877 results about "Paralysis" patented technology

The present invention provides for an improved apparatus and method for electrical stimulation. A paddle having a thickness up to 0.030 inches is implanted adjacent the spinal cord dura mater to reduce the likelihood of paralysis due to stress on the spinal cord attributed to bulkier leads. The paddle is then positioned so that at least one of a plurality of electrodes is positioned over the area of the spinal cord requiring pain treatment; and then electric stimulation is applied to the electrodes to effect pain treatment. In another embodiment the paddle is curved about a vertical axis to substantially match the shape of a human spinal cord dura mater to help reduce lead migration.

A human lower extremity exoskeleton walking aid rehabilitation robot belongs to the technical field of medical rehabilitation equipment, and comprises a lower back movement module, a hip joint movement module, a knee joint movement module and an ankle joint movement module, wherein a back servo motor drives a hip joint to move through a crank and rocker mechanism and a space four-links mechanism; an electric knee push rod drives a knee joint to move; an electric ankle push rod drives an ankle joint to move. The human lower extremity exoskeleton walking aid rehabilitation robot helps a patient with lower limb paralysis to stand and walk, and the flexion and extension movement of the hip joint, the knee joint and the ankle joint is controlled by acquiring pressure signals of soles of feet, so that the patient is helped to stride; the construction and model design of the ankle joint inversion and eversion passive driving degree of freedom can help to reduce impact from the ground, is conductive to reducing the burden of a user keeping balance of the self and the exoskeleton robot in a frontal plane, is beneficial for the patient to walk comfortably, and improves the rehabilitation training efficiency.

The invention relates to an apparatus for rehabilitation treatment of patients with lower limb paralysis or physical strength weakening, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for lower limb rehabilitation treatment and exercise. The apparatus and method allows a user to exercise both lower limbs separately, and which can detect changes in the angle of lower limb joints and the magnitude of weight loaded on lower limbs to determine the exercise condition, exercise intensity and motor ability of the respective lower limbs to provide corresponding feedback to the user, thereby enabling effective rehabilitation treatment.

The present invention relates to antibodies and related molecules that specifically bind to the Nogo receptor (NogoR). Such antibodies have uses, for example, in the treatment of spinal cord injury, brain trauma, paralysis, degenerative nervous system diseases, and stroke. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding anti-NogoR antibodies, vectors and host cells containing these nucleic acids, and methods for producing the same.

The present invention discloses a block chain-based electronic invoice integrated processing method and system and belongs to the electronic invoice technical field. The method includes the following steps that: tax payment clients acquire user digital certificates and add the user digital certificates to a block chain network; the tax payment clients arrange the content of electronic invoices into the optional data fields of transactions, sign the transactions and submit the transactions; a plurality of accounting nodes are deployed, some accounting nodes endorse the submitted transactions and send the endorsed transactions to the tax payment clients; the tax payment clients judge whether the endorsed transactions accord with endorsement strategies, if the endorsed transactions accord with the endorsement strategies, the tax payment clients send the endorsed transactions to a consensus service node; and the consensus service nodes performs consensus sorting and send formed blocks to all the accounting nodes; and all the accounting nodes verify whether the identities of drawers are consistent with identities in the user digital certificates of the drawers, add transactions of which the identities are consistent with the identities in the user digital certificates of the drawers to a block chain, and send transaction IDs to the corresponding tax payment clients. With the block chain-based electronic invoice integrated processing method and system of the invention adopted, decentralization can be realized, so that the paralysis of the entire system or a network caused by a single-point fault can be avoided.

