52 results about "Nerve plexus" patented technology

Methods and apparatus proved for: simultaneously monitoring at least one of nerve and muscle electrical activity on respective sides of a target plexus of a patient; identifying desired electrical activity of at least one of nerves and muscles on both sides of the target plexus based on the monitored activity; and modulating the electrical activity of the at least one of nerves and muscles on both sides of the target plexus to achieve a therapeutic result.

It has been discovered that pain felt in a given region of the body can be treated, not by motor point stimulation of muscle in the local region where pain is felt, but by stimulating muscle close to a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt. Spinal nerves such as the intercostal nerves or nerves passing through a nerve plexus, which comprise trunks that divide by divisions and / or cords into branches, comprise “nerves of passage.”

This invention presents a device, and the method it implements, which is an improvement in the design of nerve stimulators. Like conventional stimulators, it uses a percutaneous, insulated needle for the performance of therapeutic interventions targeting nerves. The improvement comprises offering an option for either constant current or constant voltage, offering a choice of waveform parameters, controlling a pulse generator, supplying a second background waveform, measuring the current and voltage applied to the tissue, computing further electrical characteristics, dynamically adjusting circuit components to ensure a desirable waveform applied to the tissue, and displaying measured and computed electrical characteristics of the tissue. The object is improved positioning of a needle tip near a nerve or nerve plexus for regional anesthesia, pain management, and other medical purposes.

It has been discovered that pain felt in a given region of the body can be treated, not by motor point stimulation of muscle in the local region where pain is felt, but by stimulating muscle spaced from a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt. Spinal nerves such as the intercostal nerves or nerves passing through a nerve plexus, which comprise trunks that divide by divisions and / or cords into branches, comprise “nerves of passage.”

Systems and methods treat hemorrhoids by introducing a treatment device into the anal canal to extend above a hemorrhoidal plexus and adjacent a tissue region containing blood vessels that feed the hemorrhoidal plexus. The systems and methods operate the treatment device to affect tissue morphology in the tissue region to occlude or otherwise reduce blood flow through the vessels.

This invention presents a device, and the method it implements, which is an improvement in the design of nerve stimulators. Like conventional stimulators, it uses a percutaneous, insulated needle for the performance of therapeutic interventions targeting nerves. The improvement comprises offering an option for either constant current or constant voltage, offering a choice of waveform parameters, controlling a pulse generator, supplying a second background waveform, measuring the current and voltage applied to the tissue, computing further electrical characteristics, dynamically adjusting circuit components to ensure a desirable waveform applied to the tissue, and displaying measured and computed electrical characteristics of the tissue. The object is improved positioning of a needle tip near a nerve or nerve plexus for regional anesthesia, pain management, and other medical purposes.

Systems and methods treat hemorrhoids by introducing a treatment device into the anal canal to extend above a hemorrhoidal plexus and adjacent a tissue region containing blood vessels that feed the hemorrhoidal plexus. The systems and methods operate the treatment device to affect tissue morphology in the tissue region to occlude or otherwise reduce blood flow through the vessels.

Recovery from peripheral nerve and nerve plexus injuries is usually slow and incomplete because the regenerating motor axons often head erroneously toward sensory receptors rather than muscle fibers and because the target muscles atrophy while waiting for the slow process of reinnervation. Research has suggested that electrical stimulation with different waveforms and temporal patterns at different times during the regeneration process might improve the clinical outcome through various mechanisms, but a practical means to deliver such stimulation has been lacking. This invention teaches the use of miniature electrical stimulators that can be implanted alongside the injured nerve(s) at the time of surgical repair and that can be powered and controlled by transmission of radiofrequency energy from outside the body so as to provide a variety of electrical stimuli at different times during the recovery process.

The present invention relates to a bendable bone plate for external fixation, comprising a main body made of flexible materials, wherein the end of the main body has a larger surface area. There are several perforations running the length of the bone plate body and more located on the larger proximal end. The characteristics of the present invention, a bendable bone plate for external fixation, deal with remote end fracture, proximal end fracture, central fracture or comminuted fracture of an upper limb long bone. Furthermore, the bendable bone plate for external fixation can be manipulated for averting the nerve plexus and traumatic wounds, allowing for external fixation surgery.

This invention presents a device, and the method it implements, which is an improvement in the design of nerve stimulators. Like conventional stimulators, it uses a percutaneous, insulated needle for the performance of therapeutic interventions targeting nerves. The improvement comprises offering an option for either constant current or constant voltage, offering a choice of waveform parameters, controlling a pulse generator, supplying a second background waveform, measuring the current and voltage applied to the tissue, computing further electrical characteristics, dynamically adjusting circuit components to ensure a desirable waveform applied to the tissue, and displaying measured and computed electrical characteristics of the tissue. The object is improved positioning of a needle tip near a nerve or nerve plexus for regional anesthesia, pain management, and other medical purposes.

