RU2153369C1 - Method for forming magnetotherapeutic treatment action - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves forming virtual magnetotherapeutic treatment action based on sending electric signals as binary impulse sequences of controllable frequency and on/off time ratio into n inductors during given time interval. The n inductors are arranged all over the whole patient body for creating general magnetotherapeutic medium. Visually perceptible virtual varying magnetic field image is reproduced before the patient eyes. The image moves on human phantom and is built by computer processing signals describing electric current values coming from every inductor unit. Patient hands are placed on control units so that one hand is used for controlling inductor connection frequencies and the other one controls electric signal parameters in the inductor units. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment due to biofeedback influence. 1 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to the field of medical technology and can be used to create diagnostic and treatment complexes and magnetic therapy devices for the treatment and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases.

 A known method of forming a magnetotherapeutic effect for a patient, implemented in the device [1], based on the supply of current signals to the magnetic field inductors for a given period of time. However, this method has low functionality, since the specified time intervals, amplitudes and polarities of the electrical signals are fixed for the treatment session and are associated with the structural structures of the device.

 A known method of forming a magnetotherapeutic effect around a patient, implemented in the device [2], based on the supply of current signals to the inductors of the magnetic field for a given period of time. However, the implementation of the known method does not allow to quickly form and change the sequence of magnetotherapy effects with different durations and intensities during one session.

 Closest to the claimed are methods of forming a magnetotherapeutic effect on the entire patient, implemented by combining the device [3] and method [4], based on the supply of "n" inductors of electrical signals in the form of binary pulse sequences of adjustable frequency and duty cycle for a given period of time moreover, "n" inductors are placed around the entire patient to form a common magnetotherapeutic environment. However, the known methods do not allow the patient to observe and adequately compare their feelings with the influence of a moving magnetic field along it with the ability to control its biotropic parameters during the session.

 The task is achieved by placing a visible virtual image of a changing magnetic field moving along the phantom of a person in front of the patient’s eyes, formed by a computer based on signals about the magnitude of the electric current of each inductor, and the patient’s hands are placed on the controls, with one hand controlling the frequency of connecting the inductors, and the other with parameters of electric signals in the inductors.

 The drawing shows a variant of the device that implements the proposed method.

 The device includes a shaper of “m” binary pulse sequences - 1, “n” inductors located around and along all parts of the patient’s body - 2, a virtual display - 3, computers - 4, a control element for the frequency of connecting inductors - 5, a control body for parameters of pulse sequences - 6.

 The device from [4] can be used as a shaper of binary pulse sequences, the device [3] can be used as a system of “n” inductors located throughout the patient, and the virtual helmet display model VFX can be used as a virtual display to form a visible image -1 [5], as controls for frequency and duty cycle, you can use standard devices such as a mouse or joystick.

 The essence of the method of forming a virtual magnetotherapeutic effect is as follows. In “shaper 1” independently “m” binary pulse sequences of electrical signals are generated in the form of currents, which enter the system of “n” inductors -2 located throughout the patient and structurally made in the form of a suit, or a spacesuit, or lodgement, or box, etc. P. The parameters of the pulsed binary sequences determine the values of the intensity, direction of the vectors and the speed of movement of the magnetic field in the system of "n" inductors and are set to computer - 4. Information about the current values of the average current in each inductor comes from the shaper - 1 also to the computer - 4, where a special program on a virtual display - 3 forms the current visible image of the phantom of a person with different colors of its individual parts, depending on the intensity and directional vector of the magnetic field in accordance in the best place of the phantom. If at the same time an electric current is connected to the inductors in time, then the current visible image of the magnetic field in the form of a different color in the dynamics moves along the phantom of the person, thereby simulating the corresponding actual movement of the magnetic field through the patient. Thus, the patient's unconscious sensations of the magnetic field due to the lack of appropriate receptors in the person are replaced by the conscious perception of the visible image of the field dynamics. As a result, a person begins to consciously sense a magnetic field, and the body begins to adequately respond to it. To get a more comfortable feeling, the controls for the field parameters are put into the patient’s hands. The right hand with the help of control 5 controls the frequency of connecting the inductors, which is reflected by the change in the speed of the magnetic field moving around the patient and, accordingly, on the virtual display along the phantom of the person, and the left hand with the help of control 6 controls the parameters of binary pulse sequences, which changes the intensity and polarity of the magnetic field and the display is reflected by the change in intensity and color of the color of the phantom of the person in appropriate places. In the process of teaching the patient the ability to sense a magnetic field, two aspects are manifested. Firstly, the patient himself selects an individual configuration of the magnetic field that is optimal for him during treatment. Secondly, the process of selecting the configuration and its final form are a good diagnostic tool for determining the type and place of the disease. The doctor, observing on his display the same picture as the patient, firstly, can direct and limit the patient’s actions by changing the magnetic field configuration parameters, and, secondly, by analyzing the patient’s actions, he can diagnose his condition and diseases.

 Thus, the proposed method is today the first real way to include “feedback” in magnetic field treatment, which, as experience shows, is highly individualized and poorly amenable to a priori medical prognosis.

Literature
1. Copyright certificate of the USSR N 1498504, cl. A 61 N 2/04, 1989

 2. USSR author's certificate N 1569025, cl. A 61 N 2/00, 1990

 3. RF patent N 2003361, cl. A 61 N 2/02, 1993

 4. RF patent N 2090217, class. A 61 N 2/00, 1997

 5. PC Magazine / Russian Edition, N 6, 1995.

Claims (1)

 A method of forming a magnetotherapeutic effect based on the supply of electric signals to n inductors in the form of binary pulse sequences of adjustable duty cycle frequency for a given period of time, with n inductors placed throughout the patient to form a general magnetotherapeutic environment, characterized in that a visible virtual is placed in front of the patient’s eyes image of a changing magnetic field moving along the phantom of a person, formed by a computer based on signals of magnitude not the electric current of each inductor, but the patient’s hands are placed on the controls, with one hand controlling the frequency of connection of the inductor, and the other with the parameters of the electrical signals in the inductors.