41 results about "Trapezius muscle" patented technology

One embodiment of a rigid fixture for coupling one or more transducers to the center upper back of the human body. The left contact area (10) and right contact area (11) are curved surfaces designed to ergonomically fit against the trapezius muscle groups. The contact areas (10) and (11) may optionally be covered with a cushioning pads (31). Between the contact areas (10) and (11) is a center section spaced away from the spine (12) that is not in contact with the human body. One or more transducers (30) are attached or incorporated into the center section (12), which may be facilitated by transducer attach points (21). The entire fixture can be fastened to straps, belts, harnesses, backpacks, clothing, or seats by the attach points (20).

An electric vest for therapeutic heating of the upper torso. An insulated electrical conductor is fixed to a canvas matrix by means of metal clips. The canvas matrix in layout resembles a face shaped region with radially-directed ears shaped regions so that, when worn over the shoulders of user, the pectoralis muscles of the upper chest, the trapezius muscles of the upper back and the posterior cervical muscles are covered. The electrical conductor is fixed to a path traversing the canvas matrix whereby heating is simultaneously provided to the neck, upper back and upper chest regions of the wearer.

Disclosed herein are a cold/warm headrest for a vehicle and a method of controlling operation thereof. It is possible to provide cold air to an occipital region, a head, and a face of a seated occupant, and to provide warmth to a neck and shoulders of the occupant, in which the trapezius muscles are located along with peripheral nerves.

A stress-reducer is provided for reducing stress on a user from a load of a carried item or object. The stress-reducer is shaped as a yoke and worn over a shoulder of a user and supports the carried item or object. The yoke bridges or spans the shoulder of the user, substantially the upper part of the trapezius muscle and/or the collarbone. The yoke is in contact with either side of the upper part of the user's shoulder on an anterior and/or posterior side. The stress-reducer can be used with strap means. A carried item, equipped with a stress-reducer, a brassiere fitted with a stress-reducer and a garment having a stress-reducer attached thereto are also provided, as well as an arm carrier comprising a stress-reducer, a cradle being attached to an arm and a string being connected between the stress-reducer and the cradle.

A stabilizing scapular rehabilitation brace that operates to aid patients in rehabilitating their shoulder joint in an anatomically correct manner with the trapezius is locked down in order to prevent substantial upward shoulder shrug movements. The stabilizing scapular rehabilitation brace includes a shoulder harness, a stabilization strap, and a thigh strap, with the stabilization strap operating to both tighten the shoulder harness on a user and connect and anchor the shoulder harness to the thigh strap. With the shoulder harness operating to keep the user's shoulder blades retracted and the thigh strap and stabilization strap preventing the shoulder harness, these components work together to emulate the same “hand on trapezius area” function that therapists manually apply to patient rehabbing a shoulder condition in-clinic.

The invention discloses a patient neck positioner for thyroid and breast surgery, which comprises an arc-shaped air bag for positioning and adjusting the neck of a patient, the top of the arc-shaped air bag is provided with an air guide valve hermetically and fixedly connected with an external air source, the arc-shaped outline of the arc-shaped air bag close to the top is fixedly sleeved with a connecting sleeve plate, and the bottom of the arc-shaped air bag is fixedly connected with two symmetrical bottom plates. Through cooperative use of the structures, the patient neck positioned solves the problems that in the actual use process, due to the fact that a traditional neck positioner is inconvenient to use, after the posture of a patient is fixed for a long time, the neck of the patient is prone to aching pain, particularly trapezius closely connected with the neck is in a long-time tension state, muscle stiffness and aching pain are caused, the patient can twist in a spontaneous mode, secondary injury to a neck wound is easily caused due to an incorrect twisting mode, the recovery period is prolonged, and inconvenience is brought to use.

The invention discloses an automatic diagnosis and treatment device and method for a levator scapulae injury based on modal coordinates. The device comprises a three-dimensional scanning device, a micro-scalpel, an image displaying module, a hydraulic control module, a cutting edge direction control module and a control system; firstly, the three-dimensional scanning device conducts three-dimensional scanning on the trapezius muscle tissue to be detected and transmits a result to the control system, and the coordinates of all preset points before and after the injury occurs are obtained after processing; secondly, the micro-scalpel is controlled to work by the hydraulic control module and the cutting edge direction control module, and the scanning situations and the working situations are displayed in the image displaying module in real time. According to the automatic diagnosis and treatment device and method for the levator scapulae injury based on the modal coordinates, firstly, by conducting three-dimensional scanning on the trapezius muscle of the human body, the digitized modal coordinates of the trapezius muscle are established; secondly, three-dimensional meshing is conducted on the trapezius muscle, the curvatures of the preset points when lesion does not occur on the trapezius muscle are calculated, and the location of the lesion on the trapezius muscle is determined; finally, automatic diagnosis and treatment are conducted. Thus, the automatic diagnosis and treatment of the levator scapulae injury are quickly and efficiently achieved.

