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US 12683004 · App. 18/935,021 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Cloud-assisted rehabilitation methods and systems for musculoskeletal conditions

Inventors: Rexford Irving Hughes (Springfield, OR); Daniel Charles Fitzpatrick (Eugene, OR); Cale Gage Bruckner (Eugene, OR); Howard Wayne Skipper (Eugene, OR)

Assignee: CARKMH, LLC

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Patent No.: US 12683004
App. No.: 18/935,021
Granted: Jul 14, 2026
Kind: B1

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Abstract

Embodiments of the invention include a cloud-assisted rehabilitation system for assisting in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions, and a method for rehabilitating patients having musculoskeletal conditions. A rehabilitation portal can aggregate and de-identified musculoskeletal rehabilitation information that is gathered from various intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatuses attached to a group of patients. The rehabilitation portal can facilitate crowd communication among the group of patients. A particular rehabilitation experience can be compared with other rehabilitation experiences and data from other patients. The rehabilitation portal can also facilitate crowd communication among a group of healthcare professionals so that the plurality of healthcare professionals can communicate with each other and compare information regarding different rehabilitation experiences based at least on the aggregated de-identified musculoskeletal rehabilitation information.

Claims (38)

1 . An intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus, comprising:

a first intelligent rehabilitation member attachable to a patient, the first intelligent rehabilitation member including a first logic section, a first transmitter, a first accelerometer, a first sensor, and a memory; and

a second intelligent rehabilitation member attachable to the patient, the second rehabilitation member including a second logic section, a second transmitter, a second accelerometer, and a second sensor;

wherein the first intelligent rehabilitation member is physically separate from the second intelligent rehabilitation member.

2 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first intelligent rehabilitation member includes a physical actuator configured to create a logical pairing between the first intelligent rehabilitation member and the second intelligent rehabilitation member.

3 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first intelligent rehabilitation member includes a paired indicator configured to indicate whether or not the logical pairing between the first intelligent rehabilitation member and the second intelligent rehabilitation member has occurred.

4 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first and second intelligent rehabilitation members are physically configured and logically configured to measure range of motion data for an entire extremity of the patient.

5 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

a first strap configured to wrap around a human limb of the patient that is directly adjacent to a human joint on one side thereof such that there is no other human joint between the first strap and the human joint; and

a second strap configured to wrap around the human limb that is directly adjacent to the human joint on another side thereof such that there is no other human joint between the second strap and the human joint.

6 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 5 , wherein:

the first strap includes first attachment means for attaching to the human limb;

the second strap includes second attachment means for attaching to the human limb;

the first intelligent rehabilitation member is coupled to the first strap; and

the second intelligent rehabilitation member is coupled to the second strap.

7 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first logic section and the second logic section are logically configured to generate musculoskeletal rehabilitation information, based on information gathered from at least the first intelligent rehabilitation member and the second intelligent rehabilitation member.

8 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 7 ,

wherein the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information includes at least one of temperature, limb circumference, gait patterns, or step counts.

9 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 7 , wherein:

the first logic section of the first intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to gather a first portion of the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information about the patient using at least one of the first accelerometer or the first sensor; and

the second logic section of the second intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to gather a second portion of the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information about the patient using at least one of the second accelerometer or the second sensor.

10 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 9 , wherein:

the second transmitter of the second intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to transmit the second portion of the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information to the first intelligent rehabilitation member; and

the first transmitter of the first intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to transmit the first portion and the second portion of the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information to a mobile device.

11 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the mobile device includes a client-side program coded to automatically record the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information transmitted by the first transmitter of the first intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus.

12 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the client-side program is configured to receive and record a rehabilitation information manual input from a user using a touch-sensitive screen of the mobile device.

13 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the client-side program is further configured to aggregate the first musculoskeletal rehabilitation information and the rehabilitation information manual input into a correlated data set.

14 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the mobile device is at least one of a smart phone or a tablet.

15 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the mobile device includes a rehabilitation portal including a client-side application operable on the mobile device, the client-side application being configured to receive the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information associated with the patient via a short-range wireless connection from the first transmitter of the first intelligent rehabilitation member.

16 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the rehabilitation portal is configured to automatically receive the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information from the first intelligent rehabilitation member, process the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information, aggregate the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information, and generate one or more reports for one or more healthcare professionals based at least on the aggregated musculoskeletal rehabilitation information.

17 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 7 , wherein:

the first logic section of the first intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to automatically gather a first portion of musculoskeletal rehabilitation information using the first accelerometer and the first sensor; and

the second logic section of the second intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to automatically gather a second portion of the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information using the second accelerometer and the second sensor.

18 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the first logic section of the first intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to store the gathered musculoskeletal rehabilitation information, gathered by both the first and the second intelligent rehabilitation members, in the memory of the first intelligent rehabilitation member.

19 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the first logic section of the first intelligent rehabilitation member is configured to cause the first transmitter to transmit, via a short-range wireless connection, the gathered musculoskeletal rehabilitation information, gathered by both the first and the second intelligent rehabilitation members, to a rehabilitation portal.

20 . The intelligent musculoskeletal rehabilitation apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the first logic section and the second logic section are configured to generate musculoskeletal rehabilitation information; and

the musculoskeletal rehabilitation information includes temperature, limb circumference, gait patterns, and step counts.