RU190565U1 - Cube simulator with colored edges for practicing the restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory - Google Patents

Abstract

The useful model “Simulator-cube with colored faces for classes in restoring the movements of fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory” refers to medicine in the section of neurology and neuropsychology and can be used in the neurorehabilitation departments of neurological and neurosurgical clinics when conducting exercises on restoring movements of fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory in patients with a neurological clinic with organic lesions of the brain different etiology. The useful model contains a hollow body made of plastic (1), having the shape of a cube, in the center of each face of which is made a hollow cylindrical protrusion (2) with an external thread, and on the surface of each face there is a square plastic lining (3) in the center which made a through hole under the outer diameter of the cylindrical protrusion (2), and the plastic lining (3) have the same size and different color, and on each cylindrical protrusion (2) there is a plastic cork-plug (4), and all the plugs ki (4) differ from each other in color. Thus, the “simulator-cube” due to its design features allows to conduct classes on the simultaneous restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory with a wide contingent of patients in the neurological clinic, including patients with symbolic agnosia. The proposed “simulator-cube” introduces a novelty element into the process of rehabilitation classes with patients, turning them into an interesting and attractive training for patients.

Description

This utility model relates to medicine to the section of neurology and neuropsychology and can be used in the departments of neurorehabilitation of neurological and neurosurgical clinics when conducting classes on the restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory in patients with a neurological clinic.

Disturbance of the movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory occurs in patients with a neurological clinic as a result of organic brain lesions of various etiologies.

Disturbance of the movements of the fingers and the hand leads to difficulties in the performance by patients of various household actions that require precise, coordinated movements of the fingers and the hand.

To restore the movements of the fingers in patients with the neurological clinic, various simulators are used to ensure the inclusion of fingers in various movements, one of which is the rotation of the fingers of a small object.

So, from the existing level of technology known "Desktop simulator" Panel with nuts "", designed to restore the movement of the fingers with the help of exercises for tightening-unscrewing metal nuts on the screws with your fingers (online shop "MedLider" Hardware rehabilitation and physiotherapy, Desktop simulator "Panel with nuts", found on the Internet on 05/20/2019 at http://www.reab-ml.ru/index.php?page=products&pid=600).

Structurally, this simulator is a wooden three-stage base, dimensions 200 × 300 mm, at each step of which 4 metal screws with nuts of different sizes are installed. The total weight of the simulator is 1 kg.

The disadvantages of this simulator when using them in the course of classes on the restoration of the movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory are:

a) this simulator is designed for practicing restoring movements of the fingers and does not provide the possibility of full-fledged exercises for restoring movements of the hand;

b) this simulator is not intended for classes in the restoration of spatial perception and spatial memory;

c) the uniformity and monotony of the movements performed by the patient on tightening-unscrewing the nuts, which can lead to a decrease in interest in exercises and the rapid fatigue of patients;

d) the difficulty of performing these actions for patients who did not have previous experience screwing metal nuts on the screws, so this activity is unusual for them and therefore ineffective in restoring hand movements;

e) work with this simulator is possible only if there is a horizontal surface on which they should be installed.

Also from the current level of technology known device "Simulator-cube for classes in recovery: the movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and memory in patients of the neurological clinic" (Patent RU 181541 U1, publication date 07/19/2018).

Structurally, this device is a plastic cube, on each face of which there is a protrusion with thread, designed to wrap plastic plugs of different colors, and numbers are inscribed on the end surface of each protrusion.

Work with this device is carried out by various methods, one of which is that the patient needs to remember the image of the side projection of the device contained on the working card, then wrap corks of the corresponding color onto the body projections from memory.

Another method is that the patient winds colored plugs in random order on the protrusions, remembering the number of the protrusion and the corresponding color of the plug. After the winding up of all the plugs, the patient must unscrew them in the sequence specified by the specialist, for example, in direct order, starting with the stopper wound on the ledge with the first number and ending with the stopper wound on the ledge with the sixth number.

The disadvantages of this device when using it in the course of classes on the restoration of the movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory in patients with a neurological clinic are:

a) excessive simplicity of tasks for storing the image of the side projection of the device for patients with impaired spatial memory of mild degree;

b) the difficulty of performing tasks for patients with symbolic agnosia due to difficulties in perceiving the numbers located on the end surface of each protrusion.

In order to overcome the above disadvantages, a “Simulator-cube with colored edges for classes in restoring the movements of fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory” (hereinafter referred to as “simulator-cube”) has been developed.

