公开(公告)号：US20240216741A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18557720

申请日：2022-04-27

Applicant: c/o ERMI LLC

Inventor： Thomas P. Branch ,  Shaun Kevin Stinton ,  Edward Dittmar ,  Matei Dan ,  Garrick Edward Dittmar ,  Jared Alexander Dittmar

IPC: A63B21/00 ,  A61H1/02

CPC classification number: A63B21/00181 ,  A61H1/0281 ,  A61H2201/0107 ,  A61H2201/0149 ,  A61H2201/0192 ,  A61H2201/1215 ,  A61H2201/1638 ,  A61H2201/1676 ,  A61H2203/0431

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to devices and methods for providing shoulder forward flexion, abduction, external rotation, and internal rotation stretch assistance. A device for manipulating an arm of a user, thereby providing abduction or flexion assistance to a shoulder of the user includes an engagement mechanism configured to operatively couple with the user's arm and configured to pivot about an axis defined by the gleno-humeral joint of the shoulder as the shoulder abducts or flexes; a scapular restriction mechanism restricts movement of a scapula of the user's shoulder during a first phase of abduction or flexion and to move in an anatomically correct ratio with gleno-humeral motion during a second phase of abduction or flexion; and a force application system operatively coupled with the engagement mechanism, and configured to apply a force to the engagement mechanism, providing the abduction or flexion assistance to the arm about the shoulder.