164 results about "Electroacupuncture" patented technology

An electro-acupuncture device for controlling over active bladder is described. The device includes a housing, circuitry for generating electro-acupuncture stimulus disposed within the housing, and at least one strap for securing the housing to the ankle. The device also includes a pair of D-shaped electrodes received within the bottom outer surface of the housing. The housing of the device is flexible with a low profile and is shaped so that it is conformal to a person's ankle. When the device is strapped to a patient's ankle, the electrodes contact the ankle and provide electric stimulation to the tibial nerve within the ankle.

The method of reducing pain in a patient by combining a traditional pharmacological treatment with electro-acupuncture or percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation therapy. The pharmacological treatment consists of using analgesics such as morphine sulfate and hydromorphine provided to patients around the clock or as needed for pain. The patient controlled analgesia pump (PCA) is used by patients for self-administering of analgesia as needed. After patient stops using PCA pump narcotic and non-narcotic pain medications are administered mostly orally. Typically, there are two pairs of needle electrodes, two on each leg, connected to two separate outputs of the portable electrical stimulator. The constructions of the needle holder and the stimulator allow a patient to move freely and, if necessary, to carry the device during the entire day.

An implantable electroacupuncture device (IEAD) treats a medical condition of a patient through application of electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation pulses applied at a target tissue location, such as an acupoint. The IEAD comprises an implantable, coin-sized, self-contained, leadless electroacupuncture device having at least two electrodes attached to an outside surface of its housing. The device generates EA stimulation pulses in accordance with a specified stimulation regimen. Power management circuitry within the device allows a primary battery, having a high internal impedance, to be used to power the device. The stimulation regimen generates stimulation pulses during a stimulation session of duration T3 minutes applied every T4 minutes. The duty cycle, or ratio T3 / T4, is very low, no greater than 0.05. The low duty cycle and careful power management allow the IEAD to perform its intended function for several years.

The invention relates to an intelligent body-shaping garment system with an electric needle stimulation function, and belongs to the technical field of physiotherapy body shaping. The intelligent body-shaping garment system comprises a garment body, a cloud service center, a mobile terminal, a microcontroller module, a DDS (direct digital synthesis) digital control frequency source, a stimulation generator module, an acupoint physiological parameter feedback circuit, a frequency and amplitude tracking circuit, a protection circuit and electronic silver needles; by combining the body-shaping garment and the electric needle stimulation, the electric needle stimulation device is additionally arranged on the garment; by mapping into the electric signal parameters by features of a traditional needle puncturing method, the corresponding relationship is established, the intensity, frequency, change and duration of the electric needle electric stimulation are adjusted by mobile terminals of a cloud platform, a mobile phone and the like, the particular acupoints of a human body are stimulated, and the purposes of weight losing and body shaping are easily realized; the expense of a large amount of time and money of a user is reduced. The intelligent body-shaping garment system has the advantages that the functions are perfect, the convenience in use is realized, the requirements of personalizing and safety are met, and the purposes of weight losing and body shaping are easily realized at any time and place.

The invention provides an intelligent electric acupuncture apparatus. The electric acupuncture apparatus comprises an acupuncture point positioning and monitoring module, a main control module, a treatment scheme generation module, a treatment mode adjusting module, an electric pulse stimulation signal generation module, a display module, and a power module. The electric acupuncture apparatus can achieve the automatic positioning of the position of an acupuncture point, thereby enabling a user to be able to carry out electric acupuncture treatment more conveniently. Meanwhile, the electric acupuncture apparatus can intelligently adjust the treatment mode in a treatment process according to a treatment effect, thereby improving the intelligentization of the electric acupuncture apparatus.

An acusector and electrical stimulus therapeutic instrument which can output various wave shapes comprise a power circuit and an acusector probe as well as a micro control unit (MCU), a protection circuit, a D / A converter, a bipolar power output circuit and a keyboard input part; wherein, the power circuit is connected with the MCU, the keyboard input part and the D / A converter are respectively connected with the MCU by data buses, the output end of the D / A converter is connected with the input end of the bipolar power output circuit, and the output end of the bipolar power output circuit is connected with the input end of the protection circuit; the output end of the protection circuit is respectively connected with the MCU and the input end of the acusector probe. The invention can output various therapeutic wave shape signals with different multipath wave shapes and independent bipolarity, can use the basic acusector, electrical stimulus and dedicated prescription acusector or electrical stimulus by combination, thus realizing keeping classic acupuncture manipulation and electrical stimulation therapy wave shape while considering individual differences and endurance of patients at utmost to achieve better effect of therapy.