The tasks to be addressed by the claimed technical solution are:

a) ensuring the possibility of conducting classes with neurological patients who have impaired mild spatial memory;

b) ensuring the possibility of conducting classes for patients with a neurological clinic with symbolic agnosia;

c) the actions performed by patients should simultaneously be directed both at restoring the movements of fingers and hand, and at restoring spatial perception and spatial memory;

d) ensuring the simplicity of the “cube-simulator” design, contributing to its widespread introduction into the practice of working with patients at a neurological clinic;

e) ensuring the compactness of the “cube-simulator” design for the realization of the possibility of conducting classes in various conditions.

The technical result of the claimed utility model is the extension of the functionality of the “Cube simulator for rehabilitation classes: finger and hand movements, spatial perception and memory in patients of the neurological clinic”, provided by the structural elements of the stated “cube simulator”, allowing to conduct classes simultaneous restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory with a wide contingent of patients with neurological clinics and, including patients with symbolic agnosia.

This technical result is ensured by the fact that the "cube simulator" contains a hollow body made of plastic, which has the shape of a cube, in the center of each face of which is made a hollow cylindrical protrusion with an external thread, and on the surface of each face there is a square plastic lining, in the center which made a through hole under the outer diameter of the cylindrical protrusion, and the plastic lining have the same size and different color, and a plastic cork is screwed on each cylindrical protrusion -fishka, with all the cork-chips differ from each other in color.

In the preferred embodiment of the simulator-cube, the size of each lining is similar to the size of the face of the body.

In the preferred embodiment of the simulator-cube, the color of the traffic jams correspond to the colors of the linings.

The essence of the utility model "Simulator-cube with colored edges for classes on the restoration of the movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory" is illustrated by the drawings, which depict:

FIG. 1 - a general view of the "cube simulator" without traffic jams.

FIG. 2 - “cube simulator” with twisted traffic jams.

FIG. 3 - an example of a work card for classes on the restoration of spatial perception using the "simulator-cube".

FIG. 4 shows an example of a work card for practicing spatial memory restoration using a “cube simulator”.

The inventive "cube simulator" is (see Fig. 1) a hollow body made of plastic (1), having the shape of a cube on the faces of which six hollow cylindrical protrusions (2) are made in the form of plastic bottle necks, and for example, by means of adhesive bonding) six square plastic lining of the same color (3) of different colors.

The following dimensions of this particular “cube simulator” are not signs narrowing the scope of legal protection, as they may change in the process of its creation.

The length of the edge of the body (1) "simulator-cube" is 50-60 mm, and its wall thickness is 2-3 mm.

Each cylindrical protrusion is located in the center of one of the faces of the body (1) and has an external thread designed to wrap plastic plugs (4) of different colors (see FIG. 2) during the sessions with the “cube simulator”.

The wall thickness of each cylindrical protrusion (2) is 2-3 mm, and its outer diameter and height are made under the threaded diameter and height of the existing 28 or 38 millimeter screw plastic stoppers from plastic bottles (YES-UPAK online store Packing-marking, PET caps, corks, caps for bottles, found 05/20/2019 in the Internet at http://yes-upak.ru/pet-krishki-probki-kolpachki-dlja-butylok.html).

The size of each lining (3) is similar to the size of the face of the body (1), its thickness is 4-7 mm, in the center of each lining (3) there is a through hole for the outer diameter of the cylindrical protrusion (2).

Trims (3) may have, for example, the following colors: green, yellow, red, blue, purple, brown.

Thus, the design features of the “simulator-cube” (see FIG. 1) allow the simultaneous perception of the color of the five plates (3) attached to the edges of the body (1).

The existing screw plastic plugs from plastic bottles, the diameter of which corresponds to the threaded diameter of the cylindrical protrusions (2), are used as cork chips (4) in the work with the “cube simulator”. At the same time, traffic jams (4) have six different colors that correspond to the colors of the lining (3) of the casing (1) of the “simulator-cube”.

In the course of training with the “cube simulator”, work cards (5) are used, which are used to restore spatial perception (see Fig. 3) and spatial memory (see Fig. 4).

To restore spatial perception, work cards (5) are used, containing an image (6a) of a cube sweep (see Fig. 3) consisting of squares, some of which are highlighted in color, and the other part - in color circles, the color of which corresponds to the color of overlays (3) and traffic jams (4).

To restore the spatial memory, working cards (5) are used that contain an image (6b) of the side view of the “simulator cube” (see Fig. 4) with plugs on the cylindrical protrusions.

For storage and carrying "simulator-cube" with a set of work cards used cover made of fabric material (not shown in the figures).

The “Simulator-cube with colored edges for classes on restoring the movements of fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory” works as follows.

