The subject matter herein relates generally to a system, product and method for providing holistic health quarters and more generally to a process for providing recovery services in a holistic health quarters that offers facilities to transitional housing facilities that incorporate innovative, water-based hydro therapy pools, holistic therapies for athletes, post-operative patients, patients continuing their addiction recovery, and individuals looking to enhance their overall fitness to unprecedented levels of efficiency and intensity. Further, the subject mater also relates generally to a means for providing hydro therapy underwater treadmill and pool, resistance therapy jets, directional jet systems for hydro massage, underwater monitoring, and adjustable water depth technology for post-operative patients and athletes looking for holistic therapies or fitness regiments. The present transitional housing services, systems and methods.
One aspect of the current invention involves post operative transitional housing for patients. Many post operative participants have significant transitional needs for services once rehabilitation services have been provided by an in-patient or out-patient team of therapists and medical health care professionals. In one aspect, addiction to alcohol or narcotic drugs is a major problem and has to be dealt with promptly and effectively. The addiction takes a toll on the addict as well as on the family of the addict and the society at large. The individual addict is the most affected. He is affected mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually as are the family and friends of the addict. In another aspect, transitional services to train from injury or post operative conditions may require specialized equipment and programs in an upscale setting to provide holistic health quarters and housing for patients with specialized needs.
In the case of mental health conditions and related addictions, many people assume that such conditions or addiction is the product of flawed character or is a part of a person's identity. This tendency to mark behaviors as aspects of a person rather than as aspects of their health condition or circumstances or situation has been termed by psychologists as the fundamental attribution error (FAE). The fact is, mental health conditions and addictions are treatable, even curable, but in order to help individuals out of these illnesses, the underlying causes of the mental health conditions and addictions must first be properly diagnosed, addressed in an in-patient or out-patient treatment program, and then treated through on-going transitional treatment.
An addict or mental health patient might lose his or her job as well as social standing, making it a difficult situation for the patient as well as for family, friends, colleagues and employers of the patient. The loss of employment could result in financial difficulties. As addiction and mental health are major societal issues, many steps have been taken to ensure treatment of an individual who suffers from these conditions.
There are many rehabilitation programs and centers as well as detoxification programs that treat various mental health patients or program participants. Once the program ends, the recovering patient returns to life in the real world but is still at risk of relapsing into addiction or other related conditions. For such purposes, ‘transitional houses’ have been established to allow recovering patients to adjust back to normal life. Such transitional housing does not provide for any continued care and treatment and is meant simply to house the recovering patients. The recovering patients have special needs as do those in recovery with disorders such as compromised immune systems or other infections. Such needs are not catered to by existing transitional facilities or services. Further, the existing transitional facilities and services fails to address more specific needs of other post operative patients nor the needs of high performance, world class athletes looking for a condition regiment or holistic therapies that allow a patient or athlete to cleanse themselves by conditioning the mind and spirit or to implement custom dietary programs utilizing holistic supplement treatments.
In one previous existing approach, US Patent application 20060229914 (Armstrong 2006) describes a method of providing support for, and monitoring of individuals with addictive behavior. A system that talks about using a remote server to link all those that join the program is described therein. However, this method does not ensure total commitment to the part of both the addict as well as the program monitor. Transitional housing on the other hand ensures constant contact with the recovering addict, leading to much better results.
By using a holistic method of rehabilitation-mixing hydro pool therapy, nutrition, exercise, psychotherapy, and other methods, it is possible to address a broad universe of patients and those in recovery requiring post operative and transitional housing services. Currently, there are no facilities or rehabilitation systems that nourish the needs of patients, those in recovery, AND athletes, yet the needs of each population have many similar characteristics.
What is therefore needed are systems, products and methods to nourish “the whole athlete” and “the whole individual” in recovery and those individual participants seeking overall body conditioning. What is needed is a system, product and methods for providing patients, those in recovery, and athletes with a resort-type upscale, holistic facility that emphasizes uniquely designed, water-based hydro pool therapy rehabilitation systems and treatment methods that allow for adjustments as water levels rise or fall and the body becomes more or less buoyant, allowing the amount of weight bearing to be adjusted. What is further needed is to provide systems, therapeutic methods, and products that result in less pain and stress on the joints than traditional land-based therapy and exercise. There are currently no unique hydro pool rehabilitation system designs that enhance water-based therapy with several high quality technology applications to produce accelerated recoveries as well as advanced strength and overall mind and body conditioning in an upscale, holistic health quarters transitional housing setting. As such, what is further needed is a new system, product and methods for providing transitional/rehabilitation homes that pair state-of-the-art water-based therapy with holistic treatments in an upscale environment.
