System and methods for treating or supporting human joints or a portion of the human body

A method comprising:

• providing a system for treating a human joint or body part of a patient, the system comprising:
• a good comprising:
• a sensor in contact with human tissues of a patient and configured to obtain a power dissipation of human tissues, and
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon a program for execution by a processor;
• and
• a control unit in communication with the good to form an electrical muscular stimulation (EMS) system that uses feedback in a closed loop manner to self tune electrical properties of output, the control unit configured to instruct the sensor to (a) apply a sense pulse to the human tissues, (b) measure power dissipation of the sense pulse, (c) adjust a stimulation pulse based on the measured power dissipation, (d) apply the stimulation pulse to the human tissues based on the power dissipation and based on the program in order to maintain constant power output across each pulse, and (e) repeat steps (a)-(d).

A control unit for controlling a brace for treating a human joint or body part of a patient, the control unit comprising:

• a processor;
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon a control program and for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
• receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving, from a sensor in contact with human tissues of the patient, a power dissipation of the human tissues;
• communication logic executed by the processor for communicating with the sensor to form an electrical muscular stimulation (EMS) system that uses feedback in a closed loop manner to self tune electrical properties of output, the communication logic configured to instruct the sensor to (a) apply a sense pulse to the human tissues, (b) measure power dissipation of the sense pulse, (c) adjust a stimulation pulse based on the measured power dissipation, (d) apply the stimulation pulse to the human tissues based on the power dissipation and based on the program in order to maintain constant power output across each pulse, and (e) repeat steps (a)-(d).