RU2227049C2 - Method and device for applying curative and preventive treatment - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine; medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: method involves treating hypothalamus with alternating magnetic field by using device, emitting field having frequency of 100 Hz and magnetic field intensity of 4-6 mTesla units. Then, pain points are treated with magnetic vibration field using device operating in step-wise changing frequencies of 30 Hz, 18 Hz, 10,8 Hz, 6,48 Hz, and 3,88 Hz with permissible error of 0.1-0.5 Hz on each frequency with magnetic field intensity of 4-6 mTesla units and treatment time equal to 10 min on each frequency beginning from the highest one. Treatment with low frequencies like 30 Hz and lower is applied to acupuncture points available on hand and feet with prophylactic purposes. The device has small-size body of 150x75x25 cm receiving power supply from internal accumulator giving voltage of +5 V or from external power supply source. Control units like power supply on/off button having photodiode indicating the events of critical accumulator voltage fall and frequency switch are arranged on frontal panel and laterally. Plug is available for making connection to inductors available in two versions magnetic one and vibromagnetic one being designed as solenoids enclosed in cylindrical housings of 40-50 mm large diameter and height of 20-30 mm connected to the plug via corresponding housing plug with 100 cm long electric power cord. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment. 3 cl, 2 dwg

Description

The invention relates to medicine, namely to magneto-and vibrotherapy, and can be used in cosmetology, dermatology, as well as for complex effects on the human body during prevention and treatment.

It is well known that low-frequency physiotherapy is used in rehabilitation medicine, which has a pronounced analgesic effect in most acute and chronic diseases due to:

- physiological effects with individual selection of parameters;

- slow development of adaptation to exposure;

- a wide variation in the parameters of the procedures;

- the possibility of influencing the function of the peripheral nervous system and internal organs (Solovyova GR Magneto-therapeutic equipment. - M .: Medicine, 1991).

It should be noted that a continuous magnetic field has a sedative effect, and intermittent - an exciting, stimulating effect, which is especially amplified in an irregular mode.

Such a pulsating (pulsed) magnetic field provides unidirectional electrodynamic forces that act on charged particles in the body (anions, cations, polar molecules), moving them. This allows you to activate in the body (in the area of effect) the process of diffusion, mass transfer, metabolism, increases the functional activity of individual organs and the body as a whole, i.e. a new method is implemented - magnetophoresis, i.e. a combination of two simultaneously acting therapeutic factors: a magnetic field and a medicinal or cosmetic preparation (in the form of a cream, gel, etc.), used both in massage and in treatment.

One of the problems of modern magnetotherapy is: firstly, it is inconvenient to operate due to the cumbersomeness of medical equipment, and secondly, the low therapeutic effect as a consequence of the first, because not all parts of the human body can be subjected to medical procedures, thirdly, the patient safety issue is separate, because currently, mainly for the supply of inductors, an industrial electric network ~ 220 V / 50 Hz is used.

It is known to use a traveling pulsed low-frequency magnetic field in the treatment of patients based on the Alimp-1 apparatus, which consists of a master oscillator, a power amplifier, and inductors. The device generates a magnetic field with rectangular pulses with a frequency of 10-100 Hz, with magnetic induction of 3 mT in the center and 10 mT along the edges of the inductor (see. "Problems of balneology, physiotherapy and physiotherapy", No. 4-89, M.: Medicine, pp. 43-46).

The disadvantage of this apparatus is its limited use, mainly for the treatment of lumbar osteochondrosis, due to its cumbersomeness due to the use of solenoids as inductors, which also require additional safety measures, because 220 V / 50 Hz AC network is used to power the solenoids.

However, the therapeutic use of pulsed low-frequency devices can be further expanded using new data on the physiology of the nervous system.

Studies conducted by L.Kh. Garkavi, E.B. Kvakina, T.S. Kuzmenko (1998), proved that in addition to the state of stress arising from extreme psychological, physical and physiological stresses (a variety of diseases and injuries), the body transitional states (training, calm and increased activation) may occur. Achieving these so-called adaptive reactions helps to establish the optimal functioning of not only the nervous, but also the immune systems of the body, which allows you to achieve faster recovery and prevent the occurrence of a wide variety of diseases. The activation therapy developed by L.K. Garkavi consists in calling and maintaining anti-stress reactions in the body at high levels of reactivity. The basis of activation therapy is the use of vibrational properties of the body to correct its functional state. As the main factor of influence, the author of activation therapy used the effect of a low-frequency alternating magnetic field on the brain.

