common axis, theaxes of the middle revolute pairs of the three branch chains are perpendicular to one another in a space, the common axis of the three branch chains at the positions of the base shaft revolute pairs and the axes of the middle revolute pairs intersect at a fixed point in the space, and the movable platform has three degrees of freedom rotated around the fixed point. The adjustable pedal is installed on the movable platform, the situation that the ankle joint rotating center coincides with the robot space fixed point is guaranteed by adjusting a height of the adjustable pedal relative to the movable platform and a length of the pedal, and thereby a patient can be helped to do three rehabilitation exercises of back stretching / toe bending, inversion / eversion and inward rotation / outward rotation, or composite rehabilitation exercises. The ankle joint rehabilitation robot is compact in structure, high in control precision, safe, reliable and capable of accurately meeting rehabilitation requirements of patients with the ankle joint injury.

The invention discloses a basketball sports insole. The basketball sports insole comprises an insole body, wherein the insole body comprises an insole half sole, an insole waistline and an insole heelpiece in sequence from front end to rear end, one side of the front end of the insole half sole is provided with an oval arch part, and the other side of the front end of the insole half sole is provided with a wavy gyrate groove; the outer edge of the insole waistline warp upward, both sides of the insole waistline are provided with C-shaped grooves respectively, and the lower side of the insolewaistline is provided with a plant fiber arch supporting gasket; the insole body comprises a nano-bamboo charcoal fiber layer, a first polyurethane foamed cotton layer and a second polyurethane foamedcotton layer in sequence from top to bottom, the lower side, corresponding to insole half sole, of the first polyurethane foamed cotton layer is provided with a half sole shock pad, the shape of thehalf sole shock pad corresponds to the shape of the wavy gyrate groove, and the lower side, corresponding to the insole heelpiece, of the first polyurethane foamed cotton layer is provided with a heelpiece shock pad. The basketball sports insole has the advantages that the shock absorption and foot protection effects are strong, the skid resistance is good, the ankle injury can be prevented, the breathability is good, and the durability is high.

A flexible orthopedic apparatus being made a part of a shoe that will help prevent the occurrence of ankle injury due to a twist while allowing full range of motion of the foot and ankle. The apparatus accomplishes this by placing an adjustable leg attachment to the lower leg and attaching a flexible strap to the leg attachment at one end and the bottom portion of the shoe on the other. By virtue of the design, the apparatus serves as a protective extra ligament that will aid in the prevention of ankle injury.

An ankle inversion and eversion prevention athletic shoe has an upper foot support portion and a shoe bottom. The ankle inversion and eversion athletic shoe device is designed for preventing an athlete from spraining or turning or rolling an ankle during normal athletic competition or play or activities. The shoe includes a brace. The brace is located either behind the ankle on a heel of the shoe or on a side of said shoe in the general vicinity of the ankle. The brace includes an elongated arm and a floor contact surface designed to limit or control sliding of the foot to enable wearer time to regain composure, footing and balance. The brace provides the wearer time to regain his or her balance onto the shoe bottom, thus significantly limiting or precluding the typical and usually unavoidable ankle injury.

The invention discloses an auxiliary walking device for a user with ankle injury. The auxiliary walking device comprises an armpit supporting device, support columns and a foot fixing device, whereinthe support s allowing angular adjustment are arranged between the armpit supporting device and the foot fixing device. The support columns include an upper body support column, a thigh support columnand a calf support column. A rotating shaft mechanism allowing angular adjustment is arranged between the upper body support column and the thigh support column and between the thigh support column and the calf support column respectively. The outer portions of the upper body support column, the thigh support column and the calf support column are respectively provided with a fixing strap. The foot fixing device comprises a fixing device bottom plate in rigid connection with the calf support column. A flexible sheath is disposed on the upper surface of the fixing device bottom plate. A heating device is arranged in the flexible sheath. The auxiliary walking device can assist the user with the ankle injury to walk normally and assist the ankle rehabilitation, and is convenient to wear.

The invention provides an ankle rehabilitation training device. The ankle rehabilitation training device comprises a box body which is provided with a containing space, wherein one side of the box body is provided with an operation opening, and the other opposite side of the box body is provided with a mounting side plate; an ankle training assembly which is arranged in the containing space and is connected to the mounting side plate; the ankle training assembly comprises a pedal which is arranged in the containing space and is close to the operation opening; a telescopic assembly which is connected between the pedal and the mounting side plate; and a control assembly which is connected with the telescopic assembly and controls the telescopic assembly to stretch out and draw back. The device can achieve ankle rehabilitation training and effectively treat ankle injuries.