Before starting a class using the “cube simulator”, the patient holds the “cube simulator” in a healthy hand, and unscrews plugs (4) from the cylindrical protrusions (2) with a hand with impaired motions (restoration of the movements of the fingers). At the same time, for the convenience of unscrewing the traffic jams (4), the patient needs to turn the “simulator-cube”, including in this process the hand with movement disorders (restoration of hand movements).

If the exercise is aimed at restoring spatial perception, the patient receives from the specialist a work card (5) designed to work with spatial perception (see Fig. 3), after which he sequentially twists (restoration of finger movements) cork chips (4) different colors on the cylindrical protrusions (2) of the “simulator-cube” located on the faces of a certain color in accordance with the arrangement of the squares highlighted in color or colored circles on the image (6a) of the cube sweep (restoring transitive perception), while turning the "simulator-cube" with a hand with a violation of movements (restoration of movements of the hand).

After completing the task, the patient twists all the traffic jams (4) from the cylindrical projections (2) of the “cube simulator” (restoration of the movements of the fingers and hand) and the above-described sequence of actions is repeated using a different work card (5) specified by the specialist the number of times.

Classes for the restoration of spatial perception can be carried out without the use of work cards. In this case, the specialist draws a six-square cube scan in the patient's workbook, highlighting certain squares in color or colored circles. The sequence of actions of the patient is similar to that described above.

If the lesson is aimed at restoring spatial memory, the patient receives from the specialist a work card (5) designed for working with spatial memory (see Fig. 4), and for a time specified by the specialist (15 seconds or more) remembers the image ( 6b) of the side view of the “cube simulator”, after which it closes this work card (5) with a blank sheet of paper.

Next, the patient from memory (restoration of spatial memory) winds plugs (4) of different colors (restoration of finger movements) onto cylindrical projections (2) of the “simulator-cube” located on its colored faces in accordance with the memorized image (6b) of the lateral projection "Simulator-cube" (see Fig. 4), while turning the "simulator-cube" with a hand with a violation of movements (restoration of movements of the hand).

Lastly, the patient winds on the cylindrical protrusion (2) the remaining cork-plug (4), which is not visible in the image (6b) of the side view of the “simulator-cube”.

If a patient has difficulty in determining the location of a cork-chip (4) of a certain color, he can briefly lift a sheet of paper covering the work card (5), thus obtaining a hint.

After completing the task, the patient twists all the traffic jams (4) from the cylindrical projections (2) of the “cube simulator” (restoration of the movements of the fingers and hand) and the above-described sequence of actions is repeated using a different work card (5) specified by the specialist the number of times.

Classes for the restoration of spatial memory can be carried out without the use of work cards. In this case, the specialist calls the sequence consisting of several pairs of words denoting the names of the colors in which the first word indicates the color of the plug (4), and the other word - the color of the face of the body (1) of the “simulator-cube”, for example, “blue - red "," yellow-green "," purple-yellow ", etc.

The patient should try to memorize this sequence, and then in accordance with the memorized image, screw the plug plugs (4) onto the cylindrical projections (2), for example, twist the blue plug (4) onto the cylindrical ledge (2) located on the verge of red.

Along with recovery classes: finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory, the “cube simulator” can be used in the following cases:

a) when conducting neurocognitive trainings with elderly and senile people with impaired movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory;

b) when conducting remedial developmental activities with children who have violations of the formation of small movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and spatial memory;

c) as a game aimed at the development and training of small movements of the fingers and hand, spatial perception and memory in healthy children.

Thus, the “simulator-cube”, due to its design features, allows conducting classes on the simultaneous restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory with a wide contingent of patients at a neurological clinic, including patients with symbolic agnosia.

The proposed “simulator-cube” introduces a novelty element into the process of rehabilitation classes with patients, turning them into an interesting and attractive training for patients.

Claims (3)

1. A cube simulator with colored edges for practicing the restoration of finger and hand movements, spatial perception and spatial memory, characterized in that it contains a hollow body made of plastic, having a cube shape, in the center of each face of which is a hollow cylindrical protrusion with an outer thread, and on the surface of each face is fixed square plastic lining, in the center of which is a through hole for the outer diameter of the cylindrical protrusion, and plastic lining hav e the same size and different color, and on each protrusion is wound cylindrical plastic tube-piece, wherein all chips tube differ from each other in color. 2. Simulator-cube under item 1, characterized in that the size of each lining is similar to the size of the face of the body. 3. The cube simulator according to claim 1, characterized in that the colors of the traffic jams correspond to the colors of the overlays.

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