Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Light application
Reexamination Certificate
2001-10-07
2003-03-25
Gibson, Roy D. (Department: 3739)
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Light application
C607S089000, C128S898000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06537303
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for treatment of mammals by draining lymph. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of draining lymph by the application of pulsating light to the body.
2. Description of the Related Art
Lymph is a viscous liquid, i.e., blood plasma, which transports nutritional substances to the cells in the body and drains waste products from the cells. Sometimes lymph circulation is disturbed or interrupted, which may lead to cells dying.
Until recently, drainage of lymph was performed manually in order to help the circulation of lymph within the human body. Drainage of lymph is performed using light pump-like massage movements over the body. Such movements are circle-like or have a spiral shape. By those movements one tries to drive the lymph in a correct flow direction. By influencing the transport of lymph in a positive way, waste products within the body can be removed faster.
It is considered especially important that excess proteins in cell membranes be removed, because such proteins bind liquid to the body, with the result that the body swells up.
The drainage of lymph also influences the autonomous nervous system and provides a state of comfort in a patient.
The inventor of the present invention has developed an apparatus for transmitting monochromatic light for medical treatment of the body. That apparatus and its use and benefits are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,766,233, entitled “Device for Wound Healing by Means of Light,” which issued on Jun. 16, 1998, to Rolf Thiberg; U.S. Pat. No. 5,800,479, entitled “Device for Medical External Treatment by Means of Light, which issued on Sep. 1, 1998, to Rolf Thiberg; U.S. Pat. No. D441,456 S, entitled “Skin Treatment Lamp,” which issued on May 1, 2001, to Rolf Thiberg; U.S. Pat. No. 6,238,424 B1, entitled “Device for External Treatment with Pulsating Light of High Duty Cycle,” which issued on May 29, 2001, to Rolf Thiberg; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,238,425 B1, entitled “Device for External Medical Treatment with Monochromatic Light,” which issued on May 29, 2001, to Rolf Thiberg. That treatment device has been used for treatment of wounds and pain in humans and animals. The monochromatic light is transmitted with a certain pulse repetition frequency and with a duty cycle of from about 60% to about 90%.
It has now surprisingly been discovered that a treatment using monochromatic light can be successfully employed for lymph drainage.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention thus relates to a method for draining lymph from the human or animal body by the use of a device that emits pulsating light. The device emits pulsating infrared light that pulses at a low pulse repetition frequency. In use, the light-emitting device is brought into contact with the body and is moved along the pathways of the lymph flow in a direction toward the lymphatic gland to which the pathway of the lymph vessel in question leads.
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Biolight Patent Holding AG
Gibson Roy D.
Johnson, III Henry M
Mangels Alfred J.
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