KR100792513B1 - Extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device - Google Patents

Abstract

An extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device is provided to reduce the operation time of an extracorporeal radial shock wave medical treatment, a light irradiation medical treatment, and a low frequency medical treatment. An extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device(100) includes a housing(10), a shock wave carrier(20), a shock wave generator(30), a permanent magnet(40), a light irradiating unit(80), and a conductive member(90). The housing consists of a cap(11) and a body(12). The housing has a hollow. The shock wave carrier is inserted into the cap of the housing. The shock wave generator is interpolated into the housing. The shock wave generator is launched frontward by introduction of compressed air through a compressed air supply pipe(50) to collide into the shock wave carrier. The permanent magnet is coupled with the housing. The permanent magnet pulls the shock wave generator colliding with the shock wave carrier by a magnetic force to locate the shock wave generator at a target position. The light irradiating unit is mounted with plural light sources(81).

Description

Extracorporeal Radial Shock Wave Medical Device

1 and 2 are an exploded perspective view and a cross-sectional view of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4 are an exploded perspective view and a cross-sectional view of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an operating state diagram of the light irradiation unit according to the present invention.

Figure 6 is a state of use of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10 housing 11 cap

12: body 13: with guide

14: connection terminal 20: shock wave carrier

30: shock wave generator 40: permanent magnet

50: compressed air supply pipe 60: inner pipe pipe

61 bushing 70 spring member

80: light irradiation unit 81: light source

90: energizing member 91: pad

100: extracorporeal shock wave therapy device

The present invention relates to an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device capable of simultaneously performing extracorporeal shock wave treatment, light irradiation treatment, and low frequency treatment, and more specifically, to a pad attached to an affected part by combining a light irradiation portion that emits light by a light source to a housing outer edge. The present invention relates to a multifunctional extracorporeal shock wave therapy device capable of performing light irradiation therapy and low frequency therapy simultaneously with physical extracorporeal shock wave therapy by coupling a conducting member electrically contacted to generate a low frequency wave in front of the shock wave carrier.

Baseball, football, golf, swimming, and marathon runners, who have been forced to excessively exercise excessively for a long time, often inflamed or damaged joints, tendons, and ligaments, as well as suddenly excessive exercise or excessive work. In addition to the general people who feel muscle pain, physiotherapeutic therapy, medication, herbal treatment, such as various types of sudden and chronic pain that is not easily improved by conservative therapy is an easy way to cure without extra shock.

This shock wave therapy regimen delivers shock waves into the body by bringing the shock wave therapy device into contact with the painful procedure, promoting remodeling of blood vessels, descaling tendons, and stimulating or reactivating the tendon and surrounding tissues, The result is an effective treatment that can reduce pain and improve function.

The shock wave therapy device used in such a shock wave therapy device is a compressed air supply pipe for discharging compressed air into a cylinder, a shock wave generator fired to the front by discharge of compressed air in the cylinder, and impact energy generated by the collision with the shock wave generator. It consists of a shock wave carrier that delivers to the affected part of the human body.

The present applicant has disclosed such a shock wave treatment device through Patent Application No. 2006-0083127, Patent Application No. 2006-0083125, and Utility Model Registration Application No. 2006-0023362, 2006-0022256.

The extracorporeal shock wave treatment device is composed of a cap and a body, and is fired forward by the introduction of compressed air through a housing having a hollow, a shock wave carrier embedded in the cap of the housing, and inserted into the housing and compressed air supply pipe. It comprises a shock wave generator for generating a shock wave as it collides with, and further comprises a permanent magnet, a spring or a means for introducing compressed air to facilitate the return to the initial position of the shock wave generator or the structure of the housing It can be configured as a single cylinder structure or a double cylinder structure in which the inner pipe tube is further interposed inside.

In general, hospitals and clinics, in addition to the physical shock wave treatment using an extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, are separately performing 'low frequency treatment' and 'light irradiation treatment' for the purpose of pain relief and various treatments. The time loss was very large.

The treatment regimen by the light irradiation device can be widely used for healing, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and stimulating effects of damaged tissues using low power, as well as kinds of light sources, that is, laser diode, high brightness LED, Depending on the application and installation of simple small bulbs, infrared lamps, etc., a wide range of treatments are possible, ranging from pain treatment to obesity treatment.

