US 2021/0187350 A1Published application

Kinoped lower extremity performance improvement, injury prevention, and rehabilitation system

AssigneeAndre Foucault

InventorsAndre Foucault, Dan Niccum, Philippe Morin

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Abstract

A ground-effect footplate against which a user applies plantar force and moves their foot in 3D across all seven lower-extremity biomechanical axes to accomplish specific as well as global ambulatory objectives related to lower extremity performance improvement, injury prevention and rehabilitation. A device comprising at least one articulating leg connected to a ground-effect footplate and a surface for a user to position against. The device can be used in conjunction with software to create virtual ambulatory environments that mimic GRFVs and cause moments of force that initiate muscular activations that substantially mimic human ambulation, and can couple those movements with non-functional movements in order to improve ROM, speed, strength, and proprioception.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A foot-operated functional game controller that is used to develop a user's lower extremity speed, strength, endurance, range of motion, proprioception, and control during use, comprising:

a footplate connected to or positioned in opposition to a surface that stabilizes the pelvis of a user and allows for a functional range of motion of the lower extremity;
a resistance mechanism that provides simulated gravitational values and inertial values to the footplate in 3D throughout a functional range of motion, wherein the simulated gravitational values and inertial values can be varied to mimic multiple lower extremity performance environments;
a virtual performance environment, providing a landscape over which the user can navigate by control of the footplates through simulated ambulation or other functional and non-functional motions;
and
visual patterns that guide the user in navigating the virtual performance environment by applying plantar force against the footplate in 3D.

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Facts

Application: 17/195,577Filed 8 Mar 2021
Priority: 5 Sep 2019
Published: 24 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification32 codes

A63B 22/0605
With support elements performing a rotating cycling movement, i.e. a closed path movement: performing a circular movement, e.g. ergometers
A63B 23/0429
Involving a bending of the knee and hip joints simultaneously: with guided foot supports moving parallel to the body-symmetrical-plane by being…
A63B 21/00181
Exercising apparatus for developing or strengthening the muscles or joints of the body by working against a counterforce, with or without…:…
A63B 21/0085
Using hydraulic or pneumatic force-resisters: using pneumatic force-resisters

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