Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Device with applicator having specific movement
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-17
2001-10-09
Yu, Justine R. (Department: 3764)
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Device with applicator having specific movement
C600S587000, C606S204000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06299586
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention is a novel device for acupressure point therapy. More specifically, the apparatus is invented not only for treating but also for locating treatment points particularly on the four zones of extremities, i.e. ears, face, hands and feet.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Pressure with pellets, on the ears, face, hands and feet, is just as effective as penetration with needles if treatment points are correctly located. A pellet can be non-metallic such as a grain or seed. A metal pellet, commonly known to practitioners as migraine pellet, acu-pellet or press pellet, is embedded in the center of a circular tape section, about 7.5 mm or 0.3″ in diameter, to be applied adhesively on the skin. The pellet is usually plated with titanium, gold or silver, and has a blunt and polished circular contact surface, about 1.2 mm in diameter, to prevent skin penetration.
The use of such pellets is wasteful, because the pellet has to be disposed together with its used tape after each treatment. Furthermore, adhesive application is unnecessary and often causes adverse effect after a prolonged period of time.
Technically, acupuncture and acupressure points are located with a point locator which includes a low-current galvanometer, commonly known to acupuncturists as galvanic skin response (GSR) monitor or, to bio-feedback therapists, as skin conductance (SC) monitor, a search probe and a grounding pole. The GSR monitor is connected, by conducting wires, to the probe and pole. The grounding pole is held in patient's hand to establish ground contact, while practitioner holds the search probe, like a pen, and presses the probe tip at different locations on the patient's skin to detect a point. A treatment point is located in the region where electrical resistance of the skin is relatively lower than that of its surrounding. When the tip of the probe contacts the skin in that region, the lower resistance causes a surge of electric current through the GSR monitor. The current surge signifies a point location and appears on the monitor as a variation either in the display for readings or in the level of monitoring noises and/or illumination.
After locating the points, practitioners have to free their hand from the search probe to perform treatments on patient, either with needles for acupuncture, or pellets for acu-point pressure. The switching from point locating to treating performance is inconvenient and time consuming.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
There are four particular zones of the points to be treated with the invented system; the four zones are on the ears, face, hands and feet.
Components of the acupressure point treating system of the present invention include an acupressure pointer, a finger grounder, connecting wires and a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) monitor. The acupressure pointer can be used particularly by itself. When the pointer is connected by the connecting wire to the GSR monitor and operated together with a ground contactor, such as the finger grounder of the present invention or, alternatively, a common hand-held grounding pole, it forms the acupressure point treatment apparatus.
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Yu Justine R.
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