KR20210075492A - Light source treatment device for pain treatment of jaw joint - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, comprising: a light source unit disposed on the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located and selectively irradiating light heat to the temporomandibular joint; and a fixing means provided in the light source unit and fixing the light source unit to the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located. Heat treatment is performed by therapeutic light of the corresponding wavelength using LED, far-infrared rays, and heat sources. By conducting the resulting light heat to the deep part of the temporomandibular joint, it is possible to effectively relieve and treat temporomandibular joint pain. It takes a shorter treatment time than before because of the light heat reaching the deep part of the temporomandibular joint. The present invention can minimize side effects such as skin rash caused by prolonged exposure to light and heat.

Description

Light source treatment device for pain treatment of jaw joint

The present invention relates to a light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, and more particularly, by using a highly transparent LED light to intensively irradiate heat to the temporomandibular joint along with therapeutic light to the deep part of the temporomandibular joint, effectively treating the temporomandibular joint It relates to a light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain that allows heat treatment to be combined with phototherapy.

In general, the temporomandibular joint is a joint located between the mandible and the skull, and there is a joint disc between the mandible and the skull. plays a role

Temporomandibular joint disorders occur when the joint disc deviates from its normal position or is worn, and these temporomandibular joint disorders are mostly accompanied by muscle abnormalities around the temporomandibular joint due to temporomandibular joint pain or movement disorders.

Also, temporomandibular disorder, one of temporomandibular joint disorders, refers to abnormalities in the muscles used to move the temporomandibular joint or chew food. Pain appears in the cheeks, sides of the head, neck, and shoulders.

In addition, when the mouth is opened, it is biased to one side or the path of the opening is not constant, which is a similar symptom.

On the other hand, the causes of the temporomandibular joint disorder include bad lifestyle habits such as bruising, clenching teeth, poor sleeping posture, and groaning of the jaw, or psychological anxiety, tension, and depression caused by trauma or stress.

Methods for treating such temporomandibular joint disorder include drug therapy using painkillers and muscle relaxants, physical therapy using poultice, percutaneous nerve stimulation, infrared rays, high-frequency electrodes, and low-power lasers, and surgical treatment.

In particular, high-frequency electrodes and low-power lasers, which are often used in physical therapy, are effective in relieving pain and treating them, but the procedure takes about 30 minutes to an hour. In the case of treatment using high-frequency electrodes, the therapist continues to treat the patient's affected area. There is the inconvenience of having to rub with .

In addition, conventional treatment techniques using light, such as infrared rays and low-power lasers, have a problem in that the effect does not reach the deep part of the temporomandibular joint located under the skin, so that the effect cannot be properly exhibited.

As a prior art, reference may be made to Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2011-0040853 (April 20, 2011).

The present invention can effectively relieve temporomandibular joint pain by conducting a treatment light of the corresponding wavelength using an LED and heat treatment in parallel, and by conducting the resulting light heat to the deep temporomandibular joint, and to the deep temporomandibular joint. An object of the present invention is to provide a light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, which takes a shorter treatment time than conventional light heat to reach, and can minimize side effects such as skin rash caused by prolonged light heat exposure.

The light source treatment device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain according to the present invention is disposed on the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located, and is provided with a light source unit for selectively irradiating light heat to the temporomandibular joint, and the light source unit, wherein the light source unit is located at the temporomandibular joint and fixing means for fixing to the front side of the ear.

At this time, the light source unit according to the present invention irradiates far-infrared rays together with the treatment light of the corresponding wavelength.

And it is preferable that the light source unit according to the present invention includes a first LED element irradiating a treatment light of a wavelength of 550 to 850 nm and a second LED element irradiating a far infrared ray having a wavelength of 900 nm or more.

In addition, it is provided on the periphery of the light source according to the present invention, it includes an adhesion means for maintaining the state in proximity to the light source unit to the skin.

In addition, it is provided in the periphery of the inner housing according to the present invention, it includes a heat source member for providing heat of the corresponding temperature to the skin close to the light source unit.

The effects of the light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain according to the present invention are as follows.

It has the effect of effectively relieving temporomandibular joint pain by conducting treatment light of the corresponding wavelength using LED and heat treatment by far-infrared rays and heat source in parallel, and by conducting the resulting light heat to the deep part of the temporomandibular joint. .

With light heat reaching the deep part of the temporomandibular joint, it takes a shorter treatment time than before, and has the effect of minimizing side effects such as skin rash caused by prolonged exposure to light heat.

1 is an exemplary view showing a light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is an exemplary view showing a state in which the fixing means is configured as a band according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an exemplary view showing a state in which the fixing means according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured as an earring frame.
4 is an exemplary view showing a state in which the fixing means is configured as a head frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is an exemplary view showing a state in which the fixing means is configured as a band according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is an exemplary view showing a state in which a heat source member is provided in a light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, the terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to their ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventor should properly understand the concept of the term in order to best describe his invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present invention, so at the time of the present application, they are equivalent It should be understood that there may be variations.

