Surgery – Magnetic field applied to body for therapy
Patent
1996-02-05
1998-08-04
Lacyk, John P.
Surgery
Magnetic field applied to body for therapy
600 15, A61N 200
Patent
active
057886245
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a magnetic therapeutic method and a magnetic-field scanning physiotherapeutic device, especially relates to a magnetic therapeutic treatment method which provides a transient penetration of magnetic flux through the human (or animal) body and performs a magnetic field scanning of the whole or partial human (or animal) body, and a physiotherapeutic treatment device of magnetic-field scanning performing the said method.
BACKGROUND OF THE TECHNOLOGY
There are a variety of treatment and health-care methods and devices which involve the application of magnetic fields to animal and human bodies, such as magnetic watches, rings, beds, vests, spectacles, belts, shoes, cushions, sofas, etc., which are available on the market and which all share the feature of applying magnetism locally on human body for treatment and health-care. Moreover, Chinese patent applications No. 88102352.3, 89201090.8, 89208486.3, 91111260.X, European patents No. 88402059.5, 91403092.9 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,084,003, etc., have all reported magnetotherapeutic devices, methods of application of magnetism to disease treatment and health-care, and their effects.
These magnetotherapeutic methods and devices available on the market and reported in technical literature have, however, all in common the following drawbacks.
1. Surface application of magnetism only, which is unable to allow the magnetic flux to penetrate deeper into the body. This is because most of the magnetic devices now available, including magnetic watches, finger-rings, beds, vests, spectacles, belts, shoes, back cushions and sofas, employ single piece magnet to apply magnetism on the surface of a portion of the body receiving treatment. If it is allowable that a magnetic field may effect treatment of the human body to a certain extent, then it can be seen that such superficial and local single piece magnet application, with only one magnetic pole facing a local surface of the human body, has, in fact, very limited effect. There have been reported some cases of local hyperemia caused by such local, stationary and prolonged application of magnetism. For example, patients wearing magnetic watches for treatment may suffer from a blue, swollen wrist, which serves to prove that a local and prolonged application of magnetism may have some adverse effect on the human body.
2. Indirect application of magnetism, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of magnetizing treatment. A typical case in point is the magnetism-treated (magnetized) drinking water for animals and human beings. Facts show that the practice of consistently drinking water that has been magnetized through appropriate magnetic treatment has some effect in the prevention and treatment of cholelithiasis and urolithiasis. However, the effect is very limited since it is achieved just by the process of magnetizing the water before drinking and allowing the water to go through the body by its circulating system, and possibly even substituting the magnetized water for the non-magnetized water within the human body. The magnetizing effect of drinking water after magnetic treatment decreases with time as the magnetizing field is taken away, which phenomenon is especially pronounced in the period immediately following the termination of magnetizing treatment.
Although some experiments show that the magnetobiological effect of treated water may last as long as 15 days, such an effect can only be of a reduced type as the magnetizing effect decreases, which just cannot compare with the magnetobiological effect of water that is magnetically treated simultaneously as it exerts its effect.
3. Local and stationary application of magnetism, which limits the scope of application of the therapy. Local application is similar to, yet different from, surface application. While surface application means the magnetic flux cannot penetrate into the body, local application means that magnetic field exists only in the region of application even if the magnetic flux could penetrate through the bod
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Lin Baojun
Liu Guozhang
Lu Hangcheng
Zhao Jing
Hangcheng Lu
Lacyk John P.
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