US 12,214,197 B2
Apparatus for management of a Parkinson's disease patient's gait
Gearóid Ó Laighin, Galway (IE); Leo Quinlan, County Galway (IE); Dean Sweeney, County Donegal (IE); Gavin Corley, County Clare (IE); James Feehilly, Galway (IE); and Patrick Browne, County Galway (IE)
Assigned to National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway (IE)
Filed by NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY, Galway (IE)
Filed on Nov. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/535,920.
Application 17/535,920 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/938,606, filed on Jul. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,672,984.
Application 16/938,606 is a continuation of application No. 15/566,967, granted, now 10,744,324, issued on Aug. 18, 2020, previously published as PCT/EP2016/058341, filed on Apr. 15, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15163987 (EP), filed on Apr. 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0118256 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61H 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36067 (2013.01) [A61H 3/00 (2013.01); A61N 1/36003 (2013.01); A61H 2003/007 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5023 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5079 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5084 (2013.01); A61H 2230/105 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. A gait management apparatus comprising:
at least one cueing actuator comprising at least one stimulation apparatus configured to be disposed at one or more cueing sites on each side of a patient's body to provide bilateral stimulation;
a memory for storing a non-transitory computer program;
a motion sensing system including one or more motion sensing elements, configured to detect motion of the patient; and
a controller programmed to execute the program stored in the memory to allow the controller to activate cueing, wherein the at least one cueing actuator, the memory, and the controller are in electrical contact; and
wherein the controller is programmed to:
determine movement of a leg of the patient during a current stride; and
activate cueing customized to the patient, in response to signals received from the motion sensing system, to provide stimulation to a contralateral arm of the patient, to enable a timing relationship between the movement of the contralateral arm of the patient with movement of the leg of the patient.