120 results about "Heat therapy" patented technology

This invention relates primarily to a therapeutic method comprising the use of a flexible outer cover that allows quick and easy alternating insertions of separate heat and cold packs, and is attached using an adhesive layer or safety pins to a garment at a location on the garment that is in close contact with an injured area of the body when the garment is worm, to provide alternating cold and hot or hot and cold therapeutic treatments and to a contrasting thermal device comprising a flexible outer cover for use in this method, and an article of manufacture comprising said flexible outer cover and other optional elements to form said contrasting thermal device.

A non-invasive device for assisting the treatment of any kind of musculoskeletal disorder, including but not exclusive of those of joint, limb, and spine disorders, includes a brace, sleeve, flexible pad, or any combination of the three, a plurality of electrodes disposed thereon, wherein the plurality of electrodes transmit at least three electrophysical modalities, and a stimulation control unit having interactive software to establish a controlled sequence of transmission of the at least three electrophysical modalities and communicating the controlled sequence to the electrodes. The at least three electrophysical modalities are chosen from a group consisting of neuromodulating functional electrical stimulation, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, pulsed electromagnetic field stimulation, and heat therapy stimulation. The stimulation control unit also provides feedback data using the electrodes for monitoring and integration with the interactive software to analyze and assess biomechanical, neuromuscular, and neurological responses to the device.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for heating via infrared radiation. The invention may incorporate a heating pad, safe to the touch, for therapeutic treatment. A heating pad according to the present invention may comprise of layers, such as a heat generation layer, electrically insulating layers, radiation permeable layers, with a sealed cover enclosing the entire pad. This invention is especially useful for heat therapy when a heat pad is applied to the skin of a human or an animal.

A closed loop heat therapy blanket provided for warming a patient to prevent or treat hypothermia. The closed loop heat therapy blanket includes first and second sheets secured to each other such as to define a supply manifold, at least one supply duct, a return manifold and a return duct. The first sheet defines a supply inlet opening into the supply manifold and a return outlet opening from the return duct. Heated air is introduced into the supply manifold and travels through to the return outlet and through an outlet hose. As the heated air travels through the blanket, a portion is communicated through the second sheet and toward the patient. A heat source is provided for collecting and heating ambient air, and for collecting preheated air from the outlet hose. In one embodiment, a humidifier is provided for controlling the moisture in the air being directed toward the patient.

A magnetic nanoparticle-human liver cancer resistant monoclonal antibody Hab18 or its fragment Hab18F (abí»)2 or Hab18Fab as the target medicine in the form of injection for preventing and treating the liver cancer, stomach cancer and intestinal cancer by magneto-thermal therapy is proportionally prepared from magnetic nanoparticles and said antibody. Under the action of magnetic field, it can generate the heat 10-7000 W/gFe to kill cancer cells.

An apparatus for a heated surgical drape device including a surgical drape with an integral convective heat therapy portion. The surgical drape is attached to the convective heat therapy portion. In various embodiments, the surgical drape includes a surgical drape with removable sections that allow access to the body of the patient during surgery, at least one pocket, and an integral window adjacent the head of the patient to allow viewing of the head of the patient. The convective heat therapy portion is a tubular device formed of sheets joined together and sized to allow the patient to rest within a pair of tube sections. The convective heat therapy portion has a plurality of exhaust openings that exhaust heated air toward the patient. In one embodiment, the tubular device has wing sections that are adjacent the outstretched arms of the patient.

An apparatus and method for performing warming therapy is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a patient support platform, a patient chamber, a heating source, and a rigid connection member for connecting hoses to the patient chamber. The rigid connection member provide an interface between hoses disposed inside the patient chamber, and hoses disposed outside. The connection member preferably includes one or more interconnection nozzles, removably attached thereto, for connecting the internal hoses to the external hoses. Each of the interconnection nozzles preferably includes an interior connection surface exposed to an interior of the patient chamber, and an external connection surface exposed to an external of the patient chamber.

A heat therapy for thermally treating a target tissue within a living body by using a treating apparatus including a treating device with a magnetic part is provided. The magnetic part is heated to a first temperature by a high frequency electromagnetic field with a heating rate ranging from 1 to 5° C./sec, wherein the magnetic part is contacted the target tissue. Temperature controlling steps are performed to the magnetic part having the first temperature, and therefore the magnetic part has a final temperature higher than the first temperature, and a treatment is performed to the target tissue under the final temperature. Each of the temperature controlling steps is a heating step, a cooling step or a temperature conservation step, and the magnetic part is heated or cooled by the high frequency electromagnetic field with a heating rate or a cooling rate ranging from 1 to 5° C./sec.