The present disclosure is directed to holistic health quarters systems, products and methods.
In one embodiment, a holistic health care, transitional housing system, comprises of referral of a prospective participant; an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are provided; one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; one or more transitional treatment programs are designed and implemented for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; one or more program participants are profiled into one or more classifications; an information management monitoring program collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; one or more program participant outcomes are determined from the one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method.
In further aspects, the system may variously include an information management monitoring program that is implemented in a computing system and an operating environment. In other various aspects, the system is provided wherein the hydrotherapy pool devices include one or more therapeutic devices selected from a group consisting of one or more hydro massage hose devices, one or more underwater monitoring systems, and one or more adjustable height pools.
In another embodiment of the invention, a holistic health care, transitional housing system is provided wherein the one or more therapeutic devices include at least one underwater camera and wherein at least one underwater camera provides real time data to the information management monitoring system.
In another embodiment, a holistic health care, transitional housing system, comprises a referral of a prospective participant; an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are provided; one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; one or more transitional treatment programs are designed and implemented for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; one or more transitional care specialist analyze and profile one or more participants; one or more program participants re profiled into one or more classifications; an information management monitoring program collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; one or more program participant outcomes are determined from the one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; a discharge plan is designed an implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method; and the system further compromises a preparation plan for post treatment healing plans for self-implementation by the program participant; a short term psychotherapy optional service program; a sports therapy optional service program; an aromatherapy optional service program; one or more certified personal trainers; one or more customized organic food plan optional services program; an acupuncture optional service program; a reflexology optional service program; a psychological profile and holistic practices discharge plan for each program participant; a reentry plan for post transition reintegration of the program participant; and one or more post-rehabilitation, post transitional reintegration support plans.
In another embodiment, a holistic health care, transitional housing system, comprises a referral of a prospective participant; an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are provided; one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; one or more transitional treatment programs are designed and implemented for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic heath care methods; one or more transitional care specialist analyze and profile one or more participants; one or more program participants are profiled into one or more classifications; and information management monitoring program collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; a discharge plan is designed and implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method; and the system further comprises a preparation plan for post treatment healing plans for self-implementation by the program participant; a short term psychotherapy optional service program; one or more certified personal trainers; one or more customized organic food plan optional service program; a psychological profile and holistic practices discharge plan for each program participant; a reentry plan for post transition reintegration of the program participant; and one or more post-rehabilitation, post transitional reintegration support plans; and also further comprises said upscale holistic health quarter facility including one or more private one-bedroom suites; a wireless Internet service throughout said facility; an LCD/DVD/Stereo in every suite; a personal housekeeper service 24/7 staff availability service program; one or more entertainment systems for each program participant's use; at least one sports medicine physician on-call; one or more sauna and steam rooms; a care available for program participants; a theatre; and one or more meeting rooms.
In another embodiment, a method for providing athletic, post-injury training in an upscale, holistic transitional housing facility, includes the following steps in various order: preparing athletes for a rehabilitation program, evaluating the athlete's physical condition, evaluating the athlete's mental state by conducting one or more clinical tests, implementing one or more holistic health quarters treatment plans, providing one or more hydro-pool therapy plans implemented by utilizing one or more of a group of treatment systems consisting of an underwater treadmill, resistance therapy jets, and hydro massage, wherein the one or more hydro-pool therapy plans may variously include a method for underwater monitoring and adjustable floor and depth settings.
In another embodiment, a method of providing holistic health quarters, transitional housing, comprises the following steps in any order: providing a referral of a prospective participant; providing an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are implemented; arranging one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; designing and implementing one or more transitional treatment programs for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; assigning one or more transitional care specialist to analyze and profile one or more participants; creating a profile for one or more program participants into one or more classifications; providing an information management monitoring program that collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; determining one or more program participant outcomes from the one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; providing a discharge plan that is designed and implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method. A method of providing holistic health quarters, transitional housing, comprises the following steps in any order: providing a referral of a prospective participant; providing an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are implemented; arranging one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; designing and implementing one or more transitional treatment programs for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; assigning one or more transitional care specialist to analyze and profile one or more participants, creating a profile for one or more program participants into one or more classifications; providing an information management monitoring program that collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; determining one or more program participant outcomes from the one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; providing a discharge plan that is designed and implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method; and wherein the one or more therapeutic devices are selected from a group consisting of one or more variable speed underwater treadmills, one or more resistance therapy jet pools, one or more hydro massage hose devices, one or more underwater monitoring systems, and one or more adjustable height pools.