The invention provides an instrument for ankle joint injury ligament reconstruction and an operation method thereof. The instrument comprises a guiding device, a guide needle, a leading device and a miniature fixator, wherein the guiding device comprises an operation handle and a guide pipe; one end of the guide pipe is fixedly connected with the vertical side wall of the operation handle; a through hole communicating with the guide pipe is formed in the operation handle; the guide needle is in a rod shape and can penetrate through the guide pipe; a clamping traction end is arranged at one endof the guide needle; the leading device comprises a first leading section, a second leading section and a third leading section; and the miniature fixator comprises a square frame, and two rod clawswhich are symmetrically distributed up and down are symmetrically arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the right side wall of the square frame respectively. By means of the guiding device, the guide needle and the operation method of the leading device, ligament implantation can be smoothly reconstructed, ligament reconstruction operation can be smoothly achieved in an assisted mode through the instrument, and the operation effect is good.

The present invention relates to an exercise device, more particularly, to a fat-burning exercise device. Including auxiliary base, upper body trainer, pressure generator, reference tube, lower body trainer, supercharger and card locker, it can perform aerobic exercise that does not hurt joints, and can adjust the intensity of aerobic exercise, thereby changing fat burning It can help users with heavy weight or ankle injuries to carry out fat-burning training; in addition to aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise can also be performed, so that anaerobic exercise can be performed directly after aerobic exercise to increase strength and muscle strength. Reduce training costs.

The invention relates to an ultrasonic array measurement method for an ankle joint injury degree. The method includes the steps: exciting a plurality of ultrasonic vibration elements to transmit ultrasonic signals to ankle joints at the same time; measuring the ultrasonic signals of different positions of the ankle joints; comprehensively and objectively giving an evaluation value of the ankle joint injury degree according to echo signals of a plurality of position points of the ankle joints. The method is applied to evaluation requirements of ankle injury degrees of patients at rehabilitationstages, and effective guidance bases are provided for rehabilitation treatment schemes at different rehabilitation stages.

The invention provides a front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device. The front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device comprises a wearing module, a brushless servo direct current motor, a motor driver, an ARM (advanced RISC (reduced instruction set computer) machine) controller, a battery and a composite transmission module, wherein the wearing module is fixed on a shank of a human body through a nylon adhesive fastener; a main shank support is correspondingly attached to the shank of the human body; a foot handle and a foot support are correspondingly attached to an ankle of the human body; the brushless servo direct current motor realizes the functions of reducing rotating speed and improving torque by improving the speed reducing ratio of harmonic assemblies in a harmonic speed-reducing transmission unit; the harmonic speed-reducing transmission unit is connected with a bevel gear transmission unit; a transmission reversing effect is achieved through a bevel gear, damping and buffering effects are achieved through a trapezoidal tooth synchronous belt, and power is transmitted to a simulative ankle joint position finally, so that the plantar flexion and dorsal flexion movement of an ankle joint can be realized; by arranging a limiting switch at the simulative ankle joint position, the ankle joint is prevented from moving at an over-large angle. The front dynamic ankle rehabilitation orthotics device can be used for assisting a patient suffering from an ankle injury in functional rehabilitative training, and is high in portability and high in control accuracy.

A shoe for preventing ankle injuries comprises a sole with a ground-engaging surface, and lateral and medial edges associated with respective lateral and medial connecting portions interconnecting and extending between the ground-engaging surface and the lateral and medial edges. At least one of the connecting portions defines a surface area of reduced friction provided, e.g., in the form of retrofitted patches, which are circumferentially surrounded by adjacent surface areas having a relatively high coefficient of friction. Friction is differentiated in different areas of those parts of the shoe which are implicated in injury mechanisms, and injuries may thus be prevented in the recovery phase after injury, and primary prophylaxis may be achieved. The area of reduced friction reduces the ability of the wearer's foot to rotate relative to ground when the load of the wearer's body is shifted towards or lands near the edge of the shoe.

The invention discloses a parallel ankle joint rehabilitation system flexibly driven by pneumatic muscles and a control method thereof. The parallel ankle joint rehabilitation system comprises a parallel ankle joint rehabilitation mechanism and a control seat, wherein the rehabilitation mechanism comprises an upper / lower platform, a foot support module, the pneumatic muscles, a foot support supporting rod, an upper / lower supporting rod, a flange, a flange plate and a Hook hinge, and the control seat comprises an adjustable foot stool, a pressure reducing valve set, an integrated valve block set and a seat rack. The rehabilitation training control method comprises the steps of selecting a training mode, setting related parameters, determining an expected movement track, solving the expected length of each pneumatic muscle, and carrying out air pressure control and length closed-loop control on each pneumatic muscle, thereby realizing the overall control of the rehabilitation mechanism. According to the rehabilitation system disclosed by the invention, a set of soft and safe rehabilitation equipment and rehabilitation training methods under different requirements are provided for people suffering from ankle joint injury, the rehabilitation effect of patients is improved, and the initiative and enthusiasm of the patients in a rehabilitation training process are improved.

