233 results about "Human muscle" patented technology

A method and system are provided for the visual display of anatomical forces, that system having: a motion capture system; a computer, receiving data from said motion capture system; and a computational pipeline disposed on said computer; that computational pipeline being configured to calculate muscle forces and joint torques in real time and visually display those forces and torques.

A device for correcting poor posture comprises a wearable garment comprising a back brace, a plurality of electrodes connected to the wearable garment and configured to electrically stimulate human muscles, and an electric muscle stimulation unit connected to the plurality of electrodes and configured to provide electrical power to the plurality of electrodes.

A robotic structure includes a component that moves from a first position to a second position. Further, the robotic apparatus includes a robotic controller that (i) receives an input quantity and an output quantity that are computed from human motion data based on a human musculoskeletal model, (ii) computes at least one parameter based on the input quantity and the output quantity, and (iii) outputs the output quantity to the component upon an input of robotic motion data from the component.

The present invention relates to variant AAV capsid polypeptides, wherein the variant AAV capsid polypeptides exhibit increased transduction and/or tropism in human muscle tissue or cells as compared non-variant parent capsid polypeptides.

A sutureless implant for replacing damaged natural chordae tedingeae of a human or possibly animal heart, the implant including a distal implant part, a proximal implant part, and an artificial chord. The distal implant part is configured to fit in a lumen of an implant delivery device and includes a self-spreading portion spreading radially outside when the distal implant part is released from the lumen, the self-spreading portion being capable of anchoring the distal implant part in human muscle tissue. The proximal implant part is configured to fit in the lumen of the implant delivery device and comprises a self-spreading portion spreading radially outside when the proximal implant part is released from the lumen, the self-spreading portion being capable of bearing on a tissue portion of leaflet tissue. The distal implant part and the proximal implant part are connected by the chord.

We disclose the use of 25-OH D3 (calcifediol) to increase muscle strength, muscle function, or both. Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) may optionally be used together with 25-OH D3. Forms and dosages of a pharmaceutical composition, as well as processes for manufacturing medicaments, are also disclosed.

Vegetarian amino acid sources are combined to create a protein blend that closely matches human muscle tissue in terms of amino acid composition. “Closely matching” means that the amino acid composition of the protein blend is within five percent (5%) of the amino acid composition of human muscle for all of the amino acids of the human muscle. The protein blend can be used as food or food supplement to facilitate and bolster muscle anabolism for healthy humans desiring such result and also to treat and or ameliorate the effects of certain diseases and conditions such as sarcopenia, cancer cachexia, HIV wasting, malnutrition, primary muscle diseases (myopathy) and side effects of corticosteroid therapy.

The invention provides a wearable human gait mimicking lower limb rehabilitation walking aid device. The device comprises a support frame, a waist part, a thigh pole, a shank pole, foot parts, and a drive module. The drive module is installed on the support frame and is fixed above the waist part, the top end of the thigh pole and the bottom of the waist part are connected in a hinged mode to form a hip joint, the lower end of the thigh pole and the upper end of the shank pole are connected in a hinged mode to form the knee joint, and the lower end of the shank pole and the foot part are connected in a hinged mode to form the ankle joint. The drive module through multiplexed outputs drives multiple flexible cables, each flexible cable as driven by the drive module one-by-one correspondingly pulls the thigh poles and the shank poles on both sides, and the completion of the movement during the gait cycle by the thigh poles, the shank poles and the foot parts is achieved. According to the wearable human gait mimicking lower limb rehabilitation walking aid device, the flexible cables are used to drive each joint part of the lower limbs to simulate human muscles and power the walking, with some flexibility and in line with the motion characteristics of the lower limbs of human bodies, and when the two lower limbs are driven, just two gear motors are used, and the energy consumption is low.

Treating human muscle tissue by the oral administration of a formulation of creatine derivative and in particular creatine esters and more particularly ethyl esters of creatine are described. The formulations comprise a phosphate such as dicalcium phosphate, a biodegradable polymer such as a polyvinyl pyrrolidine and a starch. The formulation may further comprise other excipients such as metal salt of a stearate, e.g. magnesium stearates. The formulation is produced as flowable particles with a sieve size of about 20 to 60 which particles are coated with a shellac to mask taste, avoid moisture uptake, and extend shelf life.

An exercise machine utilizes the inherent capabilities of human muscles to exert greater forces during eccentric functions than during concentric functions. The exercise machine comprises a leverage arm pivotally connected to a frame. A force station is at a first distance from the pivotal connection. During a concentric muscle function, a person lifts first weights on the leverage arm. At the end of the concentric muscle function, a spotter applies a small force to the leverage arm at a second distance greater than the first distance from the pivotal connection. The small force produces a magnified load at the force station that the person resists during an eccentric muscle function. The leverage arm may be adjustable relative to the floor. The weight of the leverage arm may be counterbalanced. Various embodiments of the exercise machine utilize the same principles of physics for exercising different muscles.

