Surgery: kinesitherapy inventions 08/06

20060195052 - Method for massaging a body lying on a lie-down massager: A method for massaging a body lying on a horizontally leveled upper surface portion of a lie-down massager which includes a pressure applying member, comprises the steps of reciprocating the pressure applying member between a first end and a second end of the upper surface portion in accordance with a...

20060189904 - Apparatus for applying creams/lotions: This invention relates to an applicator (1, 10b) for self application of lotions and creams to the back of a user. The applicator comprises a body section (2) having a non absorbing encasement (4), and located at each end thereof a handle (3). The body section (2) of the applicator...

20060189905 - Pressure maintained inflatable boot: An inflatable boot used for treating lower extremity injuries. The boot may encase at least a portion of a lower extremity, and may include a bladder defined by a substantially gas impermeable cover and liner. The bladder may include fluidically interconnected sole and leg portions. Additionally the boot may include...

20060184070 - External ultrasonic therapy: A coupling pad can be used with a transducer element. Ultrasound produced by the transducer element can be propagated through the coupling pad to a patient. In one arrangement, the pad is a pouch containing a pliant substance. In other arrangements, the pad is a somewhat solid member formed of...

20060184069 - Focused ultrasound for pain reduction: Methods and devices that provide ultrasonic energy used to cause one or more nerves to become dysfunctional. A nerve to be treated is placed in the focal zone of ultrasonic energy emitted by ultrasound transducer. A first level of ultrasonic energy is provided to the nerve using the ultrasound transducer,...

20060184075 - Method and device for applying pressure waves to the body of an organism: A method and device are described for applying extracorporeally generated pressure waves, specifically acoustic shock waves, to the body of an organism. The effect of the shock waves in the impacted target area of the body is measured by extracorporeally disposed detectors which record the acoustic signals, the acoustic signals...

20060184074 - Solid hydrogel coupling for ultrasound imaging and therapy: The present invention employs hydrogels as acoustic couplings for clinical applications of ultrasound imaging and therapy, but is particularly applicable to high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) based therapy. While other materials can be used, it has been determined that polyacrylamide is sufficiently robust and transmissive to withstand the high temperatures...

20060184071 - Treatment of skin with acoustic energy: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying acoustic energy to the skin whereby the wavefront can be controlled to confine the focused energy to a desired subsurface region. Acoustic waveguides are disclosed which compensate for distortions that otherwise occur when a focused acoustic beam crosses a boundary, such as the...

20060184072 - Ultrasonic medical treatment device with variable focal zone: An ultrasonic medical treatment device takes the form of an elongate probe having an elongate wave-generating concave surface with a longitudinal axis and ultrasonic electromechanical transducer elements for vibrating said concave surface to generate ultrasonic pressure waves focused along a linear locus extending parallel to said longitudinal axis. The probe...

20060184073 - Ultrasonic treatment device and treatment method using the ultrasonic treatment device: An ultrasonic treatment device includes a handpiece, a probe, a sheath, and a lifting operation portion. A distal end portion of the probe has a puncture portion that transmits ultrasonic oscillation from an ultrasonic oscillator in the handpiece to a living-body wall part and punctures the living-body wall part. The...

20060184076 - Ultrasonic device and method for treating stones within the body: A system and method to be used in ultrasonic lithotripsy of a stone in a ureter, the system including a catheter having a probe tip capable of transmitting and receiving ultrasonic energy. The catheter can include an inflatable balloon adjacent to the probe tip, the balloon capable of pooling some...

20060184077 - Method for operating a warm or hot air cabin and corresponding warm air cabin for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a warm air booth, as well as to a method for operating the same. In order to achieve particularly good treatment results, a cold medium, e.g. ice granules, snow or the like, is introduced during the warm, or hot air treatment, respectively, once or several times...

20060184078 - Apparatus for scratching beneath a covering: Apparatus for scratching beneath a covering. The apparatus includes an elongate body sized to be at least partially received between the covering and skin covered by the covering, and a protrusion extending outward from the body for scratching an outer surface of the covered skin. A cross section of the...

20060184079 - Pump assembly: A pump assembly (200) for therapeutic inflatable cell apparatus, the assembly comprising a common pump unit (210), control means (160), and, first and second valve means (201;202), each valve means comprising a cycle control valve means, said cycle control valve means being provided with at least one fluid passageway and...

20060173387 - Externally enhanced ultrasonic therapy: In one embodiment, a method for treating a vascular occlusion in a patient's body comprises exposing the vascular occlusion to an external ultrasonic energy field that is generated outside the patient's body. The method further comprises positioning an ultrasound radiating member in the patient's body in the vicinity of the...

20060173386 - Injection distraction device: A system for mitigating pain in a patient associated with needle penetration in the administration of medication, and in particular to a vibratory device configured to be utilized with a variety of existing hand-held intra-oral dental drills or like devices. The preferred embodiment of the present invention teaches a disposable...

20060173385 - Ultrasound probe having a central opening: The invention relates to an ultrasound probe having a central opening (22) in an arrangement for ultrasound treatment of a patient. The probe has a front portion adapted to be placed at, against or in an object to be treated and is arranged to emit an ultrasound field having an...

20060173388 - Method for effecting local increases in temperature inside materials, particularly body tissue: Local tissue areas should be thermally destroyed when using ultrasound thermotherapy. Traditionally, mono-frequency continuous wave ultrasound signals are used to this end. These lead to a non-optimal distribution of heat or to a non-optimal localization of the heating inside the tissue. In practice, the following dosage problem arises: the prevention...

20060173389 - Reflex massager: The REFLEX MASSAGER is a plastic hand-held, non-electric, massager for the human body. The massager consists of a handle with massaging balls attached by flexible spring coils to the ends of the handle/base unit. The massaging balls of the massager comes in contact with the skin and are rolled all...