The invention discloses a digital insomnia therapy instrument and a therapy method. The digital insomnia therapy instrument comprises an acusector or an electrode plate, a central processing unit, a memory, a sleep brain wave collecting module, a sleep rhythm extracting module, a sleep rhythm combining module, a digital-to-analog (D / A) converting circuit, a filter circuit, a sampling circuit and a pulse amplifying circuit, wherein the memory, the sleep brain wave collecting module, the sleep rhythm extracting module and the sleep rhythm combining module are respectively connected onto the central processing unit, the D / A converting circuit, the filter circuit, the sampling circuit and the pulse amplifying circuit are sequentially connected between the sleep brain wave collecting module and the acusector or the electrode plate. Therefore, sleep brain wave signals are subjected to collection, extraction, combination, digital-to-analog conversion, filtering, sampling and amplification, medical pulse signals are formed, the medical pulse signals are exerted on an acupuncture needle or the electrode plate and are guided into the brain of an insomnia patient through relevant acupuncture points for inducing the brain of the patient to generate sleep waves or enhancing weak sleep waves generated in the brain of the patient, so the patient enters the sleep state and gradually enters the deep sleep state.

Laser needle for performing a combined laser needle / electric acupuncture includes an optical fiber, the optical fiber being configured for transmitting a laser beam. Laser needle includes a current-conducting jacket, the current-conducting jacket being configured for surrounding the optical fiber, and the current-conducting jacket being configured for applying current-conducting stimulation current to tissue of a patient, in use, in addition to a laser beam being applied through the optical fiber, in use. A bottom end of the current-conducting jacket transitioning into a disk, the disk being configured for distributing the stimulation current on a larger area; and the disk being configured for simultaneously serving to attach the laser needle to the body of a patient, in use.

The invention discloses an intelligent acupuncture system. The intelligent acupuncture system comprises an acupuncture electric needle, a storage device and a reminding device which are connected with a control device. The acupuncture electric needle is connected with a force feedback instrument which is connected with the control device. The control device is used for reading feedback data of the force feedback instrument and transmitting the data to the reminding device. The acupuncture electric needle is used for outputting corresponding pulse current for acupuncturing the needle inserting position according to treatment parameter information. The reminding device is used for reminding a user of case acupuncture scheme information. By means of the system, the user can acupuncture a patient according to the acupuncture scheme information of which the user is reminded by the reminding device; the system is particularly suitable for medical staff lack of experience, and medical staff can conduct acupuncture treatment according to the needle inserting position and needle inserting depth provided by experienced medical staff; when the system is used in cooperation with the electric needle, the treatment effect is better, and a path is laid for large-area popularization of acupuncture treatment.

The invention discloses a medium-high frequency electrical acupuncture instrument, and belongs to the field of medical instruments. The instrument comprises a signal generator, a power amplifier, an output isolation transformer, and a single-chip microcomputer controller. The instrument is characterized in that the output end of a stabilized-voltage power supply is connected with the input end of the signal generator and the input end of a Hall sensor; the output end of the signal generator is connected with the input end of the power amplifier; the output end of the power amplifier is connected with the input end of the output isolation transformer; the output end of the Hall sensor is connected with the input end of a relay and the single-chip microcomputer controller; the output end of the single-chip microcomputer controller is connected with the input of the relay; and the output end of the relay is connected with the input end of the power amplifier. The instrument enables a current to be inputted into a body through a needle body, so as to achieve a purpose of treatment and disease prevention. The instrument can enable a medium-high frequency current with a good biological effect to accurately and effectively act on a disease part, thereby greatly improving the clinic treatment effect.

An exemplary method of treating a chronic low back pain condition in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at at least one of acupoints BL22, BL23, BL24, BL25, and BL26 within the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of T3 to T4 and each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of T3 minutes and occurs at a rate of once every T4 minutes, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to the target tissue location in accordance with the duty cycle.

The invention discloses a paralyzed limb movement control method based on acupuncture point functional electrical stimulation. Body surface myoelectrical signals when healthy limbs move are collected by using a body surface exploring electrode array, signal processing such as amplification and filtering is carried out on the collected myoelectrical signals through a signal processing circuit, then the myoelectrical signals are transmitted to a stimulating signal generating circuit through a communication channel to generate stimulation signals, and lastly, the stimulation signals are applied to a needle-shaped or concentric circle stimulating electrode array of an assigned acupuncture point of the paralyzed limb to achieve the movement of the paralyzed limb. According to the paralyzed limb movement control method based on the acupuncture point functional electrical stimulation, the mode of electric needle stimulation is adopted, body surface stimulation is changed into body internal stimulation on meridian points, an acupuncture therapy is inherited and developed, the advantages of being good in selectivity and high in sensitivity are achieved, and the paralyzed limb movement control method based on the acupuncture point functional electrical stimulation can be applied to sites such as control over movements of the paralyzed patient limbs caused by various injuries and diseases.