In further aspects of the embodiment, the method is provided wherein the one or more therapeutic devices include at least one underwater camera and wherein at least one underwater camera provides real time data to the information management monitoring system. In other various aspects, the method is provided providing a preparation plan for post treatment healing plans for self-implementation by the program participant; offering a short term psychotherapy optional service program; providing a sports therapy optional service program; providing an aromatherapy optional service program; directly treating one or more program participants with one or more certified personal trainers; designing one or more customized organic food plan optional services program; providing an acupuncture optional service program; providing a reflexology optional service program; designing and providing a psychological profile and holistic practices discharge plan for each program participant; designing a reentry plan for post transition reintegration of the program participant; and creating one or more post-rehabilitation, post transitional reintegration support plans.
In another embodiment, A holistic health care, transitional housing system, comprises means for a referral of a prospective participant; means for an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are provided; means For one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; means for one or more transitional treatment programs are designed and implemented for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; means for one or more transitional care specialist analyze and profile one or more participants; means for one or more program participants are profiled into one or more classifications; means for providing an information management monitoring program collects and analyzes one or more program participant attributes; means for one or more program participant outcomes are determined from the one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; means for a discharge plan is designed and implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method.
In another embodiment, a computer system for providing holistic health quarter, transitional housing services, comprising a bus; a memory unit coupled with said bus; a processor coupled with said bus, said processor for executing a method for providing methods and products for holistic health quarters and transitional housing to implement the steps of: analyzing monitoring and management data comprises accessing said monitoring and management data further comprising a first group and a second group of memory stored monitoring and management data strings; partitioning a portion of said monitoring and management data into said first group of memory stored monitoring and management data strings, said partitioning into said first group based on a fixed byte-width property of said monitoring and management data strings; partitioning a portion of said monitoring and management data into said second group of memory stored monitoring and management data strings, said partitioning into said second group based on a variable byte-width property of said monitoring and management data strings; searching through said first group of monitoring and management data strings for a prescribed string utilizing a fixed byte-width monitoring and management data string process; searching through said second group of monitoring and management data strings for a prescribed string utilizing a variable byte-width monitoring and management data string process, wherein the execution of said fixed byte-width monitoring and management data string process is more efficient that the execution of said variable byte-width monitoring and management data string process to implement various steps to implement holistic quarter services that may be provided and included in various forms of computer readable media utilizing a computer implemented rehabilitation transitional housing healthcare management system; providing computer readable media to receive data from one or more external peripheral devices that are specially designed to be coupled with one or more hydro-pool therapy treatment programs and one or more upscale, holistic health post operative or athletic training plans; providing a referral of a prospective participant; providing an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, and mental health services are implemented; arranging one or more hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies include advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; designed and implementing one or more transitional treatment programs for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods; assigning one or more transitional care specialist to analyze and profile one or more participants; creating a profile for one or more program participants into one or more classifications; providing an information management monitoring program that collects and analyzes one or more program Participant attributes; determining one or more program participant outcomes from the one or more program participant attributes analyzed and collected by the information monitoring program; and providing a discharge plan that is designed and implemented for one or more program participant outcomes wherein said program participant outcome does not result in at least one subsequent transitional housing program plan and therapeutic treatment method.
Another embodiment may be configured so as to utilize the software program code to implement the steps of the therapeutic methods.
Another embodiment provides for a method of increasing form and gain function monitoring is included.
Another embodiment provides for a method of providing real time monitoring and management of hydro therapy pools utilizing underwater cameras.
The construction and method of operation of the invention, together with additional objectives and advantages thereof, will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
a shows a holistic health housing system including an information management monitoring program.
b shows a holistic transitional system including a holistic health server and an information management monitoring program operating environment.
b shows another embodiment for providing athletic, post-injury training.
Specific examples of components and arrangements are described below to simplify the present disclosure. These are, of course, merely examples and are not intended to be limiting. In addition, the present disclosure may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in the various examples. This repetition is for the purpose of simplicity and clarity and does not in itself dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and/or configurations discussed.
a illustrates a first embodiment of the present invention. The present invention relates to a system for creating a holistic health housing to implement a process for providing therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care to persons with addiction to drugs, alcohol or other substances and who may be suffering from other conditions such as compromised or weakened immune systems. In addition, those in recovery, athletes or post operative patients may also need the holistic therapeutic methods of hydro pool, rehabilitation systems. The first overall system 100 involves an individual in recovery and admitting him or herself into the said process by a referring a patient utilizing a recommendation of either a practicing physician or a rehabilitation center or a family member or an employer or volunteers to do so himself as shown in 110 of
References in the specification to “one embodiment”, “an embodiment”, “an example embodiment”, etc., indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure or characteristic, but every embodiment may not necessarily include the particular feature, structure or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art to affect such feature, structure or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described. Parts of the description are presented using terminology commonly employed by those of ordinary skill in the art to convey the substance of their work to others of ordinary skill in the art.
