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US 12,765,823 B2Granted
Wearable muscle tissue tensiometer with bilateral work and power measurement
AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorsDarryl Gerard Thelen, Jack Anthony Martin, Sara Elizabeth Harper, Peter Gabriel Adamczyk, Kelly Peregrine
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Abstract
A wearable tensiometer integrates patient-worn muscle tissue tensiometery and motion tracking to enable real-time energy measurement for an individual's full gait cycle outside of a laboratory environment.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to provide a measure of muscle tension of a muscle tissue over a period of time of muscle exercise;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to provide a measure of muscle tissue extension during the period of time of muscle exercise;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine the measure of muscle tension and the measure of muscle tissue extension to provide an output indicating muscle tissue energy usage based on an area under a curve described by the measure of muscle tension as a function of the measure of muscle tissue extension.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to measure tension of a muscle tissue;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to measure muscle tissue extension;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine tension measures and the muscle tissue extension measures to provide outputs indicating muscle tissue energy usage;
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- wherein the tensiometer is a shear wave tensiometer deducing tension from a monitoring of shear wave speed through the muscle tissue.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to measure tension of a muscle tissue;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to measure muscle tissue extension;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine tension measures and the muscle tissue extension measures to provide outputs indicating muscle tissue energy usage;
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- further including at least two tensiometers attachable to a left and right side limb of the individual to measure tension of muscle tissue, respectively, of the left and right side limbs and wherein the motion tracker operates to separately determine a muscle tissue extension of the respective muscle tissue of the left and right side limbs and wherein the electronic computer provides an output comparing muscle tissue associated energy usage for the left and right limbs.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to measure tension of a muscle tissue;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to measure muscle tissue extension;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine tension measures and the muscle tissue extension measures to provide outputs indicating muscle tissue energy usage;
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- further including at least two tensiometers attachable to a first and second side of a joint of a limb of the individual and wherein the motion tracker operates to separately determine a muscle tissue extension of muscle tissue on the first and second sides of the limb and wherein the electronic computer provides an output comparing muscle tissue associated energy usage of the muscle tissue on the first and second sides of the limb.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to measure tension of a muscle tissue;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to measure muscle tissue extension;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine tension measures and the muscle tissue extension measures to provide outputs indicating muscle tissue energy usage;
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- further including at least two tensiometers attachable, respectively, to first and second different muscle tissues and wherein the motion tracker operates to measure muscle tissue extension for the first and second different muscle tissues and wherein the electronic computer provides an output indicating a time phase relationship between the energy usage of the first and second muscle tissues.
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A kinetics monitoring system comprising:
- a tensiometer attachable to an individual to measure tension of a muscle tissue;
- a motion tracker attachable to an individual to measure muscle tissue extension;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the tensiometer and the motion tracker to combine tension measures and the muscle tissue extension measures to provide outputs indicating muscle tissue energy usage;
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- wherein the tensiometer includes a flexible sheet supporting in separation a shear wave actuator for imparting a shear wave to a proximate muscle tissue and at least one shear wave sensor spaced from the shear wave actuator for measuring an arrival of the shear wave at the proximate sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.