The invention discloses an intelligent traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment robot and a use method thereof. The intelligent traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis comprises bottom moving wheels, a robot body, transmission large arms, a ventilation and heat dissipation plate and an electroacupuncture therapeutic device. A protection bottom plate is arranged above the bottom moving wheels. A robot body is connected above the protection bottom plate in a clamping manner. The transmission large arms are arranged on the two sides of the robot body, and the end portions of the transmission large arms are connected with connecting small arms through pin shafts. The intelligent traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment robot has the beneficial effects that firstly, computer memory is used, diagnosis and treatment theories and principles of medical classics such as the Emperor After and the Febrile Disease are collected and taken as the basis, an analyzing function ofa computer is used so that disease causes can be rapidly and correctly found and illness states can be diagnosed, corresponding classical prescriptions and proved recipes are used by suiting the case, and the purposes that traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment are simple and convenient are achieved; and secondly, the difficulty that treatment and judgment of doctors on illness states and disease causes of patients are biased due to influences of surrounding environments, personal characters, personal emotions and self physical conditions is overcome.

An exemplary method of treating obesity or dyslipidemia of a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at an acupoint corresponding to at least one of a saphenous nerve and a peroneal nerve of the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device in accordance with the duty cycle, the stimulation sessions to at least one of the saphenous nerve and the peroneal nerve by way of a central electrode and an annular electrode located on a housing of the electroacupuncture device.

An exemplary method of treating obesity or dyslipidemia of a patient using a small implantable electroacupuncture device (IEAD) includes 1) implanting the IEAD below the skin surface of the patient at or near a target tissue location selected from the group of target tissue locations comprising acupoints ST36, SP4, ST37, ST40, SP6, SP9, K16, LR8 and their underlying nerves, the saphenous nerve and the peroneal nerve, and 2) enabling the IEAD to provide EA stimulation pulses in accordance with a stimulation regimen that provides a stimulation session having a duration of T3 minutes at a rate of once every T4 minutes, where the ratio of T3 / T4 is no greater than 0.05, and wherein T3 is at least 10 minutes and no greater than 60 minutes.

An acupuncture needle type radio frequency electric needle is characterized by comprising a needle body (1), a radio frequency output end (2), scale mark sections (3), a breakdown-resistant insulating coating (4), a rotating handle (5) and a fixed positioning base (8). The radio frequency output end (2) is located at one end of the needle body (1). The rotating handle at the other end of the needle body (1) is connected with a medical high-frequency instrument device (11). The breakdown-resistant insulating coating (4) is arranged on the rest part of the needle body (1). The top end of an acupuncture needle is coated with an anti-adhesion coating, then the needle body is coated with the high-voltage-resistant insulating coating and the scale mark sections, and assistance of the fixed positioning base is achieved. The handle of the needle body can be connected with an electrical stimulation instrument, an electrocoagulation instrument, a radio frequency instrument, a microwave instrument and other medical high-frequency instrument devices. The acupuncture needle type radio frequency electric needle has the purposes of multi-functional electric needles such as the acupuncture needle, a radio frequency needle and an electrocoagulation needle.

An implantable electroacupuncture device (IEAD) treats a specified medical condition of a patient through application of electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation pulses applied substantially at or near a specified acupoint, its underlying nerves, or other target tissue location. The IEAD includes an IEAD housing having an electrode configuration thereon that includes at least two electrodes, and pulse generation circuitry located within the IEAD housing and electrically coupled to the at least two electrodes. The pulse generation circuitry is adapted to deliver stimulation pulses to the patient's body tissue at or near the target tissue location in accordance with a specified stimulation regimen, the stimulation regimen requiring that the stimulation session have a duration of T3 minutes and a rate of occurrence of once every T4 minutes, and wherein a ratio of T3 / T4 is no greater than 0.05.

An exemplary electroacupuncture device may be implanted beneath a skin surface of a patient at a location corresponding to a joint affected by osteoarthritis and may perform methods for treating the osteoarthritis. In some implementations, the electroacupuncture device is powered by a primary battery located within the electroacupuncture device and having an internal impedance greater than 5 ohms and a capacity of less than 60 milliamp-hours (mAh).

The invention discloses an acoustic, optic and electric heart cerebrovascular disease therapy apparatus, which consists of a single chip, a programmable extension device, an electric stimulus circuit, an ultrasonic circuit and a laser circuit, wherein the electric stimulus circuit consists of an electric pulse signal synthesizer, a variable gain attenuator, a No.1 electric needle and a No.2 electric needle; the variable gain attenuator consists of first and second wideband power amplifier and a second digital potentiometer; the ultrasonic circuit consists of a sine wave generator, a first digital potentiometer, an integrated four-operational amplifier, a push-pull power amplifier and five ultrasonic probes; and the laser circuit consists of a latch, a multi-channel selection analog switchand a laser head. The therapy apparatus integrates three therapy means of low-frequency electric needles, laser and ultrasonic to supplement each other, can be used separately and compatibly, remarkably improves the therapy effect, and achieves the effect of half work with double results.

A method of treating a mental disorder of a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at or near an acupoint corresponding to at least one of a trigeminal nerve and an occipital nerve of the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to at least one of the trigeminal nerve and the occipital nerve by way a central electrode and an annular electrode located on the electroacupuncture device in accordance with the duty cycle.

A method of treating hypertension in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at an acupoint corresponding to a target tissue location within the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of T3 to T4, each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of T3 minutes and occurs at a rate of once every T4 minutes, and the electroacupuncture device comprises a central electrode of a first polarity and an annular electrode of a second polarity and that is spaced apart from the central electrode; and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to the target tissue location by way of the central electrode and the annular electrode in accordance with the duty cycle.

An exemplary method of treating a chronic low back pain condition in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at at least one of acupoints BL22, BL23, BL24, BL25, and BL26 within the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of T3 to T4 and each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of T3 minutes and occurs at a rate of once every T4 minutes, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to the target tissue location in accordance with the duty cycle.

The present invention is one kind of insulated electrical puncture needle with functions of local puncturing, electric treatment and medicine injection in disease diagnosis and treatment. The insulated electrical puncture needle features the surface covered with a harmless insulating material layer, and has smooth surface, high flexibility, resistance to high temperature and high pressure sterilization, acid and alkali corrosion resistance and capacity of current interference on health tissue during treatment. It has several diagnosis and treatment uses, including local ion implantation, low frequency electric stimulating treatment, etc. Beside, it has diameter smaller than that of conventional puncture needle.

The invention discloses an electric acupuncture instrument which is used for solving a problem, which exists in the prior art, that therapy is discontinued because of electricity run-out generated when an electric acupuncture instrument is powered by a battery or an external power supply or the moving range of a user is restrained because of effect of the length of a power line. The electric acupuncture instrument includes a nano generator, a first electric acupuncture electrically connected with a first output end of the nano generator and a second electric acupuncture electrically connected with a second output end of the nano generator, wherein the nano generator is used for converting mechanical energy into electric energy and providing current to the first electric acupuncture and the second electric acupuncture and the first electric acupuncture and the second electric acupuncture are used for being placed at human body acupuncture points to realize acupuncture.

An exemplary method treating a cardiovascular disease in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at an acupoint corresponding to a median nerve of the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of T3 to T4, each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of T3 minutes and occurs at a rate of once every T4 minutes, and the electroacupuncture device comprises a central electrode of a first polarity and an annular electrode of a second polarity and that is spaced apart from the central electrode; and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to the median nerve by way of the central electrode and the annular electrode in accordance with the duty cycle.

An exemplary electroacupuncture device may be implanted beneath a skin surface of a patient at a location corresponding to a joint affected by osteoarthritis and may perform methods for treating the osteoarthritis. In some implementations, the electroacupuncture device is powered by a primary battery located within the electroacupuncture device and having an internal impedance greater than 5 ohms and a capacity of less than 60 milliamp-hours (mAh).

An electroacupuncture needle may be provided that includes: a body which includes at least one boundary line having discontinuous electrical conductivity; and an end which is formed to have a pointed shape allowing the electroacupuncture needle to be easily inserted into the skin of a subject.

The combination microarray patch for drug delivery and electrochemotherapy device is a medical device for delivering two separate pharmaceutical preparations to a patient, as well as providing electrostimulation for electroactive pharmaceuticals. A first pharmaceutical preparation is manually delivered into the patient through a first set of drug delivery needles. Similarly, a second pharmaceutical preparation is manually delivered into a patient through a second set of drug delivery needles. A desired electrical potential may then be selectively applied across first and second sets of electrotherapy needles for electroporation to facilitate delivery of the pharmaceutical preparations. The second pharmaceutical preparation may be a conjugate of the first for targeted drug delivery.

An exemplary electroacupuncture device includes a central electrode of a first polarity centrally located on a surface of a housing of the electroacupuncture device and an annular electrode of a second polarity that is spaced apart from the central electrode. The electroacupuncture device is implanted beneath a skin surface of a patient at an acupoint corresponding to a tibial nerve and performs methods for treating overactive bladder in the patient. One exemplary method performed by the electroacupuncture device includes generating stimulation sessions each including a series of stimulation pulses and having a duty cycle less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of a duration of each stimulation session to a rate at which each stimulation session occurs. The exemplary method also includes applying the stimulation sessions to the tibial nerve by way of the central electrode and the annular electrode in accordance with the duty cycle.