JPS61149164A - Electric analgestic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field to which the Invention Pertains] The present invention relates to an electrical analgesic device that can exert an analgesic effect on various types of pain occurring in the body by electrostatic or electromagnetic action.

[Prior art and its problems]

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, in addition to the use of various anti-inflammatory analgesics and anesthetics, acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, electric acupuncture therapy using electricity, etc. have been employed to treat various painful diseases that occur in the body. However, the conventional therapy aims to obtain a therapeutic effect by directly stimulating the tissues (meridians) of the human body, and is used to treat local rational diseases such as joint pain and schizophrenia. However, when a quick analgesic effect is desired, it is not always satisfactory.

Today, the mechanism of pain in living organisms has not been fully elucidated, and no objective method for measuring pain has been established. However, it has been confirmed that there are various forms of pain expression, one of which is the presence of pain-inducing substances.

Based on the existence of this pain-inducing substance, when an ionized substance with a certain charge, for example +, is infiltrated into the body, pain can be induced depending on its concentration. ) and are used to measure the degree of sensory paralysis.

Therefore, for example, in local rational diseases such as arthralgia and sheathitis mentioned earlier, it is thought that multiple types of ionized rational substances exist locally and are one of the causes of the pain. .

From this point of view, analgesic effects can be achieved by electrically moving or neutralizing the locally existing ionized substances by applying static electricity or electromagnetic stimulation from the outside to the ionized rational substances in the rational diseased part of the body. We have clarified what can be obtained.

[Purpose of the invention]

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an electrical system that can disperse ionized rational substances that are unevenly distributed in a diseased area and achieve a rapid analgesic effect by applying static electricity or electromagnetic stimulation from the outside to the rational diseased area of a living body. To provide pain relief devices.

[Key points of the invention]

The electroanalgesic device according to the present invention includes: an electrode member that is close to or in contact with a living body to partially cover the living body; a device that generates high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force in the electrode member;
Furthermore, the present invention is characterized in that a short-circuiting means is provided for intermittent high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force generated in the electrode member at predetermined timing, so as to disperse or neutralize the ionized rational substance in the rational diseased part of the living body. .

In the electric pain device described above, it is preferable that a positive or negative electrostatic potential is applied to the electrode member, and the electrostatic potential on the electrode member is changed in a pulse-like manner by a short circuit caused by a short circuit gap. Alternatively, the electric analgesic device may be configured such that the electrode member is an electrode plate around which an electromagnetic coil is wound, and an electromagnetic force in a predetermined direction is generated in a pulsed manner on the electrode plate by short-circuiting a short-circuit switch.

Further, the electrode member may be configured to give a positional displacement to the rational diseased area.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Next, embodiments of the electrical analgesic device according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the electrical analgesic device of the present invention.
Reference numeral 10 is a living body, I2 is an electrode member disposed close to the affected part of the living body 1°, 14 is a high-voltage static electricity generator for applying high-voltage static electricity to the electrode member 12, and 16 is the high-voltage static electricity generator 14 and the electrode member 12. and a short circuit gap provided in the connection circuit with ground 15.

The electroanalgesic device according to this embodiment configured as described above applies positive or negative high-voltage static electricity to the electrode member 12 and short-circuits the short-circuit gap 16 at a predetermined timing, thereby increasing the potential on the surface of the electrode member 12. The state changes in a pulse-like manner, which stimulates the ionized rational substance in the rational diseased part of the living body, and disperses the rational substance to obtain an analgesic effect.

In this embodiment, in order to obtain a sufficient potential distribution for the rational diseased part of the living body, it is preferable to configure the electrode member 12 with an area that sufficiently surrounds the diseased part. In addition, the ionized rational substances may differ depending on the rational disease area.
It is effective to change the polarity of the high-voltage static electricity that is constantly applied to the electrode member 12 depending on the ionized rational substance.

The clinical results of this example are as follows.

1. Rational disease Department name: Arm joint region keyring inflammation Electrode member: Material: Aluminum foil Area: 150crA High voltage static electricity: Applied voltage of electrode member: 500 ■ Current: 0.5 m
Short-circuit gap below A: When the voltage applied to the electrode member was varied and the analgesic effect over time was compared with that before treatment under the conditions of a short-circuit period of 1/3 sec or more, the results shown in Figure 2 were obtained. (In this case, the pain state before treatment was set as 100, and the normal state was set as O). In addition,
For comparison, we also compared the analgesic effect of the short-circuit gap when the short-circuit was continued without periodic short-circuiting.

