Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1995-05-09
1996-07-09
Sykes, Angela D.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128740, 128741, A61B 300
Patent
active
055335144
ABSTRACT:
In the algometry management method and system, a computer apparatus is used to select points of a patient's body on which pain sensitivity pressure measurements have to be made, to determine a sequence of these selected points, and to indicate the selected points one by one to an operator according to the sequence. A pressure algometer is used by the operator to apply pressure to each point of the sequence indicated and to measure the pressure being applied when a patient's threshold of pain is reached, this pressure measurement constituting a pain sensitivity pressure measurement. The computer apparatus also receives the pain sensitivity pressure measurement from the algometer for each point of the sequence, and stores the received pain sensitivity pressure measurements in a file associated to the patient. The method and system also ask to the patient a subjective indication of the intensity of pain and degree of discomfort he felt upon application of pressure to each point of the patient's body. A visual analog scale unit is provided to allow the patient to give this subjective indication of the intensity of pain and degree of discomfort he felt.
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Lavigne Gilles
Tenbokum Leo
Huang Stephen D.
Sykes Angela D.
Universite de Montreal
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