Patent ID: 7354385

Claim:
A device for wearing over a body joint to simulate obesity and enhance caloric expenditure in daily activities, the device comprising: a substantially cylindrical form-fitting sleeve to be comfortably worn over a body joint and adjacent proximal and distal areas of the body joint, the sleeve comprising a middle portion that at least partially covers the body joint, a proximal portion that at least partially covers the proximal area, and a distal portion that at least partially covers the distal area; and means for removably attaching a first plurality of solid weights to the proximal portion and a second plurality of solid weights to the distal portion, the first and second plurality of solid weights spaced apart from each other and anatomically distributed on the corresponding portion of the form-fitting sleeve in a tapered arrangement toward the middle portion of the form-fitting sleeve so that the amount of weight on the form fitting sleeve generally increases away from the middle portion to generally simulate the relative distribution of endogenous skeletal muscle on the adjacent proximal and distal areas of the body joint when the device is worn.