The invention relates to an artificial-intelligence exercise assisting device. The artificial-intelligence exercise assisting device is mainly used for lower-limb walking assisting and lower-limb rehabilitation training. According to the technical scheme, the artificial-intelligence exercise assisting device comprises a structure supporting system, sensors, sensor circuits, a signal processing system (a mobile calculation platform), a driving executing device, a power system and a walking stick. The artificial-intelligence exercise assisting device has the advantages that the dilemma that movement of the lower limbs of a paralysis patient, a hemiplegic paralysis patient, a fracture patient and an old bone joint retrogressive disease patient is inconvenient is overcome. A user wears an exoskeleton wearing assisting device, human body signals and the assisting device interact with each other and are matched, the human body transmits a control command to the exoskeleton wearing assisting device, exoskeleton detects the human body signals, a proper command is obtained after artificial intelligence calculation, then driving mechanisms provide energy required by movement for the lower limbs of the human body, and the finally the effect that artificial intelligent and mechanical force are supplemented and interacted is achieved. According to the artificial-intelligence exercise assisting device, the human body control signals and the artificial intelligence of a machine are fused, the balance of the gravity center of the human body is controlled, and mild control over the exoskeleton assisting device is obtained.

The invention discloses traditional Chinese medicine liquor for treating arthritis. The traditional Chinese medicine liquor is mainly prepared from raw dog bones, radix rehmanniae, angelica, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, sheep fat prepared herba epimedii, wine prepared radices paeoniae alba, cornua cervi pantotrichum, white wine, sugar candy, white sugar and other raw materials by a medicine liquor preparation method. With the compatibility of the raw material medicines, the traditional Chinese medicine liquor has the efficacies of expelling wind, eliminating dampness, dredging meridian passage, strengthening tendons and bones, replenishing qi, invigorating spleen, warming kidney, removing paralysis and relieving pain, and is suitable for rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis of other properties.

Methods are described comprising: administering to a mammal with a paralysis an electrical enabling motor control stimulation to at a sub-threshold location, wherein the electrical enabling motor control stimulation provides spontaneous voluntary movement of at least one body part.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for lower-limb rehabilitation training of a patient with lower limb paralysis. The invention measures the usage of the paralyzed lower limb, and based upon the measurement, forces patients with lower limb paralysis to use partially paralyzed muscles which they are not likely to use. The apparatus can measure the weight load and the angle of the joint, and by using the measure values as variables, display the condition of paralysis to the patient so that he / she can recognize his / her present condition of paralysis, and enable the user to training through feedback. The joint includes all of knee joint, ankle joint and hip joint of the lower limb, and the movement of important muscles of the lower limb can be detected. With the apparatus attached, the patient can perform a balance training of alternatively raising the paralyzed lower limb and the normal limb, a standing training of bending and straightening both knees of the lower limbs and a walking training of using the both lower limbs.

The invention relates to a multi-effect external plaster and belongs to the field of external traditional Chinese medicines. The multi-effect external plaster is characterized by consisting of components A and B, wherein the component A comprises more than sixty Chinese herbs such as Chinese angelica, white paeony root, peach seed, beautiful sweetgum fruit, Indian iphigenia bulb, common selfheal fruit-spike, European verbena, twotooth achyranthes root, eucommia bark, centipede and the like, colophony, yellow lead and sesame oil; and the component B mainly comprises more than ten Chinese herbal medicinal ingredients such as white pepper, safflower, white mustard seed, medcinal evodia fruit, pyrite, dragon's blood, menthol, azone and the like, superfine natural magnetite powder and infrared ceramic powder. By combining the components A and B, the plaster of the invention not only has treatment effectiveness of the traditional plaster, but also has physiotherapy effectiveness of infrared rays, magnet therapy and the like. The multi-effect external plaster is suitable for various symptoms, such as traumatic injury, cervical spondylosis, spinal stenosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, protrusion of lumbar vertebral disc, sciatica, lumbar muscle strain, arthritis, paraesthesia, facial nerve paralysis, facial nerve spasm, irregular menstruation and the like.

A Chinese medicine in the form of powder, pill, tablet, plaster, or medical wine for treating the palsy caused by sciatic nerve, central nerve, etc, hyperosteogeny, myodystrophy, etc is prepared from multiple Chinese-medicinal materials. Its preparing process is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to antibodies and related molecules that specifically bind to the Nogo receptor (NogoR). Such antibodies have uses, for example, in the treatment of spinal cord injury, brain trauma, paralysis, degenerative nervous system diseases, and stroke. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding anti-NogoR antibodies, vectors and host cells containing these nucleic acids, and methods for producing the same.

