Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – With light – thermal – magnetic – or electrical application
Patent
1997-08-22
2000-01-04
DeMille, Danton D.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
With light, thermal, magnetic, or electrical application
601 17, 601135, 607115, 607145, 607 46, A61H 3904, A61N 132
Patent
active
060104678
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for enabling the patient himself or herself to engage the skin on his or her back to locate and treat trigger points thereunder, using a source of pulsed voltage. The apparatus includes a wand having a generally rigid and electrically-conductive arcuate handle of about an arm's length or less in length, a spade-shaped electrically-conductive extension with a free end formed with tapering straight edges merging in a rounded point and welded on its other end to the handle, and a cable secured on the other end of the handle to connect to connect the extension electrically to the source of pulsed voltage. A somewhat comparably-shaped sponge is fixed to the extension. A grip at the other end of the handle facilitates moving the wand so that a tapering straight edge and/or the rounded point of the spade-shaped extension glides over the back's skin when searching for trigger points, and for holding the rounded point there when a trigger point is located to enable precise electrically stimulation of the tissue near the trigger point.
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patent: 1612343 (1926-12-01), Amussen
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DeMille Danton D.
Smith William Arthur
Taphorn Joseph B
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