RU2197283C2 - Device for carrying out rhythmoelectrophotoaudiostimulation in psychotherapy sessions - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has interphone headset with four optic nerve photostimulator units fixed thereon (two rows of two lamps of 3.5 V, 0.26 A). The stimulator units are connected to control unit with wires. The control unit has power supply source, amplifier, mixer and control desk. Impulse frequency coming from electronic metronome, photostimulator lamp luminescence intensity and sound intensity in headphones are tuned from the control desk. The device has microphone coupled with the photostimulator units and device for carrying out electric procedures. Constant rhythm is sent to unit for stimulating vision analyzer and to headphones by using the electronic metronome. Psychotherapeutic speech rhythm is transformed into electric impulse rhythm by means of device for carrying out electric procedures. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment. 1 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to medicine and engineering psychology.

 Known multifunctional apparatus for electroreflexotherapy "Ray-1" [1], with which it is possible to conduct electrical procedures with the electric current of the required parameters. The apparatus consists of a “node for influencing biologically active points” and a “node for finding biologically active points” connected to a sound frequency generator that turns on when a biologically active point is found. To adjust the duration of the procedure, the circuit includes a "counter of the number of cycles" [2]. However, its design does not provide for rhythmoelectrostimulation synchronously with the speech of the therapist.

 A light-sound device for psychophysiological relaxation is known, comprising a control unit, a light pulse shaper, a photoconverter, a controlled sound generator, an electro-acoustic transducer, and headphones. The control unit is connected to the light pulse shaper.

 However, the aforementioned device is not connected with the speech of the psychotherapist conducting the autotraining training session, or the treatment session using a different technique, and the rhythm set by the device does not have an exact and flexible connection with the psychotherapist's speech rhythm. In addition, the rhythm of the current flow is not synchronized with the speech of the therapist.

 The technical result is to increase the psychological impact on psychotherapeutic sessions due to synchronization with the speech of the therapist.

 The technical result is achieved by the presence in the device of a microphone that transforms the speech of a psychotherapist into an electrical impulse coming through an amplifier, mixer and control panel to one row of light stimulators, and through an apparatus for conducting electrical procedures on electrodes acting on biologically active points or reflexogenic zones.

 The proposed device (drawing) is a headset with four light stimulators of the optic nerve mounted on it at eye level (2 rows of 2 bulbs 3.5 V 0.26 A) 1, connected by wires to a control device consisting of a voltage source 2, amplifier 3, mixer 7, control panel 4, with which you can adjust the frequency of pulses from the electronic metronome, the intensity of the glow of the light stimulator bulbs and the intensity of the sound that occurs in the headphones. The device includes a microphone 5, which through the amplifier causes flashes of light stimulators and pulses in the device for conducting electrical procedures, an electronic metronome 6, through which a constant rhythm is applied to the stimulators of the visual analyzer and headphones 9, and an instrument for conducting electrical procedures 8, through which the speech rhythm the psychotherapist, transformed into the rhythm of electrical impulses, is fed through the electrodes 10 to biologically active points or to reflexogenic zones.

 The device operates as follows. The headset is put on the patient's head so that the light stimulators of the visual analyzers are located at eye level. The speech of the psychotherapist (sound signal) when it is transmitted to the microphone is transformed into an electrical impulse (the intensity of the pulse can be adjusted), which is sent to two light stimulants (1 row of lamps) and causes a light signal. The resulting light signal corresponds to the rhythm of the speech of the therapist. In addition, the electric pulse from the microphone enters the device for conducting electrical procedures, activating it, and to the electrodes. The rhythm of the electrical signal supplied to the electrodes corresponds to the rhythm of the speech of the therapist. The electrodes are strengthened by acupuncture points or reflexogenic zones provided for in the treatment plan drawn up by the doctor. As a result of this, every word said by the therapist is "confirmed" by the impulse of a small electric current, for the therapeutic purpose supplied to the patient's acupuncture points. An electronic metronome is connected to two other stimulants (2 rows of lamps) of the visual analyzer, which feeds them with a constant rhythm of the light signal set by the doctor. Two light rhythms are superimposed: a flexible one, created by the doctor’s voice, and a constant one, given by an electronic metronome. To influence the auditory analyzer, the device has headphones, which are fed a signal from an electronic metronome. Headphones enable the patient to simultaneously hear the rhythm of the metronome and the doctor’s speech.

 This device allows you to enhance the verbal psychotherapeutic effect on the patient while learning his autotraining technique, conducting therapeutic psychotherapeutic sessions due to the synchronous effect on the auditory and visual analyzers, as well as due to the synchronous electrotherapeutic effect.

Sources of information
1. Multifunctional apparatus for electroreflexotherapy "LUCH-1" Operation manual. 2.940.021 RE.

 2. RF patent 2063257 C1, 07/10/1996.

Claims (1)

 Rhythmoelectrophoto-audio stimulation device for psychotherapeutic sessions, consisting of light stimulators, headphones, a control device and an apparatus for conducting electro-puncture with electrodes, characterized in that the device is equipped with a microphone and an electronic metronome, light stimulators are installed in the headset and consist of two rows of lamps, the control device includes a source voltage, amplifier, mixer and control panel, while the microphone through the control device is connected to one row of lamps of light stimulators and with a device for conducting electropuncture and electrodes, and an electronic metronome connected to headphones and a second row of lamps.