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The basic set of events in the daily log 240 comprises one or more events including fitness training with professional trainers, daily diet chart with personal chef, daily meeting with a personal program monitor, or daily meetings with other program monitor health care professionals 210. In certain aspects, the embodiment may variously include in-patient rehabilitation health care, mental health, drug and alcohol recovery, or post operative physical disabilities treatment plans and services. The overall method for providing holistic health care facility systems and methods 200 comprises a means not just for physical and mental injury rehabilitation but also for holistic healing and support activities such as Chi Gong, Acupuncture, Massage therapy, Pet therapy, Aromatherapy and many other such holistic therapies that help in complete healing of the participant's physical, mental, and in some cases, spiritual well being. The activities are assigned as per the program assigned as well as the profiling results 240 of the participants. In other various aspects, the methods may include faith based treatment plans and other community initiatives in the upscale, transitional housing facility.
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In other various aspects of the embodiment, the one or more hydro-pool therapy plans implemented by utilizing one or more of a group of treatment systems my include steps for providing underwater monitoring, providing participants the ability to view their response during a workout or rehabilitation session, and display user selected preferences in a subsequent workout. In other various aspects, the method may further include steps for providing underwater cameras that project the image on one or more flat screen monitors in various configurations throughout the pool. In certain aspects, a step for providing form and gain function monitoring is included.
In another embodiment, the method may variously include steps for providing access for wheel chair patients, training, and adjusting a moveable floor system to accommodate users of various height and weight.
In another embodiment, the method may include post-integration and reintegration support providing an upscale health quarters facility wherein post operative, athletic training, an mental health services are implemented to improve overall body conditioning and treating those with compromised or weakened immune systems; arranging one or more-hydro-therapy pool devices are provided wherein spa based therapies included advanced technology monitoring to produce accelerated recoveries; and designing and implementing one or more transitional treatment programs for one or more participant classifications wherein a program includes therapeutic treatment methods and holistic health care methods to enhance efficiency and intensity in participant programs for individuals on one or more levels of recovery and participants with compromised or weakened immune systems.
In another embodiment, holistic quarter services are provided utilizing a computer implemented apparatus and system of data analysis to perform the steps outlined above. In another embodiment, a computer readable medium provides program code for implementing a computer implemented apparatus and system for providing holistic health server, database, and information monitoring management operating environment. In another embodiment, a relational database tracks and monitors each condition, classification and results report. In yet another embodiment, at least one search algorithm provides an enterprise query for a secure, holistic quarters transitional housing program methods and systems.
In other embodiments, program code for implementing one or more of the method steps of holistic quarter services may be provided and included in various forms of computer readable media utilizing a computer implemented rehabilitation transitional housing healthcare management system. In certain aspects, the computer readable media may receive data from one or more external peripheral device that is specially designed in concert with one or more hydro-pool therapy treatment programs and one or more upscale, holistic health post operative or athletic training plan. In other various aspects, the computer system may comprise a bus; a memory unit coupled with said bus; and a processor coupled with said bus, said processor for executing a method for analyzing data comprising method steps for implementing holistic health quarters services, rehabilitation services, and upscale holistic health services transitional housing. In other embodiments, data may be sent and received from one or more hydro pool therapy systems or one or more post operative rehabilitation, training systems. In other embodiments, a trained system comprising of one or more algorithms utilize comparing data stored in a daily log of attributions. An exemplary operating environment is described in more detail below.
In most embodiments, the system 1100 includes some type of network 1110. The network can be any type of network familiar to those skilled in the art that can support data communications using any of a variety of commercially-available protocols, including without limitation TCP/IP, SNA, IPX, AppleTalk, and the like. Merely by way of example, the network 1110 can be a local area network (“LAN”), such as an Ethernet network, a Token-Ring network and/or the like; a wide-area network; a virtual network, including without limitations a virtual private network (“VPN”); the Internet; an intranet; an extranet; a public switched telephone network (“PSTN”); an infra-red network; a wireless network (e.g., a network operating under any of the IEEE 802.11 suite of protocols, GRPS, GSM, UMTS, EDGE, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G, Wimax, WiFi, CDMA 2OOO, WCDMA, the Bluetooth protocol known in the art, and/or any other wireless protocol); and/or any combination of these and/or other networks.
