Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application
Patent
1993-10-25
1995-08-08
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
A61B 1700
Patent
active
054394805
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
A reduced oxygen level in human or animal tissue can be regarded as the primary cause of many complaints. A branch of medical research therefore has for its object to find or improve methods which render an increased supply of oxygen to the tissue possible.
For several medical indications methods can be used which are to render an increased supply of oxygen/possible. Known methods are, for example, the oxygenation, the oxygen multi-step therapy or also the hyperbaric medicine or the external application of activated, molecular oxygen, as present in tetrachlorodecaoxide. Each of these methods has for certain indications its advocates and produces results but it should not be ignored that just in this field the opinions differ widely. One of the reasons being no doubt the fact that an improved oxygen absorption also involves certain risks which arise from the formation to some extent of dangerous oxygen species such as Singulett oxygen, hydroxyl radicals, superoxide radicals and peroxide. Moreover, many applications per se are not without danger, examples thereof being the hyperbaric medicine or injections of a person's own oxygen-enriched blood.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore the present invention has for its object, to provide a harmless method which renders an increased absorption of oxygen by human or animal tissue possible. This is accomplished by the use of a woven cloth composed of at least 50% by weight of polyvinyl chloride and/or polyamide fibers, which if necessary also contains acrylic fibers, in any case however less than 10% cotton and/or rayon fibers for producing a therapeutic aid for increasing the oxygen partial pressure in animal or human musculature.
"(Woven) cloth" must here be understood to mean any type of flat textile fabrics in which the thread combination of the different fibers can be effected in the form of weaves, weft-knitted fabrics, warp-knitted fabrics, tissues or also fleecy fabrics.
It is known that woven cloths made of certain artificial fibers, more particularly a mixture of polyvinyl chloride and acrylic fibers have particularly advantageous physico-chemical properties. They are, for example, characterized, because of the poor thermal conductivity of the fibers, by a high insulating power. In addition, the fibers are water-repellent and do not swell, so that moisture on the skin is immediately transferred to the exterior by the cloth. Added to this is the fact that when these synthetic fibers are worn, frictional electricity is produced; this has a stimulating effect on the skin and the skin appendages, which is considered an extremely pleasant property of such a fiber fabric.
These advantageous, known properties of the cloth are utilized in, for example, the treatment of pain syndromes and its use as a woven cloth for orthopaedic, therapeutic foundation garments and bandages is recommended and they proved to be effective either as cervical collars, shoulder joint bandages or lumbar ortheses, or as bandages for the extremities. In the same manner these cloths have proved their worth in veterinary medicine for bandages of the sensitive tendons and joints of horses, which are prone to swelling.
A hyperemia of the skin during wearing of these cloths has indeed occurred, but this fact does in no way suggest, as can, for example, be read from the Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Innere Medizin, published Jan. 5, 1995 (Leipzig), that this is accompanied by an increase in the oxygen partial pressure in the musculature. This surprising effect was not detected until after a large number of measurements of the oxygen partial pressure in the musculature in the leg and the back.
The results of these tests performed on sportsmen and non-sportsmen, older and younger ones, healthy and sick persons, recommend the use of such a cloth, for example Vibrostatic.RTM. (registered trademark of Messra, Temova Establishment, Vaduz), to produce therapeutic aids, such as bandages, underwear, gloves or stockings, as a supporting treatment for acute and chronic low oxygen level syndrom
REFERENCES:
patent: 4834079 (1989-05-01), Benckhuijsen
Frank-Dietmar Ernst, "Funktionelle Beziehungen zwischen Mikrozirkulation und Sauerstoffversorgung", Zeitschrift Fur Die Gesamte Innere Medizin Und Ihre Grenzgebiete, vol. 40, Issue 9, 1 May 1985.
Kamm William E.
Temova Etablissement
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