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EP1369146A1
EP1369146A1 EP02405460A EP02405460A EP1369146A1 EP 1369146 A1 EP1369146 A1 EP 1369146A1 EP 02405460 A EP02405460 A EP 02405460A EP 02405460 A EP02405460 A EP 02405460A EP 1369146 A1 EP1369146 A1 EP 1369146A1
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Priority to CA002485637A priority patent/CA2485637A1/fr
Priority to US10/518,744 priority patent/US20050237209A1/en
Priority to AT03724758T priority patent/ATE306972T1/de
Priority to DE60301966T priority patent/DE60301966T8/de
Priority to EP03724758A priority patent/EP1511540B1/de
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B23/00—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for particular parts of the body
    • A63B23/02—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for particular parts of the body for the abdomen, the spinal column or the torso muscles related to shoulders (e.g. chest muscles)
    • A63B23/0244—Exercising apparatus specially adapted for particular parts of the body for the abdomen, the spinal column or the torso muscles related to shoulders (e.g. chest muscles) with signalling or indicating means, e.g. of incorrect posture, for deep-breathing exercises

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  • the present invention relates to a device intended to be applied to a person to detect and memorize certain postures such as bending and exaggerated extension of the trunk.
  • the wearer of such a device can thus improve his gestural awareness and therefore prevent one of the main causes of back pain: movements exaggerated forwards and backwards of the trunk when standing.
  • Back pain is one of the major pathologies of our society.
  • the mode of sedentary life leads to a loss of kinesthetic (common sense), which makes it incapable to feel precisely the physiologically permitted postures.
  • kinesthetic common sense
  • the discomfort and expense caused by these back pain is of concern and requires, more than ever, a policy preventive reinforced with technical means.
  • patent WO 96/17548 refers to a housing applied to the level of the wearer's spines. When the latter leans, the pressure exerted by the thorns on the support zones of the device allows to override some kind of switch and thus trigger an alarm. The areas concerned are therefore obviously restricted and the movements of life current quickly move the case, which is no longer effective.
  • the document WO 90/07360 describes an apparatus one side of which is intended to be leaning against the body. Part of this face is cut to form a control plate. When this plate is pressed beyond a threshold determined, it activates a vibration generator constituting an alarm Touch. The setting of the triggering threshold is however difficult and does not does not correspond precisely to certain postures.
  • the present invention provides an inexpensive device capable of signaling a poor posture of the wearer, the detection threshold can be defined with precision by a therapist. In addition, its installation and use does not provide no discomfort in the daily movements of a user normal.
  • the inclinometer used is an accelerometer.
  • the device has an interface allowing, using push buttons, to memorize the two limit values of the angle of inclination in the computer.
  • the signaling means advantageously comprise, on the one hand, a light and / or acoustic and / or vibrating alarm and, on the other hand, an external readable memory comprising a plurality of affected registers in successive time slices grouping a plurality of cycles, the computer then programmed to account in each of these registers, i.e. the exceedances of the front and rear limit values observed at each of the cycles of the current time slot, i.e. the maximum value of exceedances of the front and rear limit values observed during this section of time.
  • said cycles and said time slots have a duration 100 ms and 15 minutes respectively.
  • FIGS. 1a and 1b the device according to the invention is shown at 10, installed on the sternum of a carrier. It is held in place by a belt chest 12 produced by means of an elastic band the length of which is adjustable with a buckle.
  • Figure 1a is a side view of the wearer in different positions. We will call ⁇ the angle made by the device 10, with respect to the vertical, when it is applied against the sternum.
  • the wearer In the center, the wearer stands straight, heels, buttocks, shoulder blades and head resting against a vertical, which corresponds to a reference posture for the trunk.
  • the angle ⁇ then has the reference value ⁇ 0 .
  • the therapist determines the front limit, corresponding to an angle ⁇ 1, from which repeated overshoots would be harmful over time.
  • the therapist determines the rear limit, corresponding to an angle ⁇ 2 , from which repeated overshoots would also be harmful over time.
