Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Vacuum
Patent
1998-04-08
1999-10-05
DeMille, Danton D.
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Vacuum
601 6, 601 8, 601126, A61H 0700
Patent
active
059614757
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an improved apparatus making it possible, in simple and efficient fashion, to perform massaging operations, both on human beings and on animals (horses, cattle, etc.).
Various massage techniques are used, depending on the treatments to be performed, but it can be stated that they all involve exerting forces on the patient which resort to pressure and/or movement and/or pinching phenomena.
A great number of types of apparatus have to date been proposed in order to facilitate the masseur's work.
Among the various solutions which have been proposed, it has firstly been envisaged to use apparatus resorting to a simple mechanical action, for example using assemblies including small or large balls mounted on a support casing, making it possible, if appropriate, to dispense a treatment product (cream, liquid) as disclosed, particularly by FR-A-1 225,094.
It has furthermore been proposed as disclosed by FR-A-901,787, to produce massage apparatus which consist of a treatment head connected to a suction circuit, the said treatment head consisting of a casing which includes an inner chamber into which a suction circuit opens. This casing is in the form of a bell which is open at its base and whose lower edge is generally of a rounded shape. When the apparatus is applied to the patient's body, a skin fold is formed inside the bell, which fold bears directly against the peripheral edge of the latter.
A simply designed apparatus of this type is relatively difficult to employ, is difficult to move over the patient's body and exerts simply a "sucker" action.
Numerous other solutions, as disclosed by CH-A-168,279, U.S. Pat. No. 2,574,601, U.S. Pat. No. 3,297,024, FR-A-409,202, FR-A-1,590,131, have proposed to combine, with a suction phenomenon, a mechanical action exerted by the rollers or balls which make it possible to exert on the body an action of pressure and/or movement and/or friction by vibration.
The solutions proposed in these documents lead to complex assemblies which are difficult to employ and are not fully satisfactory.
Various types of massage apparatus have more recently been proposed, making it possible to perform, in simple and efficient fashion, massages of the "touching-rolling" type, allowing a continuous action to be exerted on the patient which causes not only localized pinching but also progressive movement of the pinched region, so as to cause "rolling", all this while pressure is being exerted. Apparatus of this type have, in particular, formed the subject-matter of EP-A-224,422 and 284,527 (corresponding respectively to U.S. Pat. No. 4 729,368 and U.S. Pat. No. 4 883,047), as well as WO 9603959. The disclosure contained in U.S. Pat. No. 4,729,368 is incorporated herein by reference.
In general, the apparatus described in the aforementioned documents include, mounted in casing which can be actuated by hand, two parallel rollers, preferably having a smooth surface, mounted freely or driven positively in rotation inside the casing. The rollers may be mounted on the casing either with fixed inter-axial distance or so that they can move apart from one another and back together again automatically during the massage operation. The casing is connected to suction means via a conduit whose end opens into the space contained between the rollers, which therefore allows a pressure reduction to be created between them when they are applied to the patient's body, so as to form a skin fold bearing against the surfaces of the rollers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
However, a solution has been found, and it is this which forms the subject of the present invention, which in a manner similar to the teachings of FR-A-901,787, makes it possible to perform massage by simple suction inside a chamber whose lower edges are convexly shaped, the suction forming a skin fold directly against the said edges of the chamber and which furthermore makes it possible to perform a massage of the "squeezing-rolling" type, as in the aforementioned apparatus making it possible to perform this type of mass
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DeMille Danton D.
LPG Systems
Yu Justine R.
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