The invention discloses a nerve plexus stimulation system, a nerve plexus stimulator and a nerve plexus stimulation method, which are designed to solve the problem of inaccurate nerve plexus positioning in the conventional peripheral nerve block operation. The nerve plexus stimulation system comprises the nerve plexus stimulator, an auxiliary electrode and a nerve plexus stimulating needle, wherein the auxiliary electrode and the nerve plexus stimulating needle are connected with the nerve plexus stimulator through connectors; and the nerve plexus stimulator comprises a working parameter regulating and setting module, a microprocessor, a simulative impulse transmission and control module, a display module and a power supply module. Based on the structure and simulation method, the system can position the nerve plexus objectively, directly and accurately, and thus, problems of the conventional subjective and unquantized blink detection method are solved.

Systems and methods treat hemorrhoids by introducing a treatment device into the anal canal to extend above a hemorrhoidal plexus and adjacent a tissue region containing blood vessels that feed the hemorrhoidal plexus. The systems and methods operate the treatment device to affect tissue morphology in the tissue region to occlude or otherwise reduce blood flow through the vessels.

Recovery from peripheral nerve and nerve plexus injuries is usually slow and incomplete because the regenerating motor axons often head erroneously toward sensory receptors rather than muscle fibers and because the target muscles atrophy while waiting for the slow process of reinnervation. Research has suggested that electrical stimulation with different waveforms and temporal patterns at different times during the regeneration process might improve the clinical outcome through various mechanisms, but a practical means to deliver such stimulation has been lacking. This invention teaches the use of miniature electrical stimulators that can be implanted alongside the injured nerve(s) at the time of surgical repair and that can be powered and controlled by transmission of radiofrequency energy from outside the body so as to provide a variety of electrical stimuli at different times during the recovery process.

This invention provides compositions, kits containing compositions, and methods for their use in treating subjects with pain. Instant compositions comprise two or more long acting aminoamide local anesthetics, at least one NSAID, at least one corticosteroid, at least one alpha-2 (α2) adrenergic receptor agonist, at least one N-methyl-D aspartate receptor antagonist, and optionally, epinephrine. Instant compositions are useful for infiltration anesthesia, field block anesthesia, regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve block, plexus anesthesia, epidural (or extradural) anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, local anesthesia, and transincision catheter anesthesia. The instant compositions have one or more superior properties of analgesia, duration of analgesia, safety, narcotic sparing, and motor sparing properties.

The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation systems and methods, and in particular to systems and methods for sensing blood-based parameter changes triggered by neural stimulation and subsequently optimizing the stimulation parameters based on feedback from the sensed blood-based parameter changes. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a method that includes delivering neural stimulation to a nerve or artery / nerve plexus based on a first set of stimulation parameters, monitoring a response to the neural stimulation that includes monitoring responses of the nerve or artery / nerve plexus and blood-based parameters of the artery, modifying the first set of the stimulation parameters based on the blood-based parameters to create a second set of stimulation parameters, and delivering the neural stimulation based on the second set of the stimulation parameters.

It has been discovered that pain felt in a given region of the body can be treated, not by motor point stimulation of muscle in the local region where pain is felt, but by stimulating muscle spaced from a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt. Spinal nerves such as the intercostal nerves or nerves passing through a nerve plexus, which comprise trunks that divide by divisions and / or cords into branches, comprise “nerves of passage.”

The invention provides a feed additive and applications of the feed additive in constipation of a sow. The additive comprises the following components: saccharomyces boulardii with the bacteria number not less than 5*108 / g, bacillus licheniformis with the bacteria number not less than 4*109 / g, bacillus subtilis with the bacteria number not less than 8*109 / g, xylanase with the enzyme not less than800U / g, and carrier not less than 600mg / g. For the feed additive, the saccharomyces boulardii is taken as a main body, the microbial community of the intestinal tract of the sow is adjusted, the wriggling of the intestinal tract is quickened by stimulating the nerve plexus of the intestines, so that the problem of the constipation of the sow is prevented, and due to the addition of the additive, the content of the beneficial bacterial in rear intestinal tract is improved. The invention has the advantages of safety, high efficiency, singleness, small adding amount and the like, and by using the feed additive, the constipation of the sow is alleviated, and the health condition of the sow is improved.

