US 12,453,489 B2
Electronic equipment for the treatment and care of living beings
Alan Chamberlain, Lancaster (GB); Nigel John Walker, Penrith (GB); and Stephen Aubrey Clark, Penrith (GB)
Assigned to Tintro Limited, Penrith (GB)
Filed by Tintro Limited, Penrith (GB)
Filed on May 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 15/930,862.
Application 15/930,862 is a continuation of application No. 15/568,528, abandoned, previously published as PCT/GB2016/051123, filed on Apr. 22, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 1506810 (GB), filed on Apr. 22, 2015; application No. 1604925 (GB), filed on Mar. 23, 2016; and application No. 1606860 (GB), filed on Apr. 20, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0315497 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/1121 (2013.01) [A61B 5/11 (2013.01); A61B 5/4566 (2013.01); A61B 5/6804 (2013.01); A61B 5/1114 (2013.01); A61B 5/112 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0204 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A goniometry method for obtaining data regarding range of movement and resistance in a joint of a patient, for use in the treatment and care of living beings, the method comprising:
i) providing first and second electronic sensing devices, each attachable to a part of a patient's body, and each of the first and second electronic sensing devices comprising:
a) an electrical power source;
b) at least one of an accelerometer, a magnetometer, or a gyroscope;
c) a memory to record information relating to a measured parameter and store it or to compute a net reading and store it, for downloading and/or transmission to a separate receiving unit; and
d) a force sensor to monitor and record the force applied to the first and second electronic sensing device; and
ii) providing a receiving unit adapted to receive readings from the first and second electronic sensing devices; and
iii) providing computer circuitry to collate, analyse and display results of an analysis of a net reading from the first and second electronic sensing devices;
iv) attaching the first sensing device to a part of the patient's body on a first side of the joint;
v) attaching the second electronic sensing device to a part of the patient's body on a second side of the joint;
vi) manipulating a patient's appendage with the computer circuitry by applying an amount of input force to the patient's appendage;
vii) measuring with the force sensor the amount of input force applied to the manipulated patient's appendage;
viii) determining the relative movement between the first electronic sensing device and the second electronic sensing device caused by the measured amount of input force; and
viv) recording the determined relative movement and the measured amount of input force.