35 results about "Shock wave therapy" patented technology

The method of stimulating a substance is disclosed. The method has the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves; and subjecting the substance to the acoustic shock waves stimulating said substance wherein the substance is positioned within a path of the emitted shock waves and away from a geometric focal volume or point of the emitted shock waves. In one embodiment the emitted shock waves are divergent or near planar. In another embodiment the emitted shock waves are convergent having a geometric focal volume of point at a distance of at least X from the source, the method further comprising positioning the substance at a distance less than the distance X from the source. The substance is a tissue having cells. The tissue can be an organ of a mammal. The mammal may be a human or an animal. The organ may be a heart, a brain, skin, a liver or a kidney or any other organ. The tissue may be muscle, cartilage, tendon, bone, teeth or gums. The tissue may be a part of the vascular system, a part of the nervous system, a part of the urinary or reproductive system, a part of the lymph node or pituitary systems, a part of the ocular system or a part of a skeletal system.

In a method of treating a patient having diffuse plaque and / or a plaque mass associated with Peyronie's disease in a penile region, a battery of tests is performed to quantify an initial state of parameters associated with Peyronie's disease in the patient. Low intensity shock wave therapy is applied to the plaque mass in the penile region, thereby softening the plaque mass and disrupting any calcification in the plaque mass. Carbon dioxide is injected into the plaque mass. The battery of tests is repeated to quantify a current state of parameters associated with Peyronie's disease in the patient and the current state is compared to the initial state. The aforementioned treatment steps are repeated until the current state differs from the initial state by at least a predetermined amount.

The invention discloses an in-vitro heart shock wave therapeutic apparatus, relates to the technical field of therapeutic equipment for generating focused shock waves to treat heart disease and aims at solving the technical problem that existing in-vitro heart shock wave therapeutic equipment is incapable of finding and locating a therapeutic position, inconvenient to use and non-ideal in therapeutic effect. The in-vitro shock wave therapeutic apparatus comprises a shock impact device body for generating focused pulse sound wave energy, a B ultrasonic probe is arranged at the central axis of the shock impact device body, and a probe driving mechanism for driving the B ultrasonic probe to ascend, descend and rotate is arranged on the shock wave device body. The B ultrasonic probe is disposed in a therapeutic head and can automatically ascend, descend and rotate, the therapeutic position can be located before treatment, and accuracy of the therapeutic position can be monitored to judge whether the therapeutic position is deviated or not. The B ultrasonic probe can be controlled to descend to contact with a patient, and a B ultrasonic image processing system can realize B ultrasonic imaging positioning according to signals of the B ultrasonic probe. The B ultrasonic probe can be controlled to go back into a passage after monitoring is completed to retreat from the therapeutic passage, so that the in-vitro shock wave therapeutic apparatus is convenient to use, and therapeutic effect is improved effectively.