In addition, low frequency therapy is already widely used to treat or alleviate pain and to treat obesity patients by stimulating muscles and nerves in the local area of the human body using low frequency current.

Therefore, in the case of such extracorporeal shock wave treatment, light irradiation and low frequency treatment are sequentially performed by separate devices, a lot of treatment time and manpower loss as well as unnecessary costs are being generated, so that all the above treatment regimens can be performed simultaneously. Improvement of the device was required.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and coupled to the housing outer periphery to the detachable light irradiation unit for emitting light by a light source, the conductive member for generating a low frequency by electrical contact with the pad attached to the affected part or An object of the present invention is to provide an extracorporeal shock wave therapy device capable of performing light irradiation therapy and low frequency therapy simultaneously with physical extracorporeal shock wave therapy by coupling the cap to the front of the shock wave carrier.

The present invention has the following features to achieve the above object.

The present invention is composed of a cap and a body and has a hollow, a shock wave carrier that is embedded in the cap of the housing, and is inserted into the housing and is fired forward by the introduction of compressed air through the compressed air supply pipe to impact the shock wave carrier In the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device comprising a shock wave generator for generating a shock wave, and a permanent magnet coupled to the housing and the magnetism to pull the shock wave generator collided with the shock wave carrier by magnetic force to position it in the desired position, the cap body Alternatively, a low frequency is generated in the affected area by being electrically connected to one of the poles electrically selected from the positive electrode or the negative electrode through the inside of the body, and electrically contacted with a pad attached to the affected area and electrically connected to the opposite pole.

Here, the shock wave carrier is energized together with the cap by a coating material including a water-soluble gel that is applied to the affected part during use as the cap is energized.

In addition, the front portion of the shock wave carrier is further provided with a current-carrying member that is energized with the cap by a coating material including a water-soluble gel applied to the affected part as the cap is energized.

In addition, the present invention is composed of a cap and the body and has a hollow housing, a shock wave carrier body embedded in the cap of the housing, and inserted into the housing and is launched forward by the introduction of compressed air through the compressed air supply pipe to the shock wave carrier body An external shock wave treatment device including a shock wave generator for generating a shock wave as a collision, and a permanent magnet coupled to the housing and a permanent magnet to pull the shock wave generator collided with the shock wave carrier by magnetic force to the desired position, the outside of the housing The outer edge is provided with a light irradiation unit equipped with a plurality of light sources to irradiate a laser or various types of light forward depending on the purpose of the procedure.

Here, the outer side of the housing in which the light irradiation unit is mounted is formed with a guide path for guiding the light irradiation unit to be detached and moved forward and backward, and one connection terminal for supplying power to the light irradiation unit at one end portion of the guide path. The light irradiation part is selectively connected as it is conveyed along the guide path.

In addition, the light source is any one or complex selected according to the purpose of the procedure, such as laser diode, high brightness LED, eye bulb or small bulb.

The housing further includes a hollow inner pipe tube connected to the rear side to communicate with the compressed air supply pipe for introducing compressed air and in close contact with the shock wave carrier to accommodate the shock wave generator.

In addition, a spring member may be further installed at the inner front edge of the housing front portion or the inner edge of the inner pipe tube to facilitate the return of the shock wave generator that is projected forward and collides with the shock wave carrier.

Hereinafter, the extracorporeal shock wave therapy device according to the present invention will be described in detail with the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 are exploded perspective and sectional view of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figures 3 and 4 are exploded perspective and sectional view of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 5 6 is an operational state diagram of the light irradiation unit according to the present invention, Figure 6 is a state diagram of the use of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, the extracorporeal shock wave therapy apparatus 100 according to the present invention is composed of a cap 11 and a body 12 and is embedded in a housing 10 having a hollow and a cap 11 of the housing 10. The shock wave carrier 20 and the shock wave generator interpolated into the housing 10 and fired forward by the introduction of compressed air through the compressed air supply pipe 50 to generate a shock wave as it collides with the shock wave carrier 20 ( 30) and the permanent magnet 40 coupled to the housing 10 to force the shock wave generator 30 collided with the shock wave carrier 20 by magnetic force to be positioned at a desired position, and the outer edge of the housing 10. The light irradiation unit 80 is equipped with a plurality of light sources 81 to irradiate the light forward, and the current is coupled to the front of the shock wave carrier 20 and electrically energized by any one of the positive electrode or the negative electrode It consists of the member 90.

