Deep Connective Tissue Perforation to Reduce Tension
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Solution Overview
Problem
Connective tissue, such as scleral tissue, loses flexibility with age, leading to increased tension, loss of elasticity, and affecting surrounding tissues and organs, including the eye's ability to focus and maintain intraocular pressure.
Innovation Solution
Forming perforations in connective tissue to at least 90% of its depth using a surgical laser system, creating specific patterns of perforations around the posterior surgical limbus to increase elasticity and reduce tension, and inhibiting normal healing processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If connective tissue is treated traditionally without intervention, then the tissue maintains its structural integrity, but the tissue loses flexibility and elasticity with age, leading to increased tension and affecting surrounding organs
Solution Approach 1:
The connective tissue is segmented by creating multiple perforations that extend to at least 90% of the tissue depth. These perforations divide the continuous tissue structure into separated sections, allowing independent movement and deformation of tissue segments, thereby maintaining flexibility while preserving overall structural integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The treated connective tissue is transformed into a porous structure with controlled perforations extending deep into the tissue. This porous configuration allows the tissue to maintain its structural framework while creating spaces that enable deformation, stretching, and flexibility, directly addressing the age-related loss of tissue adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If perforations are formed in connective tissue to increase flexibility, then tissue elasticity improves, but the tissue structure is disrupted and normal healing processes are affected
Solution Approach 1:
The treatment applies local quality changes by creating perforations with specific characteristics (depth of at least 90%, controlled spacing, and targeted locations) in specific regions of the connective tissue. This localized approach allows the tissue to maintain structural stability in untreated areas while achieving enhanced elasticity in the perforated regions, balancing both requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes critical parameters of the connective tissue by controlling perforation depth (at least 90% of tissue depth), spacing, and distribution patterns. These parameter changes transform the tissue from a rigid, age-degraded state to a more flexible state while maintaining overall structural integrity through controlled modification rather than complete disruption.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the surface of scleral tissue is ablated to form incisions or spots, then some flexibility is improved, but the treatment only affects the surface and does not sufficiently address deep tissue tension
Solution Approach 1:
The treatment performs preliminary action by creating perforations that extend to at least 90% of the connective tissue depth before any healing or remodeling occurs. This deep preliminary structuring ensures that both surface and deep tissue layers are simultaneously addressed, preventing the limitation of superficial treatments and establishing flexibility throughout the entire tissue thickness.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The perforations enhance tissue flexibility and reduce tension, improving the eye's focusing ability and reducing intraocular pressure by altering immunology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of connective tissue metabolism.
Implementation Method 1
forming perforations in connective tissue to at least 90% of its depth using a surgical laser system
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AI summary
A method and system of treating connective tissue to increase flexibility of the connective tissue or decrease tension in the connective tissue includes forming perforations in the connective tissue to at least 90% of the depth or thickness of the connective tissue and maintaining the perforations in the connective tissue. The method alters the tissue to enhance the fundamental mechanisms involved the immunology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of the metabolism of the connective tissue.