Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-26
2001-10-02
O'Connor, Cary E. (Department: 3732)
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
Reexamination Certificate
active
06296652
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a therapeutic device, particularly, a therapeutic device for treating drug withdrawal syndrome.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
What is called drug withdrawal syndrome means such serious syndrome as being anger for drug, anxiety, frequently giving yawn, sweating, running with tears, running nose, drowsing, dilated pupil, being goose flesh, tremor, shivering, muscle aching, headache, losing appetite, insomnia, even blood pressure rising, frequency and depth of breath increasing, pulse quickening, restless, nausea, curling, vomiting, diarrhea, spermatorrhea, etc. occurred after stopping drug-taking.
Chemotherapy of entire course integrated the three phases addiction-removing, consolidation and rehabilitation is adopted in drug-giving-up treatment now. Body acupuncture and ear acupuncture therapies by hand-needling or electroimpulse output only are used for an auxiliary means. Modern drug-giving-up therapy is a pure chemotherapy. Addiction-removing therapy taking opium acceptor analeptic such as methadone, opium, dihydroetorphine and others or opium acceptor partial analeptic—buprenorphine as alternatives, or addiction-removing taking non-opium clonidine, existing preserving treatment taking naltrexone or methadone in consolidation therapy. The above-mentioned therapies, generally speaking, have many advantages such as reliable efficiency, fast addiction-removing action and relative safety. While there exist problems with them. These include more undesirable reaction, heavier toxic side effects, undetermined effect in giving up abuse of many drugs due to addiction to narcotic drug, trend of some medicines producing dependence, consequently treating medicines having been turned new narcotic drugs and leading new addiction to them. After addiction-removed by modern drug-giving-up treatment, some procrastinated withdrawal syndromes still exists at different extents with sufferers, even though taking naltrexone to consolidate effect, 90~95% drug-retaking rate still occurs during six months after addiction-removing treatment using different giving-up medicines in modern drug-giving-up therapy, in result, the vicious circle of habituation—addiction-removing—Addiction-recovering—addiction-re-removing almost can not be broken. The existing acupuncture or ear acupuncture therapy and electronics designed based the principle of science of acupuncture and moxibustion is a pure physical therapy, and is only used as an auxiliary means. Hand-needling treatment is not easy to master exactly and may cause pain and infection due to improper operation. Drug-giving-up effect may be unsatisfactory and unsteady when design of the devices is unreasonable, or the devices are not convenient to use due to their low automatic degree. Consequently, popularization of the treatment method in the drug-giving-up field is blocked.
Purpose of the invention is to resolve the problems above, and provides a drug-giving-up-syndrome auricle-therapeutic device having features such as safety, painless, no toxic and side effect, no addictive effect, low drug-retaking rate and better curative effect.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A therapeutic device for auricle treating syndrome during drug giving-up consists of an ear point-treating unit and controller. The controller contains CPU, data memory, control logic circuit and LC display. The feature of the therapeutic device is as fellows:
a. The ear point-treating unit consists of an ear-like frame, point electrode needles, electrode needle control mechanism and housing. The ear-like frame is a solid body profiling human ear. On the frame are made many through-going holes at those locations corresponding to standard points of human ear. In the holes are respective electric needles, which leads are connected to controller outside the housing. The ear-like frame is connected in the front of housing and protrudes beyond its front. There is electrode needle control mechanism consisting of elastomer, vibrating head, push rod, spring etc. at the rear opposite to the ear-like frame in the housing.
b. I/O terminals of CPU of the controller connect impulse output circuit and massage/acupuncture and moxibustion commutation logic circuit. Output of impulse output circuit is sent different point electrode needles and vibrating heads via output transformer. Output of commutation logic circuit synchronously controls output states of impulse output circuit and the secondary of the output transformer, to selectively control output is for electrode needle treating or vibrating head treating.
The invention contains an ear point-treating unit and controller. On one hand, it can avoid defects of chemotherapy including heavier negative effect, treatment in phases, higher drug-retaking rate after giving-up, to realizes the purpose to integrate addiction-removing, consolidation and rehabilitation as an entire course of treatment with advantages such as safe use, no toxic and side effect, no addictive effect, reduced drug-retaking rate. On other hand, the invention can eliminate inadequacy of manual operation in physical therapy in larger arbitrariness, wound pain, easy infection, inconvenience and unreasonable design of the existing devices, and realize design-reasonable, advanced, higher-automatic, non-intervening, painless, fast-effective and exactly efficient treatment. Besides, the invention has the following features:
1. Complete: means the device is suitable for entire course of treatment. It may not only be used for drug withdrawal syndrome, also for procrastinated giving-up-syndromes, and consolidation and rehabilitation as well. In addition, it is also applicable to other withdrawal syndromes caused by smoking, liquor drinking or other medicine taking.
2. Exact: means that the treating head of device adopts an ear point-treating unit in order to position ear points exactly, reliably contact auricle skin and use for positioning treatment on auricles of different profiles.
3. Good: i.e. good treating effect. When converter electroimpulse as output of control device and magnetic compound electrode of treating head act on special serious of points for treating giving-up-syndrome on auricle corresponding to shenmen point, renicapsule, heart, lung, subcortex, brain, incretion, kidney and other, the device may produce highly centralized effect combining electrotherapy, magnet therapy, acupuncture, massage, music therapy, audio and video effect to implement psychological therapy and physical therapy synchronously, continuously weaken positively strengthening effect of drug, rapidly rid negatively strengthening effect, and attenuate psychological eagerness and pain due to withdrawal syndrome, so reduce drug-retaking rate.
4. Not: means that the therapy using the device is a painless pure physical, safe and economic one without toxic and side effect, belongs to natural therapy category.
5. Convenient: i.e. what requires sufferer to do only is to switch power supply on, and slightly adjust current output as prompted by the device, treating operation is automatically implemented by the device thanks to its higher automatic control degree.
6. Wide: means that the device may be used for treatment of other diseases based the principle of the invention when electrode needles are regulated to positions of corresponding to points on auricle.
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Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
O'Connor Cary E.
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