Wherein the housing 10 is composed of a cap 11 and the body 12 and accommodates the shock wave generator 30 inside the body 12, the shock wave carrier inside the coupling point of the cap 11 and the body 12 20 is interpolated.

At this time, the housing 10 receives the shock wave generator 30 and the shock wave carrier 20 in the internal combustion, and the compressed air supply pipe 50 is coupled to the rear portion to fire the shock wave generator 30 in accordance with the introduction of the compressed air Is a single housing structure.

Alternatively, it can be configured by adopting a dual housing structure in another embodiment of the present invention, which interpolates the inner pipe tube 60 to the inner flame of the housing 10 and the shock wave generator 30 to the inner pipe tube 60. It is a structure to accommodate inside.

In this case, the bushing 61 is further coupled to the outer periphery of the predetermined point of the inner pipe tube 60 so that the inner pipe tube 60 can be fixed and fixed so as to stop between the inner pipe tube 60 and the housing 10. It will be desirable.

In addition, the shock wave generator 30 collides with the shock wave carrier 20 to smoothly return to the initial position. The member 70 can be further installed.

Accordingly, it is possible to overcome the limitation of the return range to the initial position due to the permanent magnet 40, that is, the limitation of the magnetic field, thereby enabling the manufacture of an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device having a longer stroke (moving distance), which is a more powerful shock wave. Induces occurrence.

On the other hand, one of the biggest features of the present invention, the light irradiation unit 80 is coupled to the cylindrical shape having a hollow on the outer edge of the housing, it is configured to be equipped with a plurality of light sources 81 to irradiate light for therapeutic purposes in the front .

In order to control the operation of the light irradiation unit 80 of the present invention, the guide path 13 is formed to form a groove in the longitudinal direction so that the light irradiation unit can be moved forward and backward on the housing 10.

It is preferable that a protruding path is formed at the inner edge of the light irradiation part 80 so as to correspond in shape to the guide path 13 and configured to slide according to the guide of the guide path 13.

In addition, at one end portion of one side of the guide path 13, a connection terminal 14 electrically connected to the light irradiation part 80 to be applied with power is formed.

In this case, the connection terminal 14 is connected to a wire separately installed in the body or the housing inner edge to supply power to the light irradiation unit (80).

In addition, the connection terminal 14 is preferably composed of two so as to have a (+) pole and a (-) pole, respectively, in order to have two connection terminals 14 as described above, at least one guide path 13 Of course it should be formed as.

Therefore, a contact terminal (not shown in the drawing) that is electrically connected to the connection terminal 14 may also be formed in the internal combustion protruding path of the light irradiation unit 80 so that the light irradiation unit 80 may be moved forward and backward. 80 is of course configured to be powered on or off.

In response to the power supply to the light irradiation unit 80, the light source 81 electrically connected to the contact terminal can irradiate light, thereby enabling light irradiation treatment.

In addition, the light irradiation unit 80 is configured to be moved along the guide path 13 of the housing body 12, so that the light irradiation unit 80 is also removable when detaching the cap (11).

Therefore, as the light irradiation unit 80 is detachably attached, the light irradiation unit 80 having the desired light source 81 among various light sources 81 may be adopted to be mounted thereon.

The light source 81 provided in the light irradiator 80 may be a laser diode, a high brightness LED, an eye bulb or a small bulb, and the laser diode is generally used for physical therapy for anti-inflammatory and pain relief. In the case of high brightness LED (LED), it may be adopted for the treatment of obesity through lipolysis effect, and the IR (infrared ray) bulb or the small bulb may be adopted for the treatment purpose through the thermal effect. .

Meanwhile, in the present invention, any one of the positive electrode or the negative electrode is electrically supplied to the cap 11 to enable low frequency treatment in addition to the light irradiation unit 80. By supplying electricity to the cap 11 can be configured to be energized, it is also possible to supply electricity directly to the cap (11).

Accordingly, the low frequency is generated in the affected part by the pad 91 which is attached to one side spaced apart from a predetermined interval of the affected part and supplied with a pole opposite to one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode flowing in the cap 11.

