Recovery determination methods and recovery determination apparatuses

• US 8,602,988 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2010
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Recovery Science And Technology, LLC
• Inventors: Hunt, Jeff, Weatherly-White, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Natnithithadha, Navin
• Assistant Examiner(s): WEARE, MEREDITH H
• Application Number:
  US12/698,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20110190645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 600/500, 482 1- 9
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

Recovery determination methods and recovery determination apparatuses are described. According to one aspect, a recovery determination method includes accessing an input for a recovery marker which corresponds to a characteristic of an individual, wherein the input comprises data pertinent to the individual for the recovery marker while the individual is at rest following a period of exercise by the individual, processing the data of the individual for the recovery marker, and determining recovery information which is indicative of a state of recovery of the individual using the processing.

Claims

1. A recovery determination method comprising:

accessing a plurality of inputs for a plurality of different recovery markers which correspond to a plurality of different characteristics of an individual, wherein the inputs comprise data pertinent to the individual for the respective recovery markers while the individual is at rest following a period of exercise by the individual;

using processing circuitry, processing the data of the individual for the recovery markers including weighting the data for the different recovery markers differently corresponding to different predictive reliabilities of the different recovery markers as being indicative of fatigue of the individual; and

using processing circuitry, determining recovery information which is indicative of a state of recovery of the individual using the processing of the data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining recovery information comprises calculating a recovery score which indicates one of a plurality of different states of recovery for the individual.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the accessed inputs is based upon a self-assessed subjective opinion of the individual with respect to themselves at a moment in time when the state of recovery is to be determined.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the processing comprises, using the data for the different recovery markers, determining a plurality of marker scores which correspond to respective ones of the different recovery markers using a plurality of different weightings which correspond to the different predictive reliabilities of the different recovery markers as being indicative of fatigue of the individual, and wherein the determining comprises determining a recovery score using the marker scores.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising generating a visual representation of the recovery score and an individual one of the marker scores.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the visual representation depicts contributions of the marker scores to the recovery score.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising, using the determined recovery information, proposing a plan regarding training of the individual in the future.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the accessed inputs comprises a number of heart beats for one of the recovery markers which is a resting heart rate for the individual.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the weighting comprises weighting the data of one of the recovery markers to contribute an increased amount to the recovery information compared with weighting the data of another of the recovery markers as a result of the one recovery marker having an increased predictive reliability as being indicative of fatigue of the individual compared with the another recovery marker.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising selecting the different recovery markers based upon the predictive reliabilities of the different recovery markers as being indicative of fatigue of the individual.

11. A recovery determination method comprising:

accessing a plurality of inputs for respective ones of a plurality of different recovery markers which correspond to respective ones of a plurality of different characteristics of an individual, wherein the inputs comprise data pertinent to the individual for respective ones of the recovery markers;

using processing circuitry, processing the data for the respective ones of the recovery markers including weighting the data for the different recovery markers differently corresponding to different predictive reliabilities of the different recovery markers as being indicative of fatigue of the individual;

using the processing, determining recovery information regarding a state of recovery of the individual; and

wherein the data of one of the recovery markers comprises objectively measured data, and the determining comprises combining the objectively measured data with data of another of the recovery markers which is a subjective opinion of the individual.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the inputs comprise the data regarding the individual at a moment in time when the individual is at rest following a period of exercise.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the recovery markers are different indicators of fatigue in the individual.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the data of the one recovery marker is indicative of a percentage increase of a resting heart rate for the individual over a baseline of the resting heart rate for the individual.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the determining the recovery information comprises determining without the use of any data which was acquired during sleep of the individual.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein the data of the another recovery marker is indicative of a well-being of the individual.

17. A recovery determination apparatus comprising:

an interface configured to receive a plurality of inputs for a plurality of different recovery markers which correspond to a plurality of characteristics of an individual, wherein the inputs comprise data pertinent to the individual for the recovery markers while the individual is at rest following a period of exercise by the individual; and

processing circuitry coupled with the interface and configured to;

access the data for the recovery markers;

process the data for the recovery markers; and

using a result of the processing, determine recovery information which is indicative of a state of recovery of the individual; and

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to process the data for the different recovery markers by weighting the data for the different recovery markers differently corresponding to different predictive reliabilities of the different recovery markers as being indicative of fatigue of the individual.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the processing circuitry is configured to use the data for the different recovery markers to determine a plurality of marker scores for respective ones of the different recovery markers and to determine a recovery score using the plurality of marker scores.

19. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the interface receives the data for the different recovery markers which pertain to a moment in time when the individual is at rest following the period of exercise by the individual.