This invention provides methods and devices for reconstructing muscular responses in patients with paralysis. Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators power implants attached to tissues in the patients. When the actuators are energized, the implants move the tissues appropriately to provide improved body functions to patients experiencing a paralysis or paresis.

A method of controlling obesity by injecting bio-compatible bulking material into the pyloric sphincter area of the stomach. The injection of this material bulks the pyloric sphincter, retarding stomach emptying and producing a feeling of satiation in the patient. The method may be supplemental and augmented by inducing flacid paralysis of the stomach by injecting botulinum toxin into the muscle tissue of the antrum or fundus of the stomach.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for lower-limb rehabilitation training of a patient with lower limb paralysis. The invention measures the usage of the paralyzed lower limb, and based upon the measurement, forces patients with lower limb paralysis to use partially paralyzed muscles which they are not likely to use. The apparatus can measure the weight load and the angle of the joint, and by using the measure values as variables, display the condition of paralysis to the patient so that he / she can recognize his / her present condition of paralysis, and enable the user to training through feedback. The joint includes all of knee joint, ankle joint and hip joint of the lower limb, and the movement of important muscles of the lower limb can be detected. With the apparatus attached, the patient can perform a balance training of alternatively raising the paralyzed lower limb and the normal limb, a standing training of bending and straightening both knees of the lower limbs and a walking training of using the both lower limbs.

A monolithic device (10) for providing defibrillation, pacing, and cardiac paralysis of a heart. Various electronic waveforms are generated by the device and are selected for the type of control required. Defibrillation and pacing of a human heart from outside the body employs defibrillation circuitry having an electromotive force of less than or equal to approximately 200 volts. Digital circuitry for generating direct current waveforms to the heart is employed.

A method of producing a healthcare yang-invigorating preparation for males is provided. The method is characterized in that: male silkworm pupa-cordyceps militaris-oyster peptides prepared by subjecting raw materials including male silkworm pupae, cordyceps militaris (L.) Link and oyster to enzymolysis, a composite extract prepared from mulberry fruit, barbary wolfberry fruit, palmleaf raspberry fruit, solomonseal rhizome, common yam rhizome, gordon euryale seed, poria, jujube kernels, cortex cinnamomi, Chinese date and ginseng and broken pine pollen prepared from pine pollen are added and fully mixed, an excipient is added into the mixture and the mixture is prepared into granules, capsules, and a tablet candy preparation according to conventional preparing processes. Compatibility of components adopted is scientific. An adopted preparing process is unique and simple. According to the method and the preparation, a production process is simple, the preparation is simple to eat, has effects of tonifying the kidney and qi, tonifying the lung and kidney, promoting sperm production, boosting marrow, invigorating the spleen and the stomach, improving microcirculation of human bodies, eliminating moisture, removing paralysis, boosting immunity, preventing fatigue, resisting viruses, strengthening bodies, invigorating yang and treating impotence, has obvious curative effects, mild functions and no side or toxic effects, and is an ideal healthcare yang-invigorating preparation for males.

The invention discloses a multiple-pose lower limb rehabilitation training robot which comprises a robot base and a training bed. The training bed comprises two leg mechanisms, a seat, a seat width adjusting mechanism, a human body gravity center adjusting mechanism, a back cushion, a weight reduction system and a seat back cushion angle adjusting mechanism. The robot base comprises a bed body angle adjusting mechanism, and the bed body angle adjusting mechanism is matched with a seat angle adjusting mechanism and can provide multiple pose training modes including lying, sitting, standing and the like for a paralysis patient. Each leg mechanism comprises a hip joint, a knee joint and an ankle joint. The hip joint, the knee joints and the ankle joints are driven by a motor and are provided with angle and force sensors, can be used for recognizing motion intention of the patient and facilitate active and aiding training of the patient. The human body gravity center adjusting mechanism, the leg mechanisms and the weight reduction system are mutually matched, bionic gaits approximating to natural walking of a human body can be achieved, and gait training effect can be improved.