BACKGROUND Light therapy is a medical technology that has been used for a long time to treat various diseases. The use of sunlight to treat skin diseases has been used for thousands of years in Egypt, India and China. Therapy using sunlight was re-examined by Niels Ryberg Finsen, a Nobel laureate in medicine in 1903, and later gave birth to phototherapy using artificial light.

Recently, among light sources for skin disease treatment, a method using an LED light source is emerging. Unlike a high-power laser that intensively treats a local area, the LED light source can effectively treat a large area of a disease with an appropriate light output.

The LED light source has a narrow wavelength bandwidth and emits a light source of a specific wavelength, so harmful ultraviolet (UV) or unnecessary infrared (IR) is not emitted. Therefore, the US FDA has approved the use of treatments using LED light sources in the visible and near-infrared regions for human use.

The following is a medical example using an LED light source.

Initially, the treatment of skin diseases using LED light sources was aimed at healing wounds. LED light sources having various wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared regions are present in various cell lines such as murine fibroblasts, rat osteoblasts, rat skeletal muscle cells, and human epithelium. increased cell growth. Research results on the reduction of the size of the wound and the increase of the wound closure speed were published, and in particular, positive research results on the rapid wound healing and closure of human skin cells were published.

In particular, it was reported that side effects of swelling, oozing, crusting, pain, and erythema were significantly reduced when the LED light source was irradiated after surgical operation. For the healing of skin with necrotic wounds, it was reported that an increase in the production of metalloproteinases in the near-infrared region helped wound healing.

And free radicals are known to cause asymptomatic inflammation. Inflammation is caused through a variety of pathways, caused by acidification of enzymes produced by the body's immune response to sunlight or chemicals.

Treatment using the LED light source is possible through the method of removing the lesion caused by the reverse reaction of the inflammatory trigger. It has been reported that when light of a wavelength of 635 nm is irradiated to fibroblasts of human gums, it can inhibit PGE2 synthesis and reduce inflammation.

Irradiation of the LED light source helped to clearly distinguish erythema and minimized discomfort in the healing of wounded patients with pulsed die laser treatment. The LED light source suppressed MMP, and inhibition of MMP reduced lupus in inflamed tissue. reported that it can.

In addition, in skin damaged by sunlight, collagen synthesis decreases with an increase in MMP.

Therefore, a strategy for preventing or treating the medical signs of skin aging is possible as a method of resolving the collagen deficiency through the reduction of MMP and the synthesis of new collagen. It has been reported that the use of various LED light sources emitting light corresponding to wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared regions can enhance skin collagen synthesis and inhibit the increase in MMP at the same time. A significant increase in collagen synthesis after irradiation with an LED light source has been reported through various experiments.

The present invention uses LED light, which has a higher transmittance than a light bulb, to intensively irradiate far-infrared rays and heat from a heat source member to the deep part of the temporomandibular joint to the temporomandibular joint. It relates to a light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, which can be viewed in more detail with reference to the drawings as follows.

1 to 4, the light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a light source unit 100 and a fixing means 200, wherein the light source unit 100 is the front of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located. It is placed on the side, and selectively irradiates light heat to the temporomandibular joint.

At this time, looking at the light source unit 100 in more detail, the light source unit 100 is coupled to the opening of the outer housing 101 in the form of a dome, one side of which is opened, and the opening of the outer housing 101 in the form of a disk, close to the skin. It includes the inner housing 102, and as the inner housing 102 is coupled to the opening of the outer housing 101, the inner space of the outer housing 101 is closed.

Here, the control unit 110 including a power supply is accommodated in the inner space of the outer housing 101, and a switch unit in which a switch electrically connected to the control unit 110 is assembled on the outer surface of the outer housing 101 (shown) Not shown) and a display unit (not shown) is preferably provided.

The display unit may display the driving of the treatment device, the intensity of light, the driving time, and the like, and may set the driving of the treatment device, the light intensity, the driving time, etc. by manipulating the switches in the switch unit.

The control unit 110 is provided on the inner surface of the inner housing 102 facing the inner space of the outer housing 101, when the inner housing 102 is coupled to the outer housing 101, the outer It is accommodated in the inner space of the housing 101 .

In addition, a contact means 103 for bringing the outer housing 101 closer to the skin may be provided around the opening of the outer housing 101 of the light source unit 100 so that the light source unit 100 approaches the skin.

The adhesion means 103 is a conventional suction plate that makes it adhere to the skin with a sticky physical property like a silicone pad, or generates an adsorption force with a vacuum pressure generated by elasticity while the concave space is flattened by an external pressure applied from the outside. However, without being limited thereto, a concave groove is formed along the outer periphery of the opening of the outer housing 101, and a plurality of communication holes communicating with the vacuum pump are constantly formed along the concave groove, so that the vacuum pump The opening of the outer housing 101 and the skin may be in close contact with each other by the vacuum pressure generated by the driving.