The system may also include one or more server computers 1102, 1104, 1106 which can be general purpose computers, specialized server computers (including, merely by way of example, PC servers, UNIX servers, mid-range servers, mainframe computers rack-mounted servers, etc.), server farms, server clusters, or any other appropriate arrangement and/or combination. One or more of the servers (e.g., 1106) may be dedicated to running applications, such as a business application, a Web server, application server, etc. Such servers may be used to process requests from user computers 1112, 1114, 1116, and 1118. The applications can also include any number of applications for controlling access to resources of the servers 1102, 1104, 1106.
The Web server can be running an operating system including any of those discussed above, as well as any commercially-available server operating systems. The Web server can also run any of a variety of server applications and/or mid-tier applications, including HTTP servers, FTP servers, CGI servers, database servers, Java servers, business applications, and the like. The server(s) also may be one or more computers which can be capable of executing programs or scripts in response to the user computers 1112, 1114, 1116, and 1118. As one example, a server may execute one or more Web applications. The Web application may be implemented as one or more Web applications. The Web application may be implemented as one or more scripts or programs written in any programming language, such as Java®, C, C# or C++, and/or any scripting language, such as Perl, Python, or TCL, as well as combinations of any programming/scripting languages. The server(s) may also include database servers, including without limitation those commercially available from Oracle®, Microsoft®, Sybase®, IBM® and the like, which can process requests from database clients running on a user computer 1112, 1114, 1116, 1118.
the system 1100 may also include one or more databases 1120. The database(s) 1120 may reside in a variety of locations. By way of example, a database 1120 may reside on a storage medium local to (and/or resident in) one or more of the computers 1102, 1104, 1106, 1112, 1114, 1116, 1118. Alternatively, it may be remote from any or all of the computers 1102, 1104, 1106, 1112, 1114, 1116, 1118, and/or in communication (e.g., via the network 1110) with one or more of these. In a particular set of embodiments, the database 1120 may reside in a storage-area network (“SAN”) familiar to those skilled in the art. Similarly, any necessary files for performing the functions attributed to the computers 1102, 1104, 1106, 1112, 1114, 1116, 1118 may be stored locally on the respective computer and/or remotely, as appropriate. In one set of embodiments, the database 1120 may be a relational database, such as Oracle 10 g that is adapted to store, update, and retrieve data in response to SQL-formatted commands.
The computer system 1200 may additionally include a computer-readable storage media reader 1212, a communications system 1214 (e.g., a modem, a network card (wireless or wired), an infra-red communication device, etc.), and working memory 1218, which may include RAM and ROM devices as described above. In some embodiments, the computer system 1200 may also include a processing acceleration unit 1216, which can include a digital signal processor DSP, a special-purpose processor, and/or the like.
The computer-readable storage media reader 1212 can further be connected to a computer-readable storage medium 1210, together (and, optionally, in combination with storage device(s) 1208) comprehensively representing remote, local, fixed, and/or removable storage devices plus storage media for temporarily and/or more permanently containing, storing transmitting, and retrieving computer-readable information. The communications system 1214 may permit data to be exchanged with the network and/or any other computer described above with respect to the system 1200.
The computer system 1200 may also comprise software elements, shown as being currently located within a working memory 1218, including an operating system 1220 and/or other code 1222, such as an application program (which may be a client application, Web browser, mid-tier application, RDBMS, etc.). It should be appreciated that alternate embodiments of a computer system 1200 may have numerous variations from that described above. For example, customized hardware might also be used and/or particular elements might be implemented in hardware, software (including portable software, such as applets), or both. Further, connection to other computing devices such as network input/output devices may be employed.
Storage media and computer readable media for containing code, or portions of code, can include any appropriate media known or used in the art, including storage media and communication media, such as but not limited to volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage and/or transmission of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data, including RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, data signals, data transmissions, or any other medium which can be used to store or transmit the desired information and which can be accessed by the computer. Based on the disclosure and teachings provided herein, a person of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate other ways and/or methods to implement the various embodiments.
One having skill in the art would appreciate that the heating pad 34 of the current embodiment may be replaced by other heaters including the earlier described heating element.
The above illustration provide many different embodiments for implementing different features of the invention. Specific embodiments of components and processes are described to help clarify the invention. These are, of course, merely embodiments and are not intended to limit the invention from that described in the claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in one or more specific examples, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be constructed broadly and in a manner consistent with the scope of the invention, as set forth in the following claims.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/180,688, filed May 22, 2009, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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