The invention discloses a color Doppler ultrasound puncture dual-guide control system for the department of orthopaedics. The color Doppler ultrasound puncture dual-guide control system comprises a control module, an input module, an output module and a power module, wherein the control module is connected with the input module, the output module and the power module respectively, and is further connected with an ultrasound module and a nerve stimulator module for the department of orthopaedics respectively, the ultrasound module is connected with an ultrasonic probe, and the nerve stimulator module for the department of orthopaedics is connected with a nerve stimulation needle for the department of orthopaedics. The invention aims at providing the color Doppler ultrasound puncture dual-guide control system for the department of orthopaedics, which is convenient to use, and capable of positioning the location and shape of the nerve plexus of the department of orthopaedics by double methods including images and physical function, and the system is mainly used for the puncture guide for the nerve block of the department of orthopaedics.

This invention provides illustrations that can be used as educational materials for teaching massage treatment, dermatological therapeutic techniques, dermatological diagnostics, etc.; and methods of performing and teaching massage treatment, based on new anatomical findings about cutaneous blood vessels. The illustrations have a 1st illustration, which displays anatomical characteristics of the skin, including the position and state of the cutaneous veins and valves within the veins. The method of teaching the massage treatment uses the aforesaid illustrations as teaching materials. The massage treatment includes a procedure (A) that comprises pressing, towards their respective plexuses, the thin vessels ascending from the deep dermal venous plexus and / or the subdermal venous plexus, which are formed in the deep dermal layer and / or immediately below the dermis by veins unaccompanied by arteries.

A system and method for cooling and warming the central nervous system of a patient comprises a delivery tube with one of the ends couplable to a supply of fluid. A head structure is coupled to the other end of the delivery tube and cooling or warming fluid is directed through the tube to the head structure. The head structure is configured to be placed within the rectal cavity of a patient such that either a contact surface on the head structure or the fluid itself directly contacts a portion of the rectal mucosal membrane. A means for reversing the vertebral venous flow of blood through Batson's plexus supplies cooled or warmed blood directly to the vertebral structures. Unique methods of utilizing the system to selectively cool and warm the central nervous system structures of a patient are set forth herein.

The invention discloses a color ultrasound puncture dual-boot system and belongs to the technical field of medical apparatus and instruments. The color ultrasound puncture dual-boot system comprises a main control unit, wherein input equipment and output equipment are connected with the main control unit, an ultrasound module and a nerve stimulating device module are respectively connected with the main control unit, an ultrasound probe is connected with the ultrasound module, and the nerve stimulating device module is connected with a nerve stimulating needle. The invention aims to provide the color ultrasound puncture dual-boot system which is convenient to use, can locate the position and the shape of nerve plexus by means of a dual method of an image function and a physical function, and is used for puncture and guiding of nerve blocking.

The invention relates to a puncture practice device for nurses. A separate water tank with multiple interfaces, a storage battery, a vibration module and a power supply interface with switches are installed in the chest and abdominal cavity of the human body model frame device. Magnetic induction switches are installed on the corresponding positions of the sacral plexus, lumbar plexus, sciatic nerve, femoral nerve, etc., and two booster pumps are installed in the separated water tank and hold liquids of different colors, which are respectively connected to the corresponding silicone arterial tube and silicone venous tube. When you need to practice injection puncture, turn on the switch, the booster pump works, and the water in the separated water tank flows into the silicone arterial tube and the silicone venous tube connected to it. The color of the blood returns to distinguish the arteries and veins. When the corresponding nerve or nerve plexus is pierced, the vibration module starts to vibrate. To achieve the purpose of improving the operation skills by practicing puncture by the simulated person.

The invention discloses an improved needle special for sacral canal puncture. The needle comprises a needle body, the needle body is connected with a needle handle, an extended flexible pipe is connected to the side face of the needle handle, and an injector joint is formed at the other end of the extended flexible pipe. The improved remaining needle special for sacral canal puncture (the embodiment 1) and needles special for sacral canal puncture which can be used under ultrasonic guiding (the embodiment 2 and the embodiment 3) are included; the improved remaining needle special for sacral canal puncture (the embodiment 1) is suitable for cases which need a long time for sacral canal block anesthesia and sacral canal block treatment and implement continuous nerve block, such as a complex hypospadias operation, perineum reshaping, analgesia after a knee prosthesis continuous femoral nerve block operation is conducted and analgesia for herpes zoster afterpain; the needles special for sacral canal puncture (the embodiment 2 and the embodiment 3) are suitable for cases of sacral canal block anesthesia and sacral canal block treatment, wide peripheral nerve trunk and nerve plexus and nerve block and pain treatment under the ultrasonic guidance.

