Prevention of repetitive motion injury
OwnerFernando Mirandainventor
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Abstract
A method and device for preventing RMI (Repetitive Motion Injury). Studies in adult monkeys have shown that RMI is accompanied by remodeling of the primary somatosensory cortical areas of the brain. The results of this is degradation in the sensory feedback from the cerebral cortex which appears to block normal adjustments by the subject in position and frequency that would prevent RMI. A variable amplitude, variable frequency generator and mechanical transducer contained in a small package and housed in a bracelet is applied to the extremity of a subject to transmit varying frequency signals that prevent the degradation in sensory feedback and as a result also prevent the development of RMI.
Claims27
A device for the prevention of repetitive motion injury occurring in an extremity of an individual, comprising:
- (a) a signal generator for producing a variable frequency signal,
- (b) a transducer for accepting said variable frequency signal and translating it into mechanical vibrations at the frequency of said variable frequency signal, and
- (c) means for attaching said transducer to said extremity to transmit said variable frequency signal into said extremity to the nervous system of said individual for transmission through the nervous system of said individual to the portion of the brain of said individual which controls said extremity.
A method for the prevention of repetitive motion injury occurring in an extremity of an individual, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a signal generator for producing a variable frequency signal,
- (b) providing a transducer for accepting said variable frequency signal and translating it into mechanical vibrations at the frequency of said variable frequency signal, and
- (c) providing means for attaching said transducer to said extremity to transmit said variable frequency signal into said extremity to the nervous system of said individual for transmission through the nervous system of said individual to the portion of the brain of said individual which controls said extremity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.