The invention discloses a multi-network refined emergency rescue command system based on cloud computing, and the system comprises an emergency rescue command system and application networks. The emergency rescue command system comprises a rear commanding center, a front commanding center, and an onsite rescue team. The application networks comprise an air and space emergency transmission network,an onsite emergency communication network, a self-organizing wireless transmission network and an early warning information issuing network. The system completes the conventional emergency command architecture and working mode, expands the sky-ground integrated wide coverage to the deep coverage, achieves the refined command communication of different architecture layers: the rear commanding center, the front commanding center and the onsite rescue team, can guarantee that the problems of communication interruption and paralysis caused by the great decreasing of the communication capability caused by the damages to a base station are solved in the maximum range after a major disaster, guarantees the refined command in the onsite rescue process, and greatly improves the emergency communication guarantee capability.

The invention relates to a method for detecting the unknown abnormal behaviors of a website, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining original website information, carrying out the preprocessing and learning, and completing a directed graph and a webpage in-degree table of the website; detecting the access abnormal data of a single page; giving an alarm if the abnormality is detected, and adding one to the number of alarm times; detecting the access abnormality data of a key service; giving an alarm if the abnormality is detected, and adding one to the number of alarm times; detecting the access abnormality data of a single user; giving an alarm if the abnormality is detected, and adding one to the number of alarm times; counting the alarm times, and detecting the number of alarm times of a website HTTP protocol status code; giving an alarm to a website with the number of alarm times of the website HTTP protocol status code being greater than 20 in each half of an hour, carrying out the statistics of abnormal webpage URLs, and carrying out the sorting according to the number of access times; and carrying out the inspection. The method is used for detecting the security flaws of the website and various types of known threats, analyzing the unknown illegal connection and access, carrying out the early warning for a network problem, avoiding the paralysis of a user's network to the greatest extent, and facilitating the subsequent inspection, treatment and maintenance.

The level of consciousness of a patient (i.e. the hypnotic state and / or the level of anaesthesia) is represented aurally. A measure of the patient's level of consciousness, such as the BIS index value, is obtained, and an audio signal is synthesized from that measure, and then output through a speaker. Both the volume and pitch of the audio signal may vary according to the BIS value being represented, so that a clinician can obtain an indication of the level of consciousness of the patient simply by listening to the sonification of the BIS value. The audio signal may comprise first and second audio components, with the first component representing the previous measure and the second component representing the current measure. The amplitude or pitch of the audio signal may be modulated to represent analgesia or paralysis of the patient.

The invention discloses a method for preventing website access congestion. The method comprises the following steps that: (1) a website system sets a service area, access requests entering the service area obtains a Web access service, and the access requests not entering the service area form a waiting queue according to a requesting time sequence; and (2) the system checks the current capacity of the service area, and if the current capacity is less than a service area threshold value, allows the access requests in the waiting queue to sequentially enter the service area until the capacity of the service area reaches the service area threshold value. By the method, the number of the access requests concurrently occupying website service resources is strictly limited by the set service area threshold value, and the access request is called in from the waiting queue to obtain the access service immediately when the service area has any vacancy, thereby establishing an access order for the access requests in the number exceeding the service area threshold value to further avoid the serious consequences of website congestion even paralysis caused by the sudden large-scale access requests.

Methods and constructs for genetic manipulation of one or more of shrimp, shellfish, mollusks, and fish are disclosed. The nucleic acid construct includes a promoter and an internal ribosome entry site of an insect picomavirus, such as a cricket paralysis-like picomavirus. One or more open reading frames can be operably associated with one or both of the promoter and the internal ribosome entry site, and one or more proteins or protein subunits can be expressed upon introduction of the construct into a host cell, such as into a shrimp. Method for producing immortalized crustacean cell lines using enhancer elements derived from shrimp and / or shrimp viruses are also described.

