Abstract: A training method and device to suppress sounds caused by sleep and breathing disorders, such as, snoring and sleep apnea. The system records the actual snoring of the subject, modifies it, by time delay and perhaps other sound modifying techniques, and broadcasts it to the subject by a speaker or earphone. This trains the person to attend to his/her own snoring, so that he/she might stop it by moving parts of his/her body or changing breathing patterns. The method and device may include the combination and/or integration of hearing aid functionality and means for detection of snoring sounds.

Abstract: A continuous motion device for the therapy and rehabilitation of a patient's hand and fingers comprises a splint adapted to be mounted to the patient's forearm and hand, a gear housing rotatably mounted around a reversible motor, with the reversible motor driving a gear mechanism provided in the gear housing. The gear mechanism driving a digit attachment member in a rotational movement therewith. When actuated, the reversible motor causes the gear housing to rotate about the axis of the motor with the digit attachment member counter-rotating relative to the gear housing about another axis spaced apart from and parallel to the motor axis, whereby the absolute motion of the digit attachment member and therefore of the patient's fingers follow a compound spiral. The compound spiral, depending on the ratios of the gears of the gear mechanism, can follow one of a series of multiple lobed compound spirals, having open or closed loops.

Abstract: A device for providing continuous passive motion therapy to a patient's wrist comprises a base removably attached to the forearm of the patient rearwards of the wrist. The base includes horizontal turntable which can be secured thereon in a selected position. A wheel driven by a motor is rotatably mounted on the turntable for rotation in a vertical plane. A telescopic motion transmission which is provided between the wheel and a handle is mounted eccentrically to an eccentric disk which in turn is eccentrically and parallely mounted on the wheel. The eccentric disk may be rotated relative to the wheel to vary the absolute eccentricity of the motion transmission with respect to the rotation axis of the wheel. The handle which is universally mounted to the motion transmission includes a grip. Therefore, a rotation of the wheel and thus of the eccentric disk caused the motion transmission to pivot and to impart to the patient's hand a preselected pivoting motion about the wrist being treated.