Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Reexamination Certificate
2001-05-11
2004-01-06
Bockelman, Mark (Department: 3762)
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
C607S155000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06675047
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to medicine and more particularly to a method of and an apparatus for electromagnetic field therapy.
BACKGROUND ART
The present invention is a logical continuation of investigations in the field of low-frequency relaxation therapy based on the action through electrodes upon biologically active points of the human body or biologically active zones of the human body with short electric pulses lasting from 0.1 ms to 100 ms and having current intensity of from 0.1 mA to 100 mA. In most cases the biologically active points coincide with classical acupuncture points accepted by various schools of traditional oriental medicine.
Known in the art are apparatus for searching for biologically active points, measuring their resistance and biologically active zones (in accordance with the Nakatani-Ryo-doraku procedure, with Doctor R. Völl's techniques, etc.), and for contact action thereon with needles, electric pulses, microwave radiation, extremely-high frequency radiation, light and laser radiation of different ranges, from the ultraviolet to infrared. In addition, these apparatus are combined with each other and bear different names: electrotherapeutics, extremely-high frequency therapy, microwave therapy, transcutaneous stimulators, laser puncture, and the like.
A feature common to all the above-named apparatus is introducing into the biologically active points and zones in various form and via them a therapeutic action upon the human organism.
A method of electromagnetic field therapy is known (RU, 2132204), consisting in that the human organism is acted upon with a pulsed electromagnetic field having an intensity of 0.1 V/m
2
without changing the energy information homeostasis with a radio pulse packet repetition frequency within a range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz with spacing of 0.01 Hz.
However, this method fails to provide harmonization of the functioning of organs and systems because of resonance phenomena induced in the organism by the prescribed frequencies. Therefore, the possibilities of this method cannot be broadened, and the treatment process cannot be automated.
An apparatus for electromagnetic field therapy is known (RU 2132204), which comprises a power supply source connected to a stabilizer, an antenna, a matching unit coupled to the antenna, a unit for shaping packets of radio pulses whose input is connected to the stabilizer and whose output is connected to the matching unit. The unit for shaping packets of radio pulses is designed as a generator of electric pulses operating in the frequency range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz, a modulator, a frequency modulation indicator, an audio frequency generator whose output is connected though the matching unit to the antenna which is made corkscrew, a control device connected to the indicator and to the generator of electric pulses. The generator of electric pulses is coupled through the modulator to the audio frequency generator. The apparatus also comprises coverlets. A screening grid is sewn into the upper textile fabric layer of one coverlet, and an antenna made from copper wire is sewn into the other.
The apparatus operates in the following manner. An apron coverlet is placed on the chest or back of a human, the plug and socket connection is effected, the switch is set to position “on”, the power supplied through the stabilizer to the generator of electric pulses in the frequency range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz, to the modulator and to the audio frequency generator. The generated oscillations modulated through the modulator from the generator of electric pulses in the frequency range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz in the form of pulse packets are fed to the matching device and come via the appropriate connector and wire to the antenna, exciting electromagnetic ultralow-intensity oscillations in the antenna circuit. These ultralow-intensity oscillations produce curative effect in the frequency range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz in accordance with Doctor R. Völl's procedure. The pulse packet repetition frequency is displayed on the indicator and selected with the help of the control device.
The present apparatus has a 5% error in setting the frequency at the edges of the range. For the therapy to be good and effective, the error in frequency setting with the quartz accuracy should not exceed 0.2%. Small organs and systems cannot be treated locally, because the effect spreads uniformly all over the organism.
With this apparatus the possibilities of the method cannot be broadened, and the treatment process cannot be automated either. This apparatus can be used for treating only various human organs, but not their functional disorders, psychic deviations connected with disturbances of the organs. This apparatus cannot ensure harmonization of the functioning of organs and systems.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to the provision of a method of and an apparatus for the electromagnetic field therapy with such an embodiment thereof which would ensure harmonization of the functioning of human organs and systems owing to the resonance phenomena induced in the organism by prescribed frequencies, and thereby broaden the possibility of their use, the treatment process being automated.
Said problem is solved by that in a method of electromagnetic field therapy, residing in that the human organism is acted upon with a pulsed electromagnetic field having an intensity of 0.1 V/m
2
without changing the energy information homeostasis with a radio pulse packet repetition frequency within a range of from 0.2 to 10 Hz with spacing of 0.01 Hz, according to the invention, additionally acts upon the human organism with a pulsed electromagnetic field with a radio pulse packet repetition frequency within a range of from 0.1 to 0.2 Hz and from 10 to 100 Hz, the electromagnetic field carrier frequency ranging from 10 to 15 kHz.
The action on the human organism with the pulsed electromagnetic field can be performed locally through the projection zone of its organ.
The action with the pulsed electromagnetic field can be performed on the whole organism.
Said problem is also solved by that the apparatus for electromagnetic field therapy, comprising a power supply source connected to a stabilizer, an antenna, a matching unit coupled to the antenna, a unit for shaping packets of radio pulses whose input is connected to the stabilizer and whose output is connected to the matching unit, according to the invention, comprises a computer interface unit, a liquid-crystal display intended for displaying the parameters of the treatment program being carried out, and a control keyboard, connected to the unit for shaping packets of radio pulses, which is made as a microprocessor controller with a permanent memory with a capacity for up to 1000 programs of treatment, up to 20 frequencies in each program, each frequency lasting for 1 to 4000 seconds.
The present invention is intended for carrying out low-frequency therapy by a non-contact method.
The apparatus is designed on the basis of combining present-day world advances in the field of acting with specific frequencies on humans and a method of acting with weak electromagnetic fields. The possibility of acting on all the meridians of the human organism simultaneously without disturbing the energy-information equilibrium is of special value, since it appreciably increases the apparatus effectiveness.
Pulse field therapy produces a complex effect on the human organism, because it contributes to an improvement in the energy metabolism, increases the mobility of lymph, enhances the blood supply of capillaries, and, as a consequence, improves nutrition of all tissues of the organism. The pulse field therapy liquidates stagnation of energy in tissues, whereby painful sensations are eliminated. The pulse therapy improves ion exchange on the level of cells, regulates the intracellular pressure, this contributing to normalization of the overall metabolism.
The size of the apparatus is small enough to carry it in one's pocket. The range of its application is very wide
Konoplev Sergei Petrovich
Konopleva Tatyana Petrovna
Bockelman Mark
Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard LLC
O'Toole J. Herbert
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