Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1987-12-31
1989-09-12
Hindenburg, Max
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128421, A61N 100
Patent
active
048650480
ABSTRACT:
A medical method and apparatus consisting of a belt worn battery operated waveform generator is provided to give patients suffering from drug or alcohol withdrawal relief from severe physical symptoms associated with the initial abstinence from the drug to which they are addicted. The instant invention in principal is an advanced and more sophisticated form of electro acupuncture which rather than delivering some arbitrary electric current delivers a non-invasive and very specific electromagnetic waveform to the patient's mastoid processes behind the ear using two electrodes attached to the waveform generator. After approximately forty minutes the symptoms associated with the acute drug or alcohol withdrawal are either significantly reduced or are completely eliminated. In use, the device is typically worn by the patient during an initial three to five day abstinence period and the patient may alter the intensity of stimulation and duration of stimulation. Importantly, during stimulation the patient feels no discomfort, is totally mobile, and, since the electrodes do not pierce the skin, risk of infection or transmission of blood born infectious diseases is impossible. In addition to reducing the physical symptoms of withdrawal the method also decreases the total time of clinical and sub-clinical withdrawal state that is associated with initial abstinence from drug dependence as compared to standard therapies such as methadone substitution.
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Getzow Scott
Hindenburg Max
Kroll Michael I.
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