Multiplexed Acupuncture Instrument for Simultaneous Patient Treatment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current acupuncture diagnosis and treatment methods rely heavily on experience and lack scientific evidence, leading to inefficiencies and inaccuracies in locating acupoints, which can result in low treatment efficiency and safety concerns for both professionals and laypeople.
Innovation Solution
A clinical and medical evidence-based acupunctural meridian-acupoint treating and detecting instrument that supports multiplexed output, incorporating a CPU core unit, communication module, human-machine interaction, and detecting-diagnosing-treating circuits, including resistance detecting and acupuncture units, to provide accurate diagnosis and treatment for multiple patients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional experience-based acupuncture diagnosis and treatment methods are used, then professional medical personnel can provide treatment based on their expertise, but the treatment process is time-consuming and cannot serve multiple patients simultaneously, reducing productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument divides the acupuncture treatment process into independent parallel channels, each capable of detecting and treating one patient simultaneously. The device includes multiple sets of detecting electrodes and treating electrodes that can operate independently, allowing one instrument to serve multiple patients at the same time, thus resolving the contradiction between treatment precision and productivity.
2Ease of operation
If user-operated acupoint detecting and treating products are used, then laypeople can perform self-diagnosis and treatment, but the accuracy of acupoint location is insufficient and safety concerns arise
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms through visual displays and audible signals that guide users through the detection and treatment process. The system automatically processes detection results and provides step-by-step instructions, ensuring accurate acupoint identification and safe treatment application even for laypeople performing self-service, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and measurement precision.
3Device complexity
If a single-channel acupuncture instrument is used, then the device structure remains simple, but it can only treat one patient at a time, limiting its versatility and productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument is designed with multiple independent detection and treatment channels that share common control and processing units. This multi-functional design allows a single instrument to serve multiple patients simultaneously while maintaining relatively simple individual channel structures, resolving the contradiction between device complexity and adaptability.
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 instrument enhances diagnosis and treatment efficiency by providing evidence-based acupoint resistance parameters and multiplexed output of electronic pulse waves, enabling simultaneous diagnosis and treatment of multiple patients, and offering a platform for evidence-based clinical decision-making.
Implementation Method 1
a resistance detecting circuit and an A/D converting digital circuit; the resistance detecting circuit is used for detecting a resistance characteristic of the meridian acupoint
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AI summary
A multipath-output-supporting evidence-based acupuncture and moxibustion acupoint therapeutic and detecting instrument and a using method thereof. The therapeutic and detecting instrument comprises a CPU core unit, a communication module, an audio module and a plurality of detecting, diagnosis and treatment circuits. The detecting, diagnosis and treatment circuit comprises an acupoint detecting unit and an acupoint acupuncture and moxibustion unit. The acupoint detecting unit comprises a resistance detecting circuit and an A/D digital converting circuit. The acupoint acupuncture and moxibustion unit comprises a D/A pulse current generating circuit and an amplifying circuit. The CPU core unit comprises an ARM processor, a memory, an auxiliary circuit and an evidence-based acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic system, and the ARM processor is connected with the evidence-based acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic system.