From the measurement results shown in Figure 2, it was confirmed that the perceived pain caused by local exercise was clearly reduced, and that this treatment was extremely effective compared to conventional treatments. In addition, when the short route was continued, a sufficient pain relief effect was not obtained as shown by the broken line.

2) Rational disease department name: Shoulder periarthritis (frozen shoulder) Except for using aluminum foil with an area of 500 cd as the electrode member,
The conditions for high voltage static electricity and shorting gap were exactly the same as above.

Under the above conditions, the analgesic effect over time was compared with that before treatment in the same manner as described above, and results approximately similar to those shown in FIG. 2 were obtained.

Therefore, in this case as well, it is extremely beneficial for so-called frozen shoulder (frozen shoulder), which has traditionally been given up on as an intractable rational disease, and is effective in alleviating the suffering of patients in a short period of time. was confirmed.

FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the electroanalgesic device of the present invention. That is, in this embodiment, by imparting positive or negative polarity to the electrode plate 22 and placing this potential polarity close to or in contact with the rationally diseased part of the living body 10, the rational The ionized rational substances in the diseased area are stimulated by a magnetic field to disperse the rational substances and obtain an analgesic effect.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the electrode plate 2 with high magnetic permeability
The electromagnetic coil 20 is wound around the electromagnetic coil 2, and the electromagnetic coil is connected to a DC power source 24 via a short-circuit switch 26. In this case, one end of the electrode plate 22 that is close to the rationally diseased part of the living body 10 is arranged to maintain positive or negative polarity, and by short-circuiting the short-circuit switch 26 at a predetermined timing, the electrode plate 22 is A certain amount of polarization is generated in a pulsed manner, and the high electromagnetic force generated by this polarization stimulates the ionized rational substance in the rational diseased part of the living body 10, thereby producing the above-mentioned analgesic effect.

As an alternative, as shown in FIG. 4, the electrode plate 23 is formed into a U-shape, and the rationally diseased part of the living body 10 is inserted between both ends of the U-shaped electrode plate 23, so that the opposing electrode plate 2
It is possible to make the electromagnetic force generated between both ends of 3 more effective in stimulating the ionized rational substance in the rational diseased area.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the embodiments described above, according to the present invention,
Based on the recognition that the cause of pain in the rational diseased part of the living body is the biased presence of ionized rational substances, by applying electrostatic or electromagnetic stimulation from the outside to the rational diseased part without damaging the living body, By promoting the movement or neutralization of ionized rational substances, an analgesic effect can be quickly and reliably obtained. In particular, when using high-voltage static electricity, if the current value is set to a minute current that does not affect the living body, it can be used up to several hundred volts, and as a result, the stimulation effect on the rational diseased area is quick and effective. It is valid.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it goes without saying that various design changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

For example, instead of discontinuing the electrode member that generates high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force in the above-mentioned embodiment in relation to the power source, the electrode member may be changed in position to the rational diseased part, so that the electrode member generates high voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force. It may be configured to exhibit an intermittent effect.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the main part configuration showing one embodiment of the electrical analgesic device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an analgesic chronotropic curve diagram of a clinical case using the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of the main part configuration showing another embodiment of the electric analgesic device according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of the main part configuration showing a modification of the device shown in FIG. 3.

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) An electrode member that is close to or in contact with a living body and partially covers it, a device that generates high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force in this electrode member, and a device that generates high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force in the electrode member. 1. An electrical analgesic device, characterized in that it is provided with short-circuiting means for intermittent high electromagnetic force at predetermined timings, and configured to disperse or neutralize ionized painful substances in a painful diseased part of a living body. (2) In the electroanalgesic device according to claim 1, a positive or negative electrostatic potential is applied to the electrode member, and the electrostatic potential on the electrode member is changed in a pulsed manner due to a short circuit caused by a short circuit gap. Electrical analgesic device. (3) In the electroanalgesic device according to claim 1, the electrode member consists of an electrode plate around which an electromagnetic coil is wound,
An electrical analgesic device that generates pulsed electromagnetic force in a predetermined direction on an electrode plate by shorting a shorting switch. (4) In the electrical pain relief device according to claim 1, the electrode member that generates high-voltage static electricity or high electromagnetic force is configured to give a positional displacement to a painful diseased area. .