Patent ID: 11925482
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus comprising:
a back brace configured to support a lumbar region of a human body while worn;
a sensor configured to generate postural data indicative of tilt, torsion, flexion, or rotation of the lumbar region of the human body;
a processor configured to:
identify a current posture by examining the postural data generated by the sensor,
determine an injury risk based on the current posture,
compare the injury risk with a threshold level associated with a certain posture or a certain series of postures having a heightened risk of injury,
determine the injury risk exceeds the threshold level, and
cause a notification to be generated that alerts a user of the back brace that the injury risk exceeds the threshold level; and

a communication module configured to transmit at least some of the postural data to a computing device.