It turns out that the use of low-frequency pulsed currents can be a simpler and less effective effect, since the proximity of their parameters to the fluctuations of the natural biocurrents of the human body allows rhythmically organized information that spreads along the ascending paths of the spinal cord to reach higher autonomic centers of the spinal cord. The transfer of an organism from a state of stress to a state of adaptation can be achieved by a stepwise change in the frequency or strength of the current according to the reaction coefficient selected and tested by L.Kh. Garkavi.

Fundamentally significant from a practical point of view is the possibility of using the proposed method for both local (direct lesion focus) and general (antistress) effects - PROTOTYPE, see discovery No. 158.

The disadvantages of the prototype include the following: it is accepted that the interval of the affecting frequencies among themselves is subject to a certain musical scale, namely a minor third, and the affecting effects are associated with the concept of dissonant and consonant sounds in the musical series. Practice shows that the connection between physiology and music is nothing more than a “beautiful image” and has no scientific justification. Thus, the selected frequency of exposure is only sometimes close to real, really affecting the body in the right direction.

An object of the invention is to increase the physiological effects on the nervous and immune systems of the body.

To solve this problem, a method of therapeutic and prophylactic exposure and its construct are proposed, which includes the following well-known operations (based on exposure to an alternating low and low frequency magnetic and vibration field), characterized in that for therapeutic purposes the magnetic field is preliminarily exposed to the hypothalamus with a frequency of 100 Hz and magnetic induction of 4-6 mT, after which the pain points are affected by the magneto-and vibrotherapy field with step frequencies: 30 Hz, 18 Hz, 10.8 Hz, 6.48 Hz and 3.88 Hz (with an error of 0.1-0, 5 Hz) with magnet with induction of 2-4-6 mT and an exposure time of 10 min at each frequency, starting with the highest; then, impact assessments are made, for which the percentage of peripheral blood lymphocytes is measured and the effectiveness of the effect is judged by its value; for preventive purposes, exposure to low frequencies of 30 Hz or less is carried out at acupuncture points located on the hands or feet. The construct is made in the form of a small-sized case with a size of 150 × 75 × 25 mm powered by an +5 V internal battery; on the front panel and on the side are the controls: a switch or a power on / off button with an LED indicating a critical voltage reduction and a frequency switch; there is also a connector for connecting inductors, which are made in two versions: magnetic and vibromagnetic and are solenoids placed in cylindrical bodies with a diameter of 40-50 mm and a height of 20-30 mm, connected by a connector with a mating connector of the case with an electric cord ≈100 cm long.

Figure 1 shows a schematic electrical diagram of the device according to this proposed method, figure 2 - constructive devices (General view), which depict: 1 - microcontroller, 2 - wrench switch, 3 - logical inverters (circuit NOT), 4 - transistor switch, 5 - inductor, 6 - toggle switch (button) for power on, 7 - indicator for low battery (battery) VD, X1 - output connector, X2 - connector (socket) for an external power source, AK - battery, zero bus O B and a power bus +5 V.

The output of microcontroller 1 through the first circuit is NOT connected to the VT base of the transistor switch, which is connected to +5 V through the resistor R4 as a collector VT, the VT emitter as well as the zero bus through the output connector X 1 are connected to the inductor 5, the +5 V power bus is also connected with the power input of the microcontroller 1 and with a resistive divider formed by resistors R1-R2, the middle point of which is connected to the input of the second inverter 3, the output of which is connected to a common point of the circuit formed by the resistor R3 and the VD LED, the extreme points of this circuit are connected to the power bus I (resistor R3) and zero bus 0 V (LED VD), the battery output AK through the normally open contacts of the power button Kn is connected to the power bus, and through the input connector X2 it can be connected to an external power supply of +5 V.