A method for treating conditions responsive to heat therapy and monitoring such treatments to determine efficacy. The method includes the step of diagnosing a patient to determine if heat therapy is a proper treatment. If so, then the steps of applying heat therapy and monitoring at least one parameter associated with the patient is performed. The data collected is then trended to determine the efficacy of the heat therapy. If the efficacy indicates that the therapy is beneficial, then the steps of applying therapy, monitoring the at least one parameter, and trending the data are repeated. The heat therapy is performed by a thermal pad that applies heat with a controlled temperature to a body portion of the patient. The at least one parameter is selected from the set including perfusion index, blood oxygenation, pulse rate, local skin temperature, body core temperature, heat therapy temperature, and/or ambient temperature

An electrically conductive and compressive wrap is provided having at least a liner of fabric that electronically emits infrared heat therapy to aid electrotherapy into a patient. The conductive wrap emits a low-level pulsed electrical signal associated with the treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The low-level pulse is provided at low amplitude where is it not physically perceived by the user, but at a level that closely mimics the electrical signal that occurs in naturally healing cartilage. The conductive silver fabric serves as an electrode that delivers optimal distribution of current around anatomically adapted, interchangeable and wearable therapy pads for interchangeable use with the therapy system of the present invention. Each pad includes an electrical insulative liner that keeps current applied to the desired area, and a compression cover to simultaneously deliver a therapeutic amount of compressive force to the area.

A thermotherapeutic Chinese-medicinal eye mask for treating ophthalmopathy is composed of an eye mask body and external fixing band. Said eye mask body is divided into front chamber and back chamber by a isolating layer. A heater is contained in back chamber. The Chinese medicine prepared from 13 Chinese-medicinal materials including Chinese angelica root, Chuan-xiong rhizome, safflower, borneol, etc is contained in front chamber.

A heat therapy device, in particular an incubator, for treating newborn children, has a bordered lying surface (4) freely accessible from above for accommodating a newborn child. A hood (18) can be moved between a closed position in which the bordered lying surface (4) is covered and an open exposed bordered lying surface position. A radiation heater (16) is suspended from a support structure (8) and is directed at the surface (4), in such a way that, after the movement from the closed position to the open position, the end (18b) of the hood facing the support structure (8) lies vertically at least at the height of the radiation heater (16) and lies horizontally further from the support structure (8) than the radiation heater, such that the hood (18) assumes a position outside of a radiation cone (16a) from the radiation heater (16) onto the lying surface (4).

The boiling water injection probe type heat therapeutic apparatus for heat therapy of local tumor comprises needle and needle tube. Said needle comprises external shell, T-shaped internal shell with central blind hole inner cavity and piston push-injectiar bar which is mounted and tightly slided in the central blind hole iner cavity, the rear end of the external shell is fixedly welded on the lower end surface of rear portion flange of T-shaped internal shell, and the cylinderical front portion of T-shaped internal shell is concentrically positioned in the cylindrical external shell, and between the internal shell and external shell there is a vacuum chamber; the needle tube is fixed welded in the front end of the needle, and its needle head is formed from external tube, internal tube and welded component fixed in front end of needle head.

The invention relates to an antineoplastic nanometer heat sensitive target medicinal carrier used combined with chemical therapy and heat therapy, wherein the nano heat-sensitive targeting medicinal carrier employs amphiphilic segmented copolymer micelle, the hydrophobic fragments form inner cores, the hydrophilic fragments form outer-shells, the outer-shells surround the inner cores. the hydrophilic fragments comprise heat-sensitive polymers with a low critical solution temperature at 37-42 deg. C, the hydrophobic fragments comprise polylactic acid. The invention can avoid the injury to normal human tissue cells by chemotherapy medicaments.

The present invention relates to a high-frequency heat therapy electrode device, and one embodiment of the present invention provides a high-frequency heat therapy electrode device provided with an electrode needle disposed in front of a handle, which necrotizes a lesion site by cauterizing the site by means of the high-frequency heat generated from the electrode needle. The high-frequency heat therapy electrode device equipped with a flexible tube is characterized in that: a flexible tube of a prescribed hardness, but that can be easily bent and deformed, is disposed between the handle and the electrode needle such that the needle can be inserted, along the working channel of an endoscope, up to a lesion site and the electrode needle is provided with a cooling line in the inside thereof.

An apparatus and method for self calibration of ‘cun’ measurements comprising, a rubber tubing or other tubing with elastic properties, a set of concave shaped beads fixed on the two ends of the rubber tubing to act as hand grips, a set of four colored beads that move freely along the rubber tubing, placing the widest portion of the thumb between the blue and green colored beads to calibrate the 1 ‘cun’ measurement, placing the index finger and the middle finger between the green and yellow beads to calibrate the 1.5 ‘cun’ measurement and placing all four fingers between the yellow and orange beads to calibrate the 3 ‘cun’ measurement. The self calibrated apparatus can be placed on any part of the body to locate acupuncture points for treatment with acupuncture needles, patches, or other forms of stimulation such as heat therapy, laser therapy, acupressure and electrical stimulation.

The present invention discloses a heat therapy kit for malignant tumor treatment that comprises a pharmaceutical agent containing anti-regulatory T cell antibody and a pharmaceutical agent containing magnetic fine particles, and a heat therapy method that uses that kit.