Weight Loss and Fitness Expo

Biography

Biography: Marvin A Sackner

Abstract

FDA has exempted from regulation, low-risk general wellness devices used in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle to help reduce risk or help living well with heart disease, high blood pressure and Type-2 diabetes. A sedentary lifestyle is unhealthy viz., an average adult spends 50 to 70% of waking hours sitting at a computer screen in a car or watching television; 80% of Americans do not exercise. To mitigate excessive sitting, several low-risk wellness devices have become available that include sitting-standing, treadmill and cycling desks and step counting with accelerometers. All require active participation not readily accepted or complied with on a long-term basis by the general population. We fabricated a passive device, the“Gentle JoggerTM” in which a seated subject places feet upon two motorized pedals that are reciprocally moved at jogging speed to fl ex and extend the ankle with soles tapping against a rigid surface. Applications of 15 to 30 minutes between or aft er meals are recommended. Seated, “jogging” permits single tasking while operating a computer, reading, conversing or watching television. It operates through an off -on switch, is portable weighing 5 kg or 11 lb., and fi ts within a roller bag. It has an LED display of step counts that can be logged for consumer feedback with options for monitoring of pulse rate, blood pressure and glucose on an iPhone or iPad before, during and aft er a treatment. On cessation of treatment, the subject oft en perceives a temporary, pleasant, tingling, sensation in the legs that may migrate to the body