Reflexometry and hormone function

• US 8,177,725 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2010
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daryl V. Turner, Konrad Kail
• Original Assignee: Daryl V. Turner, Konrad Kail
• Inventors: Turner, Daryl V., Kail, Konrad
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stout, Michael C.
• Application Number:
  US12/764,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20100204607A1
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 600/553, 600/587, 600/531, 436/500
• US Class Current: 600/553
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1104 induced by stimuli or drugs; A61B5/1102 takes precedence; investigating medicinal preparations G01N33/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/41 Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the immune or lymphatic systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4523 Tendons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6824 Arm or wrist
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 9/005 Electric apparatus for detecting reflex action, e.g. monitoring depth of anaesthesia detection of movements A61B5/11

Abstract

A method including measuring time periods in which a reflex point of a subject is struck and a reflex response is observed. A method including determining a resting metabolic rate of a subject by applying the Kail-Waters equation. An apparatus including a striking instrument capable of delivering a kinetic energy to a reflex point of a subject; and a measurement instrument capable of being coupled to a subject and measuring a reflex response. A machine-readable storage medium containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to perform a method including determining time periods in which a reflex point is struck and a reflex response is observed. A machine-readable storage medium containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to perform a method including determining a resting metabolic rate of a subject by applying the Kail-Waters equation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining a pre-firing interval representing a first time period measured by sensors in which a reflex point is struck until an initiation of the reflex response;

storing the pre-firing interval in a memory of a computer;

determining a firing interval representing a second time period measured by sensors in which the reflex response is initiated and concluded;

determining a time function by subtracting the pre-firing interval from the firing interval using a computer program; and

correlating the time function to a hormone function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein correlating the time functions to a hormone function comprises a thyroid hormone function.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a weight, a height, and a body mass index of the subject.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

managing Hashimoto'"'"'s disease based on the time function.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

managing Graves disease based on the time function.

6. An apparatus comprising:

a striking instrument capable of delivering a kinetic energy to a reflex point of a subject;

a measurement instrument capable of being coupled to a subject and measuring a reflex response;

a processor comprising a memory and a machine-readable storage medium having a machine-readable program embodied therein comprising;

(1) instructions for determining a pre-firing interval representing a first time period in which a reflex point of a subject is struck and an initiation of the stimulation of the reflex point is sent to the brain of a subject to initiate a reflex response;

(2) instructions for determining a firing interval representing a second time period in which the reflex point of a subject having been struck and an initiation of a reflex response to the conclusion of the subject'"'"'s reflex response; and

(3) instructions for subtracting the pre-firing interval from the firing interval.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the machine-readable program further comprises instructions for calculating a resting metabolic rate.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the instructions for calculating the resting metabolic rate is based on the equation:

Resting Metabolic Rate=2307.62+[−

7.53 (height in centimeters)]−

[27.09 (weight in kilograms)]+[−

42.59 (body mass index)]+[−

45.47 (pre-fire)]+[45.85 (Fire)]+[−

42.67 (Fire−

Pre-Fire)].

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to perform a method comprising:

determining time periods in which a reflex point is struck and a reflex response is observed wherein the time periods include a pre-firing interval representing a time period in which a reflex point is struck until an initiation of the reflex response and a firing interval representing a time period in which the reflex response is initiated and concluded; and

determining a time function by subtracting the pre-firing interval from the firing interval; and

correlating the time function to a hormone function.

10. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the hormone function comprises thyroid hormone function.

11. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises determining a weight, a height, and a body mass index of the subject.

12. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

managing Hashimoto'"'"'s disease based on the time periods.

13. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

managing Graves disease based on the time periods.