The invention discloses a car safety belt buckle body, which consists of a woven belt connecting block and a buckle connecting block, wherein the middle part of the woven belt connecting block is provided with an open groove through which a woven belt is arranged in a penetrating way; the buckle connecting block is provided with a lock tongue through which a lock body is inserted; one end of the woven belt connecting block and one end of buckle connecting block are provided with one group of rotating tube struts in opposite arrangement; rotatable rotating tubes are fixedly arranged between the rotating tube struts; the woven belt connecting block and the buckle connecting block are connected into a whole through a buffer belt sheathing the two rotating tubes. The car safety belt buckle body has the advantages that the buckle body is divided into two parts; the two parts are connected into a whole through the buffer belt; when the buckle body is buckled and arranged on the lock body, the woven belt connecting block can be automatically folded, so that a safety belt can be better fit on the human body; persons feel comfortable during the wearing; when accidents occur, the buffer belt can partially extend under the effect of impact force; the buffer effect is achieved; the ankle injury of the woven belt on the human body is avoided; the security coefficient is effectively improved.

An ankle rehabilitation device that is simple, affordable, durable, cost effective, easy to use, and portable is provided. The ankle rehabilitation device includes a plate member, one or more straps fixed to a front surface of the plate member and configured to hold a user's foot, and two rings fixed to a rear surface of the plate member wherein the two rings are aligned in a lateral direction of the plate member and spaced by a predetermined distance. Through the use of a method and the device in accordance with the present invention, a user who has a mild or moderate ankle injury will be able to perform an affordable ankle exercise without clinicians' assist, thereby restoring the ankle strength.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and discloses a bed body bracket for recovery after ankle injury. The bracket comprises a bed body, a supporting mechanism is arranged at the top of the bed body, the supporting mechanism comprises limiting frames, a supporting plate and a containing plate, the two limiting frames are arranged on the left side and the right sideof the top of the bed body respectively, the containing plate is arranged on the supporting plate, and fastening mechanisms are arranged between the two limiting frames and the bed body. According tothe bed body bracket for recovery after ankle injury, a silica gel protection pad is arranged on the concave inner wall of the containing plate, the silica gel protection pad is contacted with a humanbody, rigid contact between the human body and the containing plate is reduced, and pain and discomfort brought to the human body are also reduced. The containing plate is arranged to be concave, thehuman body habit of an ankle wounded person lying on a bed for rehabilitation is met, the contact position and angle of the wounded ankle part can be properly changed on the containing plate, and theproblem that in the rehabilitation process, the foot posture is not moved for a long time, and consequently blood circulation is poor is solved.

The invention discloses an injured ankle supporting walking-aiding device. The injured ankle supporting walking-aiding device comprises a supporting device, a moving device and a fixing device, wherein the moving device is clamped at the front end of the supporting device, the fixing device is installed in the moving device, the supporting device comprises a supporting box, sliding grooves are symmetrically formed in the front and rear inner side faces of the supporting box, clamp-connecting holes are formed in the lower ends of the sliding grooves, an L-shaped clamp-connecting plate is arranged at the front end of the supporting box, and clamp-connecting mechanisms are symmetrically arranged at the lower ends of the left and right side faces of the L-shaped clamp-connecting plate, and a supporting rod is arranged in the middle of the upper end face of the supporting box. The injured ankle supporting walking-aiding device can solve the problems that an existing walking-aiding device cannot protect the ankle, cannot exercise the bearing ability of the ankle, and the fixing device has no limiting mechanism, can easily cause secondary injury to the ankle and cannot be separated from the supporting device, can achieve the function of assisting walking of a person with the injured ankle, and has the advantages of comprehensive protecting the ankle, being capable of exercising the bearing ability of the ankle, and facilitating separation of the fixing device from the supporting device.

The invention discloses a lower limb rehabilitation device for disabled people. The device comprises a mounting base, wherein a first motor is arranged on one side of the mounting base, a second motoris arranged on the other side of the mounting base, a motor rotating shaft is arranged on one end of the first motor, the bottom end of a third rotating shaft is connected with a chain, one end of the chain is connected with a threaded rod rotating shaft, the top end of the threaded rod rotating shaft is provided with a threaded rod, a screw is arranged in the threaded rod, and the top of the screw is provided with a connecting rod. The lower limb rehabilitation device for the disabled people has the advantages that the threaded rod and the screw are arranged, so that a user adjusts the height of a protective rod conveniently, the disabled people move inconveniently, and the user electrically adjusts the height of the protective rod; an elastic cloth belt is arranged to prevent accident collision caused when the disabled people are trained; a protective pad is arranged to avoid the ankle injury of the disabled people; a sliding groove, a second mounting plate and a third mounting plate are arranged to ensure that the disabled people cannot be injured when handling training devices.