Assembly for functional electrical stimulation during movement

Details Assembly for functional electrical stimulation during movement Assembly for functional electrical stimulation during movement

A - Human Necessities

61

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A61N 1/36 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2232672

The assembly comprises a band, mountable on the leg, carrying all of the components of the assembly to provide a self-contained unit. The components comprise: electrodes for stimulating a leg nerve; a V-shaped plate for conforming with the leg's tibia to reproducibly position the band so that the electrodes are located over the nerve; a tilt sensor for measuring the angular position of the lower leg; a control circuit for processing the sensor signal information and emitting pulses through the electrodes to stimulate the leg in response to phases of body movement; and a battery for supplying power to the tilt sensor, control circuit and stimulator. By comparing the assembly's stimulation states against a known template defining optimal stimulation states, stimulation threshold parameters can be fine tuned without the need for repeated trial and error testing by the user.

L'ensemble décrit comporte une bande, montable sur la jambe, comportant tous les composants de l'ensemble, qui constitue ainsi une unité autonome. Ces composants sont des électrodes servant à stimuler un nerf de la jambe, une plaque en V s'adaptant au tibia permettant de placer la bande de façon répétée de sorte que les électrodes soient placées au-dessus du nerf; un capteur d'inclinaison mesurant la position angulaire de la partie inférieure de la jambe; un circuit de commande traitant les informations des signaux du capteur et émettant des impulsions par les électrodes pour stimuler la jambe en réaction aux phases du mouvement du corps, et une pile alimentant en courant le capteur d'inclinaison, le circuit de commande et le stimulateur. En comparant les états de stimulation de l'ensemble avec un modèle connu définissant des états de stimulation optimum, on peut régler avec précision des paramètres de seuil de stimulation sans procédure d'essai par tâtonnements de la part de l'utilisateur.

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