Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-19
2002-07-23
Getzow, Scott M. (Department: 3762)
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
C607S076000, C607S066000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06424864
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for therapy using a low-frequency electric current, electromagnetic wave and acoustic wave.
BACKGROUND ART
Conventionally, electric therapeutic machines have been used as a kind of physical therapy, and a part of the electric therapeutic machines includes a low-frequency therapeutic apparatus which aims at treating a disease by applying electrodes on the surface of the skin of a patient, and passing therewith a low-frequency current through the patient's body.
The low-frequency therapeutic apparatus comprises a therapeutic electrode (active electrode) applied on a site to be treated and an inactive electrode being opposite to the above electrode, and applies a low-frequency current between the two electrodes via a voltage delivered from an oscillator.
Such a low-frequency therapeutic apparatus is required, for example by Japanese Industrial Standards, to have an oscillator which can generate waves of at least one frequency for each of four bands of 5 Hz or lower, 5-50 Hz, 50-500 Hz and 500-1000 Hz.
Such a low-frequency therapeutic apparatus has been used for the purpose of, for example, prevention of disuse atrophy of paralyzed muscles, pain relief and recovery of failed local blood circulation, through stimulation by way of electric currents. Furthermore, particularly a small low-frequency therapeutic apparatus has been used for relaxing stiffened shoulder muscles.
The conventional low-frequency therapeutic apparatuses as described above have been exclusively used for stimulation of muscles, pain relief, and recovery of failed circulation, but remains practically ineffective for the treatment of definitive diseases.
And in the above low-frequency therapeutic apparatus, the affected part must be exposed in order to adhere an electrode to the skin of a patient, and in case of a female patient the affected part cannot be sometimes exposed, or in case of a critical patient or a disabled patient, he/she cannot sometimes take a posture to have an electrode adhered or to be treated.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
This invention aims at providing a wave therapeutic method, apparatus and system capable of effectively treating definitive diseases by applying at least one of a low-frequency current, an electromagnetic wave and an acoustic wave.
And this invention aims at providing a wave therapeutic method, apparatus and system capable of effectively treating definitive diseases by applying a low-frequency current and/or an acoustic wave without adhering an electrode.
The present applicant previously proposed a low-frequency therapeutic method and apparatus for performing a medical treatment by passing a low-frequency current through a human body from the skin by way of Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No.Hei 8-137950, PCT/JP97/01849, said method and apparatus performing treatment by making the frequency of said low-frequency current higher in order at intervals of a specified time within a range of at least a part of 1 to 10000 Hz.
This method is based on the findings the present inventor has obtained themselves through experimentation. Namely, the inventor has found that, when an electric current is passed through a human body, the effective lowest frequency varies according to the kind of disease, but more or less damaged cells pass more readily the current than normal cells. To put it otherwise, an electric current of a low frequency tends to pass more readily through damaged sections within a human body. Hence, when the current passing through the patient's body is gradually increased in its frequency, the most seriously damaged parts receive the current most amply at first, which are followed step by step by less damaged parts, and thus treatment proceeds from more damaged parts to less damaged parts in order.
As for the therapeutic effect, the following assumption may be offered: if for example a cell has its membrane so sclerosed as to disrupt the interchange of intracellular and extracellular fluids, or if for example a nerve cell cannot or can scarcely transmit nerve impulses as a result of sclerosis, stimulation of the cell or nerve cell by passing a weak current whose frequency is raised step by step at specified intervals will soothe the stiffness these cells have undergone to recover their normal activity which will eventually result in the subsidence of disease or healing of the disease.
Further, the present inventor has found to make it possible to annihilate virus and bacteria by means of an electric current of a specific frequency.
And the present inventor found that electric currents having specific frequencies (for example, 69 frequencies between 1 and 10000 Hz) have a particularly notable therapeutic effect, and proposed another invention selecting in advance a plurality of frequencies from among these frequencies and performing treatment using low-frequency currents of said selected frequencies.
This is because, as different cells, muscle systems, blood vessels and lymphatics, and nervous systems are involved according to the kind of disease, it is necessary for achieving a quite satisfactory therapeutic effect to choose appropriate frequencies according to the type of cells involved in the disease of interest, and to combine those frequencies for therapy.
Said plurality of frequencies include a part of 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 15, 20, 26, 60, 72, 95, 100, 120, 125, 160, 440, 448, 465, 500, 600, 625, 660, 666, 690, 700, 725, 727, 728, 730, 740, 770, 776, 787, 790, 799, 800, 802, 803, 804, 832, 840, 875, 878, 880, 885, 890, 1500, 1550, 1560, 1570, 1600, 1800, 1840, 1850, 1900, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2052, 2100, 2120, 2127, 2128, 2130, 2489, 2490, 3000, 5000 and 10000 Hz.
According to further experiments of the present inventors, it has been found that to make the respective frequencies higher or lower by 1 Hz than said plurality of frequencies is more effective.
And to generate an electromagnetic field by means of an electromagnetic wave of a specific frequency in the vicinity of a human body without adhering an electrode directly to the living body have made it possible to bring the same therapeutic effect as brought in case of adhering the electrode. Furthermore, it could be confirmed that the same therapeutic effect is obtained by injecting an acoustic wave of the same frequency as described above into a living body simultaneously with or separately from a low-frequency electric current or electromagnetic wave.
This invention is a wave therapeutic method for performing treatment by applying at least one of a low-frequency electric current, electromagnetic wave and acoustic wave to a living body, as described in claim
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, which method improves its therapeutic effect by selecting at least two frequencies from among 14, 16, 19, 21, 25, 27, 59, 61, 71, 73, 94, 96, 119, 121, 124, 126, 159, 161, 441, 447, 449, 464, 466, 499, 501, 599, 601, 624, 626, 659, 661, 665, 667, 689, 691, 699, 701, 724, 726, 727, 728, 729, 731, 739, 741, 769, 771, 775, 777, 786, 788, 789, 791, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 831, 839, 874, 876, 879, 881, 884, 886, 891, 1499, 1501, 1549, 1551, 1559, 1561, 1569, 1571, 1599, 1601, 1799, 1801, 1839, 1841, 1849, 1851, 1899, 1901, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2051, 2099, 2101, 2121, 2126, 2127, 2128, 2129, 2131, 2488, 2489, 2490, 2491, 2999, 3001, 4999, 5001, 9999 and 10001 Hz as the frequency of said electromagnetic wave and acoustic wave according to a disease and making the frequency higher in order at intervals of a specific time.
According to the present invention, which method performs treatment by;
first using as a basic therapy waves of 19, 61, 96, 124, 667, 726, 741, 786, 791, 879 and 10001 Hz in frequency in this order, and
next using waves having frequencies selected according to the kind of a disease.
According to the present invention, which method performs treatment by applying each of the waves having said selected frequencies to a human body for 2 to 5 minutes.
According to the present invention, a pause of 0 to 1 minute is provided when said selected freque
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Getzow Scott M.
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