The invention discloses a multifunctional medical shoulder joint dislocation preventing device. The multifunctional medical shoulder joint dislocation preventing device comprises an upper limb supporting member, an air bag and an attachment strap, wherein the upper limb supporting member and the air bag are connected together by the attachment strap, the upper limb supporting member comprises a forearm supporting pocket and a fixing sleeve, a forearm of a sufferer is fixed by the fixing sleeve, a glove for avoiding buckling of a palm, a second tightening strap and a first tightening strap forfixing an elbow joint are arranged in the forearm supporting pocket, the second tightening strap and a shoulder joint lifting strap perform lifting in a matched manner to strengthen external fixationof a shoulder joint and avoid dislocation of the shoulder joint, and the air bag is arranged at a position, located at margo vertebralis of a shoulder blade of the sufferer, of the attachment strap. The device has a supporting action on an upper limb of an affected side of the sufferer so as to correct the dislocation of the shoulder joint; meanwhile, a hand of the affected side is fixed to a neutral position through the glove, the fixing sleeve and the first tightening strap, the forearm of the affected side is fixed in a horizontal direction, a hand and a wrist are prevented from buckling, awrist joint, metacarpophalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints and the like are prevented from contracture malformation; and the air bag assists serratus anterior muscles and trapezius muscles to contract after inflation, so that the shoulder blade can be attached to a chest and is fixed, and a winged shoulder is avoided.

A cervicothoracic spine restorator is disclosed. In the cervicothoracic spine restorator, a fixing structure is further included, such that relaxation of muscles such as pectoralis major muscle, pectoralis minor muscle, rectus abdominis muscle, and trapezius muscle or latissimus dorsi muscle can be easily performed. Further, the blood vessel may be expanded and the blood may be supplied smoothly to the head. This may help recovery and correction during a short correction period. There is an advantage that a separate correction mechanism, which is used for spine correction such as a abdomen band, is unnecessary.

A device that is a lightweight, small, easily packable, hands-free accessory that improves how people carry shoulder bags is described. The device is a mechanism worn on the user's upper back that leaves the individual's hands free and enhances the ease of carrying shoulder bags. The device can be worn on bare shoulders, clothing and outerwear. The device helps to equalize the weight distribution of shoulder bags across the top of the trapezius muscle and allows for a less cumbersome commute via foot and public transportation.

The invention discloses a piano-holding assistor combining a cheek card and a shoulder hanger, wherein the piano-holding assistor comprises a shoulder hanger assembly and a cheek card; the shoulder hanger assembly comprises a supporting rod, a clamping head, a hanging arm and a supporting arm; the supporting rod is transversally set in left and right direction at a backboard at the back of the piano body; the clamping head is set at the left and the right end of the supporting rod; the left and the right clamping head clamp the left side plate and the right side plate of the piano tightly; the hanging arm is installed at the right end of the supporting rod by using at least one screw, and is set above the corresponding trapezius muscle; the supporting arm is installed in the middle of the supporting rod by using at least one screw and is set between the large deltoid muscle and the large chest muscle; and the cheek card is fixedly mounted on a panel at the tail of the piano body. By fixing the piano on the shoulder hanger assembly, the bad contact between the piano and the clavicle is avoided, and the burden of taking the left hand as the bridge pier to hold the piano is thoroughly eliminated, thereby obtaining absolute free for playing.

The invention relates to a joint motion estimation method based on a myoelectricity and myotone model and unscented particle filtering. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, acquiring surface myoelectricity and muscle sound signals of biceps brachii muscle, triceps brachii muscle, radial brachii muscle, trapezius muscle, adductor muscle, anterior deltoid muscle, lateral deltoid muscleand pectoralis major muscle of an upper limb shoulder joint and an elbow joint of a human body in a synchronous continuous motion state, and respectively performing band-pass filtering processing; then, extracting Wilson amplitude and fuzzy entropy features of the surface myoelectricity and myotone signals; combining the physiological muscle model and joint kinematics through parameter substitution and simplification to form a joint motion model, and forming a measurement equation by using the extracted features to serve as feedback of the joint motion model to obtain a myoelectricity myotonestate space model; and finally, estimating the synchronous continuous motion of the shoulder joint and the elbow joint through an unscented particle filter algorithm. Compared with a traditional multi-joint synchronous continuous motion estimation method, the method has the advantage that the prediction precision and the real-time performance are obviously improved.