  • the device 10 essentially comprises a inclinometer 26 providing a signal representative of the angle of inclination ⁇ , a microprocessor 28 for receiving and processing this signal, a type memory EEPROM 30 associated with the microprocessor, the interface 14, already mentioned, and a connector 32 making it possible to connect the microprocessor and the memory to a computer 34.
  • the inclinometer 26 is, in fact, an accelerometer, such as that sold under the reference ADXL202EB by the firm Analog Device. It produces tension proportional to the sine of the angle of inclination ⁇ .
  • the microprocessor is, by example, the PIC16F873 model from Microchip clocked at 32 kHz.
  • the use of the device according to the invention implies that its microprocessor 28 has previously recorded the limit angles ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 .
  • the operation can be carried out with a therapist who invites the person to lean forward or backward until reaching the position that the practitioner considers as limit. At this point, the therapist only has to press the two buttons 18 and 20 simultaneously and then, for example, press the button 18 or the button 20 so that, respectively, the angle ⁇ 1 or the angle ⁇ 2 is memorized in microprocessor 28. Since this technique is well known to those skilled in the art for many fields of application, it will not be described here in more detail.
  • the microprocessor 28 is programmed to observe the behavior of the carrier in 15-minute increments and, within each tranche, perform cyclically the operations shown in Figure 3. Typically, the cycle period is 100 ms.
  • the first operation 36 is the measurement of the angle ⁇ from the signal delivered by the inclinometer 26.
  • the system determines, at 38, whether ⁇ is less than ⁇ 1 or greater than ⁇ 2 .
  • the system increments by one, at 44, the register of the memory 30 allocated, for the 15-minute period in progress, to the accounting, as the case may be, for exceeding the front limit or the rear limit.
  • the next operation is, then, in 46, the engagement of the alarms 22 and / or 24 and / or 25 which signal the wearer of a posture error. The cycle therefore ends.
  • the alarms are not stopped but, on the contrary, the signals transmitted go on amplifying.
  • the device according to the invention can remain several days on the person and thus record, every 15 minutes, the number of overstepping, forward or backward, of the posture limits set by the therapist. During the night, the device can be deactivated by a function of pause.
  • the therapist connects it to computer 34 which can provide, in the form of a table or graph, the number of threshold crossings, forward and backward, occurred by 15-minute increments throughout the observation period, with, in addition, the breaks.
  • This histogram is very useful for specifying the etiology of the condition and teach what preventive measures should be considered.
  • the system could provide the maximum value of the overshoots front and rear limit values, for each reference time slot.
  • the microprocessor of so that the wearer is warned when he approaches, typically, unless four degrees, front and rear limits.
  • the alarms emit a different signal (for example, weaker) than that emitted in the event of exceeded.
  • the histogram obtained may also show the actual use of the device by the wearer. We could, for example, predict that the memory of a larger size, can record, at a fixed frequency, either the number of overshoots, but all the angle values, which will allow to detect that the device has been placed without the pause being activated.

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EP02405460A EP1369146A1 (de) 2002-06-07 2002-06-07 Anzeiger der Körperlage
AU2003229225A AU2003229225A1 (en) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Posture detector
PCT/CH2003/000332 WO2003103780A1 (fr) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Detecteur de posture
CA002485637A CA2485637A1 (fr) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Detecteur de posture
US10/518,744 US20050237209A1 (en) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Posture detector
AT03724758T ATE306972T1 (de) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Anzeiger der körperlage
DE60301966T DE60301966T8 (de) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Anzeiger der körperlage
EP03724758A EP1511540B1 (de) 2002-06-07 2003-05-27 Anzeiger der körperlage

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WO2003103780A1 (fr) 2003-12-18
AU2003229225A1 (en) 2003-12-22
DE60301966T8 (de) 2006-11-23
US20050237209A1 (en) 2005-10-27
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CA2485637A1 (fr) 2003-12-18

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