The indicated nodes of the circuit diagram can be performed on the following ERE and IC: microcontroller 1 - PIC16C505, Micro Chip, see Web Site: www. microchip, com .; screw switch 2 - any type, small-sized; 3 logical inverters on the IC series 133, 155 and other popular series; VD - type KIPD 21V-K and VT - type KT3102, see Catalog "Semiconductor Devices and ICs", Alexandrov, Caravel, 1995, ver. 7; the inductor 5 is a self-made principle and construct according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2159641, any resistors, for example, type AMLT, any battery voltage +5 V, preferably large capacity, at least 2-2.5 A / hour; connectors X1 and X2 of type RCA (RP), see Catalog "DC Quant", M, ul. Trubnaya, d. 36, 1997, p. 6.

The principal justification for the activity of the proposed method is the discovery of L.Kh. Garkavi, E.V. Kvakina and M.A. Ukolova (discovery No. 158), who proved that in addition to the stress reaction, antistress protection reactions develop in the human and animal body, developing in response to relatively weak or medium acting factors.

Unlike stress, which manifests itself in increased catabolism with high energy costs and which can cause damage to the internal structures of the body, antistress reactions are energetically beneficial and safe.

It is important that antistress reactions that are favorable for the body can be caused by weak acting factors even against the background of the ongoing action of strong pathogenic stimuli and, as a result, causing a targeted adaptive reaction of the body at a certain level of reactivity, you can approach the management of the body's resistance.

To achieve the state of the body, which would be characterized not by stress and damage, but by an increase in resistance, it was possible to use values smaller than stress ones.

The presence of various levels of adaptive reactions is confirmed by objective indicators of the state of the central nervous system, the level of hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary system, thyroid and genital glands, the state of the autonomic system, and the quantitative ratio of blood cells.

It is fundamentally important to detect a regular periodic recurrence of the same adaptive reactions (stress, training, quiet activation and increased activation) caused by different factors in intensity of exposure, with each reaction tetrad characterized by its level of reactivity.

Activation therapy, tested both in animal experiments and in clinical studies for various diseases and stress reactions, consists in inducing and maintaining high levels of reactivity in antistress reactions.

By empirical generalization, it was found that in order to obtain each next (previous) reaction, the magnitude of the effect should be multiplied (divided) by a factor equal to 1.1-1.25, several methods for treating diseases that are accompanied or caused by stress have been developed and tested by the magnetic field.

In this case, the greatest efficiency and safety of treatment were achieved in the influence of an alternating magnetic field (PMF) on the hypothalamus in the frequency algorithm of 0.03-9 Hz with a decrease in the intensity of induction exponentially with a coefficient of 0.7, starting from 3 mT, it turned out that the achievement of activation reactions it is also possible with indirect normalization of the hypothalamus by the action of a magnetic field on biologically active points of the body.

Considering that the tissue and cellular exposure thresholds are much larger than at the level of the whole organism, a combined exposure method was proposed: first applying low-intensity PMF to the hypothalamic region, and then, after a certain interval of time, local high-intensity PMP (A.S. No. 1474925, 1984).

Thus, the proposed method and methods of its application are based on officially registered discoveries and inventions, confirmed by numerous experimental and clinical studies.

Claims (3)

1. A method for the treatment or prevention of diseases accompanied or caused by stress, characterized in that they affect the hypothalamus with an alternating magnetic field of 100 Hz with a magnetic induction of 4-6 mT, after which they affect pain points with a magnetic vibration field of step frequencies of 30 Hz, 18 Hz, 10.8 Hz, 6.48 Hz and 3.88 Hz with an error at each frequency of 0.1-0.5 Hz, with magnetic induction of 4-6 mT, exposure time of 10 minutes at each frequency, starting with the highest. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that for prophylactic purposes, exposure to low frequencies of 30 Hz or less is carried out at acupuncture points located on the hands or feet. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the magnetic and magneto-vibrational field is influenced by the structure, which is made in the form of a small-sized case with a size of 150 × 75 × 25 mm powered by an +5 V internal battery or external source; on the front panel and side are the controls: a power on / off button with an LED indicating a critical decrease in battery voltage and a frequency switch; there is also a connector for connecting inductors, which are made in two versions - magnetic and vibromagnetic and are solenoids placed in cylindrical housings with a diameter of 40-50 mm and a height of 20-30 mm, connected by a connector with a mating connector of the housing with an electric cord ≈100 cm long.

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