Systems and methods for administering an exercise program

• US 9,084,912 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2011
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Performance Health Systems, LLC
• Original Assignee: Performance Health Systems, LLC
• Inventors: Jaquish, John Paul, Jaquish, Paul Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): RICHMAN, GLENN E
• Application Number:
  US13/091,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20120040799A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,553 Days
• Field of Search: 482 1- 9, 482/51, 482900-902, 434247-259, 7337901-37903, 601/23
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00047 Exercising devices not moving during use benches A63B21/4029; isometric exercising devices A63B21/0023; step exercisers A63B23/0458; walk exercisers A63B23/0464
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0023 for isometric exercising, i.e. substantial force variation without substantial muscle motion
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4035 for operation by hand
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/51 Force
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/58 Measurement of force related parameters by electric or magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/62 Time or time measurement used for time reference, time stamp, master time or clock signal
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/833 Sensors arranged on the exercise apparatus or sports implement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/02 Testing, calibrating or measuring of equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/096 automatically adjusted according to anthropometric data of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/15 with identification means that can be read by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03525 Supports for both feet or both hands performing simultaneously the same movement, e.g. single pedal or single handle A63B21/0724 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0355 A single apparatus used for either upper or lower limbs, i.e. with a set of support elements driven either by the upper or the lower limb or limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03558 Compound apparatus having multiple stations allowing an user to exercise different limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/1209 Involving a bending of elbow and shoulder joints simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• 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: A63B 71/0054 Features for injury prevention on an apparatus, e.g. shock absorbers mats or the like for absorbing shocks for jumping A63B6/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 : relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 : Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 : at the transport layer

Abstract

An exercise machine includes loading contact surfaces. An actuator is configured to adjust a position of the loading contact surface. A user controls the actuator through a user interface to adjust the loading contact surface'"'"'s position in a first exercise session. A processor is configured to automatically monitor the loading contact surface'"'"'s position as adjusted by the user in the first exercise session, and to automatically control the actuator to move the loading contact surface in a subsequent session to the same or a different position as in the previous session.

Claims

1. A method of treating a disease or condition in a subject in need of treatment, the method comprising:

(A) developing one or more exercise constraints as a function of the medical health information of the subject, including a state of the disease or condition;

(B) having the subject perform a plurality of fully contracted exercises using exercise equipment, thereby producing an exercise result, wherein said exercise equipment has one or more strain gauges in order to impose or monitor exercise constraints in the one or more exercise constraints;

(C) imposing a mandatory recovery period for said subject after step (B) during which time said subject does not perform the plurality of fully contracted exercises; and

(D) having the subject repeat steps (B) and (C) using a new set of one or more exercise constraints that were refined based upon the exercise result of a previous instance of step (B), thereby treating the disease.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is metabolic syndrome.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a deconditioned state.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is osteoporosis or osteopenia.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a condition, and wherein the condition is susceptibility to injury.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is diabetes.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a condition, wherein the condition is pain.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is non-specific chronic lower back pain.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is fibromyaligia.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a condition, wherein the condition is obesity.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is Parkinson'"'"'s disease or Multiple Sclerosis.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a condition, wherein the condition is lower back pain.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a condition, wherein the condition is a sports injury.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the disease or condition is a brain disorder.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein an exercise constraint in said one or more exercise constraints is an amount of force that can be used in a fully contracted exercise in said plurality of fully contracted exercises.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein an exercise constraint in said one or more exercise constraints is a maximum amount of repetitions of a fully contracted exercise in said plurality of fully contracted exercises.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said mandatory recovery time is a function of the exercise result.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the exercise result is a length of time that the subject was able to exert a force during a fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the exercise result is an amount of force that the subject was able to exert during a fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the fully contracted exercise regimen works a plurality of muscle groups of the subject thereby accomplishing a full body stimulation resulting from the subject'"'"'s force production.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein a fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises stresses a muscle group to a point of failure.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein a length of time of the mandatory recovery period is a function of the exercise result and an experience trend measured among other subjects that use the fully contracted exercise regimen, wherein the other subjects have one or more characteristics in common with the subject.

23. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

sending accounting and billing information relating to the fully contracted exercise regimen for said subject to a central data store and to also electronically interact with a physician of the subject, an employer of the subject, or an insurance carrier of the subject.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of fully contracted exercises comprises one or more bench presses, one or more leg presses, one or more core pulls, and one or more vertical lifts.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the subject is in a fully contracted position during an entirety of a fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein an exercise constraint in the one or more exercise constraints is a maximum amount of force of a fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises.