44 results about "Electric stimulation therapy" patented technology

Methods and systems involve coordinating therapies used for treating disordered breathing. Disordered breathing therapies may include cardiac electrical stimulation therapy and external respiratory therapy as well as other therapies for treating disordered breathing in a patient. The therapies delivered to the patient may be coordinated to enhance effectiveness of the therapy, to reduce therapy interactions, to improve patient sleep, or to achieve other therapeutic goals.

An implantable stimulator and monitor measures a group of heart failure parameters indicative of the state of heart failure employing EGM signals, measures of blood pressure including absolute pressure P, developed pressure (DP=systolic P-diastolic P), and/or dP/dt, and measures of heart chamber volume (V) over one or more cardiac cycles. These parameters include: (1) relaxation or contraction time constant tau (.tau.); (2) mechanical restitution (MR), i.e., the mechanical response of a heart chamber to premature stimuli applied to the heart chamber; (3) recirculation fraction (RF), i.e., the rate of decay of PESP effects over a series of heart cycles; and (4) end systolic elastance (E.sub.ES), i.e., the ratios of end systolic blood pressure P to volume V. These heart failure parameters are determined periodically regardless of patient posture and activity level. The physician can determine whether a particular therapy is appropriate, prescribe the therapy for a period of time while again accumulating the stored patient data for a later review and assessment to determine whether the applied therapy is beneficial or not, thereby enabling periodic changes in therapy, if appropriate. Drug therapies and electrical stimulation therapies, including PESP stimulation, and pacing therapies including single chamber, dual chamber and multi-chamber (bi-atrial and/or bi-ventricular) pacing can be delivered. In patient's prone to malignant tachyarrhythmias, the assessment of heart failure state can be taken into account in setting parameters of detection or classification of tachyarrhythmias and the therapies that are delivered.

An approach to providing disordered breathing therapy includes delivering electrical stimulation therapy modifying a patient's baroreflex response. Disordered breathing therapy may be delivered in response to prediction or detection of disordered breathing events. Various conditions affecting the patient may be evaluated and the baroreflex therapy modified. The therapy may be modified to improve therapy efficacy, to reduce an impact to the patient and/or to mitigate therapy interactions.

An apparatus and method for assessing myocardial wall stress is disclosed. The method may be used in conjunction with electro-stimulatory therapy for preventing or reversing ventricular remodeling. In such therapy, one or more stimulatory pulses are delivered to the heart such that a stressed region of the myocardium is pre-excited relative to other regions, thereby subjecting the stressed region to a lessened preload and afterload during systole. The unloading of the stressed myocardium over time effects reversal of undesirable ventricular remodeling.

An approach to providing disordered breathing therapy involves the use of a plurality of therapy devices to deliver a coordinated disordered breathing therapy regimen to the patient. The plurality of disordered breathing devices includes at least a therapy device that delivers an electrical stimulation therapy modulating a patient's baroreflex response. Other therapy devices may include a cardiac electrical stimulation device, an external respiratory therapy device, and/or other therapy devices used in the treatment of disordered breathing. A therapy controller coordinates the therapies delivered by the plurality of therapy devices.

An apparatus and method for reversing ventricular remodeling with electro-stimulatory therapy. A ventricle is paced by delivering one or more stimulatory pulses in a manner such that a stressed region of the myocardium is pre-excited relative to other regions in order to subject the stressed region to a lessened preload and afterload during systole. The unloading of the stressed myocardium over time effects reversal of undesirable ventricular remodeling.

The invention discloses an electric stimulation therapeutic apparatus with signal prompt, which comprises electrodes, a power supply, a microprocessor, a pulse signal generating module, a power amplifying and boosting circuit, a liquid crystal display and touch screen control panel, a recording and voice prompting module, a signal lamp and an output current detection and protection circuit. The therapeutic apparatus of the invention is provided with two groups of independent output channels, can adopt a prescription therapeutic mode and a free programming therapeutic mode, can control an amplitude, a pulse width, a frequency and a therapeutic time of a therapeutic pulse by programming with the microprocessor, realizes human-computer interaction by using the control panel and a liquid crystal display, facilitates the performance of electric stimulation therapy of doctors on patients by giving acoustic and optical command prompts and has very good rehabilitation effect on the patients suffering from I-grade to III-grade myasthenia caused by brain paralysis or other reasons.

Described are devices and methods for treating various disorders of the pelvic floor by means of electrical stimulation of the pudendal nerves, and means for delivering one or more drugs in association with such electrical stimulation therapies. One or more electrical stimulation signals are applied, and one or more drugs are infused, injected or otherwise administered, to appropriate portions of a patient's pelvic floor and the pudendal nerves or portions thereof in an amount and manner effective to treat a number of disorders, including, but not limited to, urinary voiding dysfunction, fecal voiding dysfunction, constipation, stress incontinence, urge incontinence, urinary retention disorder, sexual dysfunction, orgasmic dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, pelvic pain, prostatitis, prostatalgia and prostatodynia.

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.

Bioelectrical signals may be sensed within the brain by two or more electrodes to determine characteristics of a function of the brain. The signals obtained by the electrodes may be plotted over time to determine whether the brain function exhibits a normal or an abnormal pattern. If the brain function exhibits an abnormal pattern, an implantable medical device may dynamically determine based on the abnormal pattern and a previously-obtained plot associated with normal brain function, an appropriate electrical stimulation therapy. Application of the appropriate electrical stimulation therapy causes the brain function to shift from the abnormal pattern to the normal pattern.

The invention discloses a small acupuncture-moxibustion physiotherapy massage device. The small acupuncture-moxibustion physiotherapy massage device comprises a positioning shell, a vibration motor is arranged at the bottom end of an inner cavity of the positioning shell, an installation board is arranged on the upper surface of the vibration motor, an installation ring is arranged on the upper surface of the installation board, and acupuncture-moxibustion needle heads are arranged in the installation ring; a connecting end is arranged on the lower surface of the positioning shell and connected with a frequency converter through a wire, a battery is arranged on the lateral side of the frequency converter, and a charging hole is formed in the lateral side of the battery. According to the small acupuncture-moxibustion physiotherapy massage device, the magnetic force on an upper electromagnet and a lower electromagnet is indirectly controlled through a controller as required, the extending amount of the acupuncture-moxibustion needle heads is adjusted accordingly, the frequency converter can be controlled through the controller as required, and then the current of the adopted micro-electrical stimulation therapy is adjusted; as the independent battery is arranged, convenience is brought to utilization of people during outgoing; as the whole size is small, people can conveniently carry and use the small acupuncture-moxibustion physiotherapy massage device.

Methods for electrically stimulating body tissues to improve function or reduce symptoms provide an electrical stimulation system having two or more electrodes that are capable of being switched independently from a hyperpolarizing (depolarizing) state to a hypopolarizing state. Multiple combinations of hyperpolarizing electrodes and hypopolarizing electrodes are created by polarity switching to determine a polarity configuration having the best performance as determined by symptom reporting and clinical diagnostic tests. Polarity switching is triggered manually or is programmed to be switched automatically. Determining the configuration providing electrical stimulation resulting in the greatest benefit allows the system to be operated with one or more electrodes in a hypopolarizing state, thereby reducing energy requirements, tissue tolerance, and tissue fatigue.

Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for delivering stimulation therapy to a patient. In one example, a medical device senses, via one or more electrodes, one or more oscillations of a bioelectrical signal of a brain of a patient. In response to sensing the one or more oscillations, the medical device generates a plurality of bursts of stimulation therapy pulses, the plurality of bursts comprising an inter-burst frequency selected based on a frequency of the one or more oscillations of the bioelectrical signal. Further, the medical device delivers the plurality of bursts of stimulation therapy pulses to the patient to modulate a state of the patient associated with the one or more oscillations of the bioelectrical signal.

The invention provides equipment and a method for detecting human bodyload impedance of electric stimulation therapy equipment and belongs to the field of medical equipment. The equipment comprises an amplifier A1, wherein an inverted input end of the amplifier A1 is grounded through a sampling resistor Rs, an output end of the amplifier A1 is connected with a base of an NMOS transistor N1, a forward input end of an amplifier A2 is connected with a source of the NMOS transistor N1, an inverted input end of the amplifier A2 is connected with an output end of the amplifier A2, and the output end of the amplifier A2 outputs current detection voltage. Voltage is taken from a current sampling resistor of a constant-current source circuit, the current detection voltage is obtained after amplification by an amplifying circuit with high input impedance, judgment and calculation are performed on the basis of the obtained current detection voltage, current setting voltage, current sampling resistance as well as power voltage of the constant-current source circuit, and the value of the human bodyload impedance can be obtained. Compared with the method which cannot detect human bodyload impedance value in real time in the prior art, the equipment and the method have the advantages that output current can be regulated according to the human bodyload impedance value, and safety is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical health care, in particular to a device and method for repairing postpartum diastasis recti abdominis. The device comprises a main unit, electrode wires and electrode sheets, the main unit is internally provided with a microprocessor, a Bluetooth circuit, a liquid crystal display circuit, a key circuit, an alarming circuit, a charging management circuit, a voltage adjusting circuit, a power switching circuit, a power management circuit, a first-level boosted circuit, a second-level boosted circuit, a protection circuit, a bridge-type stimulation circuit, a waveform control circuit, a charging management circuit, a lithium battery and an adaptor, the output end of the main unit is connected with the electrode wires through the electrodesheets, the electrode sheets are applied to the human body, and diastasis recti abdominis is restored through electric stimulation therapy. The electric stimulation therapy is adopted for the deviceand method, the muscle force can be exercised and reinforced, the muscular atrophy of disuse is prevented and treated, the muscle can be subjected to functional movement, and thus diastasis recti abdominis is repaired.