Therefore, it is possible to position the light source unit 100 in the position where the temporomandibular joint is located for a long time by means of the contact means 103 .

And on the outer surface of the inner housing 102, the first LED element 120 and the second LED element 130 are arranged in a random or a pattern of a corresponding shape, the first LED element 120 has a wavelength of 550 to 850 nm. of irradiating the treatment light, and the second LED device 130 irradiates far-infrared rays (light heat) having a wavelength of 900 nm or more.

Preferably, the first LED element 120 and the second LED element 130 are electrically connected to the controller 110 so that their driving and light emission intensity are controlled by the controller 110 .

In addition, a temperature sensor (not shown) is provided on the outer surface of the inner housing 102 to measure the temperature between the light source unit 100 and the skin and transmit it to the control unit 110, and the control unit ( 110) may control the driving and light emission intensity of the first LED device 120 and the second LED device 130 based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor (not shown).

Here, the outer housing 101 is described by limiting the lateral cross-sectional shape to a circular shape, but is not limited thereto, and may be formed in an elliptical quadrangular or polygonal shape along the temporomandibular joint, jaw muscle and jawbone.

In this case, the inner housing 102 is also preferably formed in a shape corresponding to the outer housing 101 so as to be coupled to the outer housing 101 .

In addition, the light source unit 100 is provided with a fixing means 200, the fixing means 200 fixing the light source 100 to the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located.

At this time, two light sources 100 may be provided in the fixing means 200 so that the light source 100 can treat a single or both left and right temporomandibular joints simultaneously. configurable.

As an example, the fixing means 200 with reference to FIG. 2 may be configured as a band having elasticity like a normal hairband, so that the circumference of the band can be selectively stretched so that it can be worn firmly on the head of various circumferences. , One end and the other end of the band are provided with a Velcro arm and a male, respectively, and the circumference of the band can be adjusted by fastening the Velcro arm and the male.

In addition, a length adjusting unit 210 may be provided between the light source unit 100 and the fixing means 200 , and the length adjusting unit 210 is configured to allow the light source unit 100 to be disposed on the temporomandibular joint position. The length of the suspension in the fixing means 200 can be adjusted.

And as another example, the fixing means 200 with reference to FIG. 3 may be configured in the form of an earring frame, and each of the left and right ends of the frame that has elasticity and is bent in a semicircular shape along the back of the head is the left side of the wearer. , to form a bent part bent in a ring shape to be hung on both right ears, and the light source unit 100 may be provided in the bent part.

As another example, the fixing means 200 with reference to FIG. 4 may be provided with the light source unit 100 on both the left and right sides of the head frame which has elasticity in the shape of a headphone and is bent along the shape of the head.

At this time, the length adjustment unit 210 is preferably provided on the line of the head frame.

As another example, the fixing means 200 with reference to FIG. 5 includes a core material 201 made of a metal material such as stainless steel, and the outer surface of the core material 201 is made of a silicone material that is harmless even in contact with the skin for a long time. ) while forming a band to maintain a circle of a certain size, the fixing means 200 may be fixed by wrapping the head around the head with the elasticity of the core 201 .

The light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 6 may include a heat source member 140 made of a heat wire as a heat source, and the heat source member 140 is the inner housing 102 of It is provided in the vicinity to provide heat of a corresponding temperature to the skin adjacent to the light source unit 100 .

Therefore, the light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain according to the above configuration performs heat treatment with the wavelength of the corresponding wavelength using an LED and heat treatment with far-infrared rays and heat sources, and conducts the resulting light heat to the deep part of the temporomandibular joint, effectively Alleviation of temporomandibular joint pain can be performed.

In addition, due to the light heat reaching the deep part of the temporomandibular joint, it takes a shorter treatment time than the conventional one, and side effects such as skin rash caused by prolonged light heat exposure can be minimized.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment shown in the drawings, which is only exemplary, 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 should be determined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

100: light source unit
101: outer housing
102: inner housing
103: adhesion means
110: control unit
120: first LED element
130: second LED device
140: heat source member
200: fixing means
210: length adjustment unit

Claims (5)

a light source unit disposed on the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located, and selectively irradiating light heat to the temporomandibular joint; and
A light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain provided in the light source unit and comprising a fixing means for fixing the light source unit to the front side of the ear where the temporomandibular joint is located.
The method according to claim 1,
the light source
A light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, characterized in that it irradiates far-infrared rays together with the treatment light of the corresponding wavelength.
3. The method according to claim 2,
the light source
a first LED device irradiating a treatment light having a wavelength of 550 to 850 nm;
A light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain, including; a second LED element irradiating far-infrared rays with a wavelength of 900 nm or more.
The method according to claim 1,
A light source therapy device for the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain, which is provided in the vicinity of the light source unit and includes a contact means for maintaining the light source unit close to the skin.
The method according to claim 1,
A light source therapy device for treating temporomandibular joint pain comprising a heat source member provided around the inner housing and providing heat of a corresponding temperature to the skin adjacent to the light source unit.

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