AU2008100079A4 - Human Internal Organ Palpation Diagnosis - Google Patents

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Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION INNOVATION PATENT Human Internal Organ Palpation Diagnosis Field of Patent: medical diagnosis The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me: 00 HUMAN INTERNAL ORGAN PALPATION DIAGNOSIS O An objective, reproducible method and technique of medical palpation diagnosis of Smost of the internal organs of the human body.

1) 5 Background C- Many attempts at palpation 'diagnostic maps' comprising 'diagnostic areas' on the Ssurface of the human body have been drawn up in the past especially by ancient Chinese medicos and Japanese practitioners of acupuncture and shiatsu in the last 1500 years and including very recently. Mainstream western medical literature also 0s 0 documents many reflex points for various disease conditions and organ pathologies.

With all these diagnostic maps, there has been varying degrees of guesswork, anecdotal evidence, uncertainty, incompleteness and subsequently some errors 0 still passed on today in major teaching institutions. The Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Selectromagnetic resonance technique [United States Patent: 5,188,107. Omura Y.

00 0 5 February 23, 1993] has been successfully used to identify most of the organ 0 representation points (ORP) (diagnostic areas) on the human body for palpation for C abnormal tenderness*. Many other occurring palpation pressure-evoked pain reflexes that are anatomically remote from the source internal organ and its ORP have not yet been objectively identified and systemized into a coherent and clinically useful 0 palpation diagnostic system. The system and technique described provides this solution.

Pressure pain points indicate or signal (pre-clinical) functional changes.

00 Summary 0 An objective and reproducible medical system of diagnosis of existing pathology of 0 most of the internal organs (meaning also glands) of a living human being in both Ic hyper and hypo pathological conditions by a physical palpation system and specific 5 palpation technique that detects pathological pressure-evoked pain** coming from S mostly one but sometimes many internal organs at very localized points/areas of the M human body being completely or with very minor variation, fixed, pre-determined anatomical locations, and definitively that (29 out of a total of 49 on the anterior surface of the body and 5 out of a total of 8 on the posterior surface of the body s 0 these anatomical locations [Figures 1-15] have been newly identified using the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) electromagnetic resonance technique [United States Patent: 5,188,107. Omura Y. February 23, 1993] to be in the categories of either: (a) anatomically above (ie superficial to) the internal organs and manifesting palpation pressure-evoked pain of these pathological underlying internal organs, or (b) 00 5 points/areas 'referred' from internal organs via connective tissue and/or the muscular system and/or via internal anatomy and physiology or meridianally and in many instances being at locations having no known anatomical or physiological relationships to the related pathological internal organs; and in both categories (a) and the palpation pressure-evoked pain being relayed to the brain of the subject 0 by the nervous system when being palpated using this palpation system and technique such that the pressure-evoked pain is an objectively observable and otherwise objectively sensed event so that an objective and differentiated medical diagnosis can be made of which organ(s) is/are pathological.

As contradistincted from presenting or spontaneous pain.

Indicated by a suffix in the left column of Figures 3-15.

This diagnostic process also addresses the problem that pathologically changed tissue has different (palpable) characteristics depending on a number of factors. This 0 is described in Figure 0.1 which shows: Tissue aesthesia and tonus changes in early stages of disharmony (after Yoshio Manaka MD), where the x axis shows increasing time/pathology.

Figure 1 shows: Anterior Body Palpation Reflex Locations. Figure 2 shows: Posterior Body Diagnostic Reflex Locations. The posterior body palpation diagnosis included in Figure 2 is of diagnostic points/areas for the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and adrenal glands only. Abnormal spinal segment/dermatome sensitization can confuse back diagnosis and due to this factor makes some back diagnostic areas sometimes less reliable than anterior body diagnostic areas.

Terminology and abbreviations 'Meridian': (according to published research) is defined here as an electromagnetic gradient coming out from an internal organ that propagates some kind of biological information in an electromagnetic field running through the human body along which lie biologically active zones. The gradient trajectory is changeable depending on many factors. Meridians have been partially documented and traced by classical Chinese medical literature.

Biologically active zones (BAZs): some of which are also known as 'acu-points' or 'acupuncture points' (even though they are not points).

00 O 'Diagnostic Areas': described are defined as regions where an organ-meridian can most readily and clearly be detected and assessed in relative isolation from the other organ-meridians.

Modern 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' (TCM). WM=Western Medicine. AG=Adrenal gland. L=left side of patient's body. R=right side of patient's body. AL=actual location.

Anatomical division (AnDv): measurement of maximum width at nail of distal phalanx of 1st finger (thumb) of patient.

0 All BAZ locations are given using common standard modern TCM notation, unless otherwise noted. The BAZ anatomical locations can be easily referenced from standard, commonly available TCM literature. This system of localization has been adopted for its ease and simplicity in describing anatomical positions and speed of 00 reference.

Best practices Palpation is with the left or right hand using the pads of the fingertips and thumb. The 0 thumb can be used on its own. When using the fingers, usually the pads of the middle three fingers are used together.

Keeping the non palpation hand in contact with the patient's body in a 'supportive' role while palpating with the other hand allows a more settled palpation technique and more comfortable experience for the patient.

High degree of sensitivity and judgement eg differentiating between natural tenderness in intercostal spaces or the aorta deep in the abdomen, and pathological hypersensitivity; and between general area tightness and a 'live', ie pathological reflex.

Precision: 1cm and/or exact palpation angle often makes a difference in locating 0 pressure pain or missing it.

Rechecking of any reflex must be done with the same pressure and angle for reproducibility.

Adjusting (relative) point location on an obese or flaccid body.

Pre-knowledge of TCM meridian pathway and point locations is useful or can be referenced ad hoc quickly.

Palpation depth and other guidelines Palpate on the skin whenever possible. Clothes move and make diagnosis much more difficult, or impossible, cumbersome and inaccurate.

Palpation should be carried out while examiner is electrically non-grounded or detectable pressure pain may change.

Grades of depth where diagnostic findings can be found in the abdomen: 1: touching the skin 2: pressing into the muscles 3: pressing harder to just touch the organs 4: pressing into the organs, or to touch the deeper organs pressing as though trying to touch the spine.