The invention relates to a line angle driving lower limb walking aid. The walking aid comprises bilaterally symmetrical waist support brackets, thigh support rods, shank support rods, feet support plates, first hip joint revolute pairs, second hip joint revolute pairs, knee joint revolute pairs, ankle joint revolute pairs, abduction and adduction driving mechanisms, flexion and extension driving mechanisms, thigh fastening straps and shank fastening straps. The walking aid has the following advantages: the walking aid has a scientific and reasonable structure design, can assist patients with paralysis of lower limbs to stand and walk, is stable in operation and reliable in support, is easy to produce and has low cost.

The application presents a multi-posture lower limb rehabilitation robot, which includes a robot base and a training bed. The training bed comprises two sets of leg mechanisms, a seat, a seat width adjustment mechanism, a mechanism for adjusting the gravity center of human body, a back cushion, a weight support system and a mechanism for adjusting the back cushion angle. The robot base comprises a mechanism for adjusting the bed angle. The mechanisms for adjusting the angles of bed and back cushion can be used together to provide paralysis patients with multiple training modes of lying, sitting, and standing postures. Each leg mechanism comprises hip, knee, and ankle joints, which are driven by electric motors; angle and force sensors are installed on each joint, and can be used to identify patients' motion intention to provide patients with active and assistant training. The mechanism for adjusting the gravity center of human body, the leg mechanisms, and the weight support system can be used together to implement human natural walking gait to improve the training effect.

The invention discloses a brain computer interface-based self-adaptive home environment control device and a control method thereof. The device comprises a visual stimulation screen, a brain electricity acquisition unit, a computer, a master controller and a slave controller. The device comprises two parts: brain control home appliances and a brain control wheelchair; the patients with severe paralysis (such as spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the like) can realize indoor movement by using the wheelchair and realize the control of home appliances (such as a television, an air conditioner and an electric lamp) while sitting on the wheelchair. The device is stable in performance, and can be used for effectively improving the self-care ability and life quality of the severe paralyzed patients.

The invention discloses a multi-frequency time sequence combined steady-stage visual evoked potential brain-computer interface method. The method comprises the following steps of: putting a measurement electrode on the head of a subject and connecting the measurement electrode with an electroencephalogram amplifier, a computer and a computer screen; and forming n different representation targets by using n stimulus frequencies, wherein n is an integer more than 1; and realizing the representation of the visual targets and the visual feedback of the subject by using the computer screen. The method improves the information transmission rate of the brain-computer interface by constructing a plurality of representation targets from a few stimulus frequencies, has the advantages of multiple representation targets and high specificity of the detection result, can realize communication between the disabled having normal mind but suffering from paralysis of the neuromuscular system and an external apparatus, and is suitable for a normal person on occasions that the limbs are inconvenient to control.

The present invention relates to methods and immunonutritional compositions for preventing the impairment of the immune function during anti-cancer therapy, thereby attaining a better efficacy of the treatment. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and immunonutritional compositions that can transiently preventing or moderating, bone marrow paralysis or neutropenia of a subject undergoing anti-cancer therapy-induced apoptosis or necrosis or other cell damage such that the innate and adaptive immune functions and normal physiology of the bone marrow are preserved, at least in part, which, in turn, lead to (i) a better tolerance and increased efficacy to anti-cancer therapy; (ii) transient augmentation or enhancement of immunocompetence of the immune cell; and (iii) optimization of the effects of and increase of immunocompetence of the immune cell weakened by anti-cancer therapy.

The invention discloses an electric stimulation therapeutic apparatus with signal prompt, which comprises electrodes, a power supply, a microprocessor, a pulse signal generating module, a power amplifying and boosting circuit, a liquid crystal display and touch screen control panel, a recording and voice prompting module, a signal lamp and an output current detection and protection circuit. The therapeutic apparatus of the invention is provided with two groups of independent output channels, can adopt a prescription therapeutic mode and a free programming therapeutic mode, can control an amplitude, a pulse width, a frequency and a therapeutic time of a therapeutic pulse by programming with the microprocessor, realizes human-computer interaction by using the control panel and a liquid crystal display, facilitates the performance of electric stimulation therapy of doctors on patients by giving acoustic and optical command prompts and has very good rehabilitation effect on the patients suffering from I-grade to III-grade myasthenia caused by brain paralysis or other reasons.