During the treatment of the present invention as described above, the treatment is performed after applying a coating material such as a water-soluble gel to the affected part, whereby the shock wave carrier 20 in contact with the affected part is formed of an electrically conductive material, and the shock wave carrier 20 is energized. If manufactured and used in the form including the member 90, the electricity flowing to the cap 11 through the coating material may be naturally conducted to the shock wave carrier 20 or the conductive member 90.

Accordingly, electricity is stably supplied to the affected part in a wider range, thereby generating low frequency.

In addition, the shock wave carrier 20 may be formed of a high strength synthetic resin material. In this case, it is preferable that the conductive member 90 made of a metal material through which electricity flows to the front of the shock wave carrier 20 is coupled.

In this configuration, the combination of the shock wave carrier 20 and the conductive member 90 should be fixed as tightly as possible. The shock wave carrier 20 is preferably a high strength synthetic resin or metal material resistant to impact, and the conductive member 90 ) Is preferably formed of a metallic material.

Meanwhile, the power supply of the light irradiation unit 80 and the cap 11 according to the present invention can be selectively configured, and accordingly, the light irradiation treatment and the low frequency treatment can be simultaneously performed or optionally any one treatment can be performed. Will be.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. .

Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

As described above, the present invention provides a physical in vitro by coupling a light-emitting part for emitting light by a light source to the outer periphery of the housing and electrically connecting a current-carrying member that is in contact with a pad attached to the affected part to generate a low frequency in front of the shock wave carrier. At the same time as the shock wave treatment, light irradiation treatment and low frequency treatment can be performed.

Accordingly, the procedure time of the extracorporeal shock wave treatment, the light irradiation treatment and the low frequency treatment can be reduced, and at the same time, the treatment effect of the affected part can be dramatically increased by applying various stimuli.

Claims (9)

Shock wave as it impinges on the shock wave carrier when it is fired forward by the introduction of the compressed air through the housing and the housing having a hollow, a housing having a hollow, the shock wave carrier embedded in the cap of the housing, and inserted into the housing and compressed air supply pipe In the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device comprising a shock wave generator for generating a; and a permanent magnet coupled to the housing to impinge the shock wave generator collided with the shock wave carrier by magnetic force to position it in the desired position, The cap is electrically energized to one of the poles selected from the positive electrode or the negative electrode, and the extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, characterized in that the low frequency is generated in the affected area by the electrical contact with the pad attached to the affected area to the opposite pole . Shock wave as it impinges on the shock wave carrier when it is fired forward by the introduction of the compressed air through the housing and the housing having a hollow, a housing having a hollow, the shock wave carrier embedded in the cap of the housing, and inserted into the housing and compressed air supply pipe In the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device comprising a shock wave generator for generating a; and a permanent magnet coupled to the housing to impinge the shock wave generator collided with the shock wave carrier by magnetic force to position it in the desired position, The external shock wave treatment device, characterized in that the light irradiation unit equipped with a plurality of light sources are installed on the outer edge of the housing to irradiate light forward. The method of claim 1, The shock wave carrier is an extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, characterized in that the electric shock is delivered with the cap by a coating material comprising a water-soluble gel applied to the affected area when the cap is energized. The method of claim 1, The front shock absorber of the shock wave carrier, characterized in that the conduction member which is energized together with the cap by the coating material comprising a water-soluble gel is applied to the affected part when the cap is energized as the cap is energized. The method of claim 2, On the outside of the housing in which the light irradiation unit is mounted is formed a guide path for guiding the light irradiation unit to move forward and backward, An external shock wave treatment device, characterized in that the connection terminal for supplying power to the light irradiation portion is formed at one end portion of the guide path selectively connected as the light irradiation unit is moved along the guide path. The method of claim 2, The light source is an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device, characterized in that any one or a combination thereof selected from a laser diode, high brightness LED, eye bulb or small bulb. The method according to claim 1 or 2, In the housing, an external shock wave treatment device, characterized in that it is further connected to the compressed air supply pipe for introducing compressed air and the hollow inner pipe tube in close contact with the shock wave carrier to accommodate the shock wave generator. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The shock absorber of the external body, characterized in that the spring member is further installed to facilitate the return of the shock wave generator that is launched forward and collides with the shock wave carrier. The method of claim 7, wherein The inner pipe tube front portion of the inner edge of the external shock wave treatment device, characterized in that the spring member is further installed to facilitate the return of the shock wave generator is launched forward and collides with the shock wave carrier.

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