A using method and apparatuses of foramen catheter needle scope of the present invention uses a new approach, new sites and set of apparatuses to block sacral nerves or nerve plexus to reduce pain during operating. The present invention uses an endoscopic video system with foramen catheter needle scope to introduce anesthetic agents via catheter through foramen of sacral bone to block the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers of lower pelvis, which includes the innervation of uterus, vaginal canal and perineum.

An improved method for performing a hysterectomy wherein the cardinal ligaments and the uterosacral ligaments attached to a uterus are not severed. Also, the wall of the vaginal apex is not cut. This is accomplished by coring through the cervical stroma of the uterus close to the wall of the endocervical canal and transformation zone and removing the endocervical canal and transformation zone from the cervical stroma. The opening left in the cervical stroma after removal of the endocervical canal and transformation zone is closed with sutures. This technique is practically bloodless. The nerve plexuses and the support system of the female internal organs are preserved. The chance of future cervical cancer is substantially eliminated. This is truly a technique for the 21st century.

A system and method for cooling and warming the central nervous system of a patient comprises a delivery tube with one of the ends couplable to a supply of fluid. A head structure is coupled to the other end of the delivery tube and cooling or warming fluid is directed through the tube to the head structure. The head structure is configured to be placed within the rectal cavity of a patient such that either a contact surface on the head structure or the fluid itself directly contacts a portion of the rectal mucosal membrane. A means for reversing the vertebral venous flow of blood through Batson's plexus supplies cooled or warmed blood directly to the vertebral structures. Unique methods of utilizing the system to selectively cool and warm the central nervous system structures of a patient are set forth herein.

The invention discloses a pathological recognition method for intestinal neuron dysplasia based on a Swin-Unet algorithm, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining submucosal and intermuscular nerve plexus in an H&E dyeing image of an intestinal tissue hematoxylin-eosin dyeing section, collecting a ganglion cell image in the nerve plexus, and carrying out the preprocessing of the ganglion cell image to serve as a training data set; performing data enhancement on the training data set; constructing an image segmentation model; training the image segmentation model by using the training data set; constructing an image classification model; preprocessing the training data set again; training the image classification model by using the training data set; and segmenting and classifying an image to be detected by using the trained image segmentation model and image classification model to realize the judgment of the development condition of the intestinal ganglion. According to the invention, accurate and stable identification and classification of the ganglion cells in submucosa and intermuscular nerve plexus in the intestinal tissue slice dyeing image can be realized, so that subsequent diagnosis is assisted.

The visualized nerve block location guidance instrument is mainly composed of a host, a monitor, a B-ultrasound probe, a nerve plexus stimulating needle, a nerve detection pen and an electromagnetic space tracking transmitter. The host is composed of an industrial computer module, a B-ultrasound module, an electromagnetic positioning and tracking function module and The nerve stimulation pulse module is composed. The invention combines the direct visibility of the ultrasonic diagnostic instrument with the accuracy and precision of the nerve plexus stimulation pulse, which facilitates the operation of the anesthetist, reduces the complexity of the operator and the operation of the instrument, and also reduces the use of anesthetics. side effects on patients; greatly improved the accuracy and safety of nerve plexus positioning and blocking; at the same time, the functional modules of the nerve plexus stimulator circuit and the space tracking and positioning system are connected to the host machine through the software management and access data communication interface. The connection realizes the purpose of planning in advance, direct vision operation, objective evaluation, safety and security in puncture surgery.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a sample of a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) neuron in myenteric nervous plexus of a domestic pigeon. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing an intestinal tract to be observed; (2) taking the intestinal tract to be observed, and preparing a fixed sample; (3) cutting the fixed sample into pieces, peeling off the muscular layer, then stripping longitudinal muscle on the nerve plexus, putting into phosphate buffer for preserving, and preparing a sample to be stained; (4) washing the sample to be stained with the phosphate buffer, then dipping into confining liquid, and sealing at the room temperature; after that, dipping into a primary antibody solution, and carrying out incubation at the room temperature to prepare a primary antibody sample; (5) dipping the primary antibody sample into a goat anti-rabbit IgG solution, carrying out incubation on a shaking table, and carrying out color development under the condition of keeping out of the sun; then, dehydrating and sealing on a sheet so as to obtain the sample. The method adopts an intestinal wall full-layered sheeting-NOS immunohistochemical technique for the first time to prepare the sample of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) neuron in the myenteric nervous plexus of the pigeon; in a preparation process, the separation between the circular muscle and the longitudinal muscle is more easily realized by injecting a muscle relaxant and stripping the longitudinal muscle before preparation of the sample.