Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1995-03-22
1996-10-08
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
607 48, A61N 136
Patent
active
055627072
ABSTRACT:
A non-invasive self-contained functional electrical stimulation garment is disclosed. The garment, which is preferably in the form of a glove, may be donned in one piece by a user of reduced motor ability e.g. a person exhibiting hand tremors or who is a quadriplegic, paraplegic or hemiplegic. The garment is preferably made of a perforated elastic material and being adapted to fit over a part of said user's body. The garment has electrical connections internal to the garment that are adapted to make electrical contact with self-adhesive skin electrodes on the user. A joint movement sensor and a battery-driven electronic controller-stimulator located on the garment, with the electrical connections, sensor and controller-stimulator being electrically and cooperatively interconnected. In the form of a glove, the garment can permit a user of reduced motor ability to grip objects.
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Gauthier Michel J. A.
Kenwell Zoltan R.
Prochazka Arthur
Wieler Marguerite
Getzow Scott M.
Kamm William E.
Sim & McBurney
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