The invention discloses an intelligent balloon man system and a control method thereof. The intelligent balloon man system comprises electric extensible rods and a pump and further comprises a skeleton frame, elastic skin, a muscle filling capsule and a control system. The skeleton frame is of a frame structure simulating a human skeleton, rotating joints are arranged at joints of the skeleton frame, and the electric extensible rods are serially connected on arm bones and leg bones of the skeleton frame and used for adjusting length of the arm bones and the bones to simulate changing of different people or growing periods; the muscle filling capsule simulates shape of human muscles, is adhered on the skeleton frame and positioned on the outermost layer of a model and wraps the elastic skin; the pump inflates and deflates the muscle filling capsule, and the control system controls on-off and inflation quantity of the pump. By controlling filling and exhausting of gas or liquid of the muscle filling capsule and controlling skeleton length to preset body size and shape, the problem that conventional human body models are unitary in body shape and time-consuming and labor-consuming in clothes or style changing is solved.

The present invention is directed to an intermediate composition for producing a muscle tissue matrix suitable for implantation in humans, comprising shredded, allogeneic human muscle tissue that has been combined with an aqueous carrier, preferably a biocompatible acid solution, to form a muscle tissue slurry having a viscosity within the range of 1 centistoke to 20,000 centistokes measured at 25° C. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a tissue implant comprising a human muscle tissue matrix.

The invention discloses an upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device driven by a dielectric EAP (Electroactive Polymer) and a method thereof, which relate to a medical rehabilitation appliance. The upper-limb rehabilitation assistive exercise device comprises a rocker, a cross hinge, a driver, a fixing rod, a connecting ring, a bracket and a base. The method comprises two exercise modes: in a passive exercise mode, changing an actual output moment of a driver set by changing voltage applied to the driver and an applying sequence in order to realize the rotation of the rocker, thereby driving the upper limbs of a patient to move; and in an active exercise mode, changing the actual output moment of the driver set by changing the voltage applied to the driver and the applying sequence, using the actual output moment as a damping moment, and overcoming the damping moment by moving the upper limbs of the patient in order to reversely rotate the rocker. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, convenient use, small size, low machining accuracy requirement and low cost; the characteristics of the dielectric EAP are similar to the characteristics of human muscle, and the flexible driving characteristic of the dielectric EAP increases the safety and the comfort of a rehabilitation exercise process.

A muscle strength measuring apparatus has a force receiver connected to a force sensor. An upright bracing surface is rigidly positioned with respect to the force receiver to provide a testing space between the surface and the force receiver. The receiver is adjustable such that a person standing in the testing space can brace against the surface and exert a force against the force receiver with a first muscle on each side of the person's body, and can then adjust the position of the force receiver and exert a force against the force receiver with a second muscle on each side. Thus comparative strengths of muscles on opposite sides of the person's body can be accurately determined by measuring the isometric force exerted by corresponding muscles on each side.

Human muscle tissues involve striated and smooth muscles. Each muscle tissue possesses its own special function. Differences of physiology functions among the muscle tissues are mainly determined by their various initiation and signal transmission systems, defined as the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanism, or initiating and regulating mechanism. The current medications, drugs, and therapies for diseases and symptoms related abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive muscle contraction are aimed just at the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanisms, whereas without directly intending to effect on the muscle molecular motor mechanism i.e. the contractile apparatus mechanism at all, which, however, is in common for all kinds of muscle tissues. The muscle molecular motor mechanism mainly involves recycling of actin-myosin filament cross-bridge formation and sliding movement. In the process, bio-energy provided by ATP hydrolysis is necessarily required. Therefore, abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive contraction of muscle tissues under diseased conditions may be modified by inhibition of the muscle molecular motor with the actin-myosin ATPase inhibitor, which blocks hydrolysis of ATP, then reduces release of bio-energy for the muscle contraction.

Our studies in vitro and in vivo have demonstrated that BDM, an ATPase inhibitor, thereby, its analogues, derivatives, and other chemicals possessing similar effect on ATPase may be used as bio-energy muscle relaxants (general muscle relaxants).

The invention provides a cupping device of compound energy electronic pulse drug introduction which is suitable for health care and physical therapy fitness of human body. By adopting the latest modern nanometer silver material technology, conventional natural jades, the high-tech rare earth permanent magnetic material technology, the modern low-frequency electronic pulse technology and combining the conventional Chinese physical treatment method of cupping physical treatment, the cupping device designs a compound novel cupping physical treatment device with the superposition of a plurality of energies, thus improving and extending the functions and application scales of electronic pulse instrument. The cupping device has the advantages of improving the human blood circulation, increasing the microcirculation, promoting the metabolism function, relaxing human muscles and stimulating the points to provide a novel compound energy physical treatment health care cupping electronic pulse device.