MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641008337 A) filed by Dr. Jogada Shivakumar, Belgaum, Karnataka, on Jan. 28, for 'design and development of physiotherapy chair.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Jogada Shivakumar; Manoj Gojagekar; Sanket Kondi; Shubham Ghorpade; Siddharth Aptekar; Dr. Ratan Patil; Prof. Uttam Koruche; Prof. Vinayak Ratan; Dr. Madhavi Magi; Dr. Basavaraj Hubballi; Prof. Vinayakumar Bagali; and Prof Basavaraj Chougula.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Our project deals with the fabrication of the stroke therapy wheel chair. Stroke is usually the sudden death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen, caused by blockage of blood flow or rupture of an artery to the brain. A stroke occurs when part of the brain loses its blood supply and stops working. This causes the part of the body that it controls to stop working as well. There are several treatments for the stroke like endovascular treatments, surgical treatments etc. but the best treatment for the paralysis, strokes, is the physiotherapy. Usually, the therapy is done manually with an assistant. We propose a method in which the physiotherapy is done automatically with the help of simple mechanisms. Our project consists of a chair setup in which the patients are made to sit and the arms and the legs of the chair is given motion, so that the patients arms and legs move at a relative speed so that the treatment is done effectively. Stroke is generally sudden death of brain cells because of lack of oxygen due to blockage of blood flow or rupture of an artery supplying the brain. A stroke occurs when part of the brain is starved of its blood supply and doesn't work anymore. Consequently, the part of the body controlled by that section of the brain does not work either. There are a number of treatments for the stroke, such as endovascular treatments, surgical treatments, etc., but the best treatment for the paralysis and strokes is physiotherapy. The therapy is generally done manually, with an assistant. We propose a method whereby physiotherapy is done automatically, with simple mechanisms. This constitutes a chair setup in which patients are made to sit, where the arms and the legs of the chair are given motion, so that the patients' arms and the legs move at a relative speed so that the treatment is done effectively. Keywords: Treatments, Stroke therapy, paralysis, neuroplasticity, physiotherapy."
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