Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for gravity like simulation of natural balance movements
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Application No.: US14244386Application Date: 2014-04-03
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Publication No.: US08851897B1Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Lars I. E. Oddsson
- Applicant: Lars I. E. Oddsson
- Applicant Address: US MN Edina
- Assignee: Lars I. E. Oddsson
- Current Assignee: Lars I. E. Oddsson
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Edina
- Agency: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
- Agent Barbara A. Wrigley
- Main IPC: G09B9/00
- IPC: G09B9/00 ; A63B21/00

Abstract:
We present a tool that can enhance the concept of BWS training by allowing natural APAs to occur mediolaterally. While in a supine position in a 90 degree tilted environment built around a modified hospital bed, subjects wear a backpack frame that is freely moving on air-hearings, as a puck on an air hockey table, and attached through a cable to a pneumatic cylinder that provides a load that can be set to emulate various G-like loads. Veridical visual input is provided through two 3-D automultiscopic displays that allow glasses free 3-D vision representing a virtual surrounding environment that may be acquired from sites chosen by the patient. Two groups of 12 healthy subjects were exposed to either strength training alone or a combination of strength and balance training in such a tilted environment over a period of four weeks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140274624A1 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GRAVITY LIKE SIMULATION OF NATURAL BALANCE MOVEMENTS Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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