RU2338509C1 - Device for tsubo-therapy - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: device for tsubo-therapy contains the working extremity made of metal and an agent for fixation on a skin of the patient. The working end is executed in the form of the cylinder, ending by a hemisphere. The agent for fixation on a skin of the patient is executed in the form of a round plate rigidly bridged to the cylinder, having the height peer to diameter of a hemisphere. The edge of a plate turned to the cylinder, is rounded off.

EFFECT: design simplification; increase of convenience of use; simplicity of disinfection; reduction traumatical risk for deeper tissues; increase of efficiency and expansion of an arsenal of means for tsubo-therapy.

3 cl, 1 dwg

Description

The present invention relates to medicine, namely to devices used in reflexology for influencing reflex points.

It is known that for the treatment of superficial reflexogenic acupuncture points, tsubo (ball) therapy is used. (Tabeeva D.M. Guidelines for acupuncture, M., Medicine, 1980, p.143-144). The disadvantage of balls is the impossibility of affecting the deep-lying layers of the skin, as well as difficulties in fixing them due to their small size (1 mm).

Known tsubo-needle (SU 1699461, A61H 39/08, 1991), taken as a prototype. The Tsubo-needle is made in the form of a hemisphere with a segment-shaped (figured) recess or several local bulges of a round (figured) shape and a needle located on the outer surface of the hemisphere. When a tsubo-needle is inserted into the body tissue, it is immersed in the skin fold to the horizontal surface of the handle, while the skin fold fills the volume of the segmented (figured) recess.

However, this device still has more properties of a needle than a ball. For example, skin is pierced, and this requires special conditions for sterilization. Called, albeit small, but pain. It is difficult to manufacture and inconvenient to use. Essentially, the prototype resembles a modified pushpin. Therefore, the tsubo-needle is hardly suitable for treating weakened, sensitive patients, those who are afraid of injections, children and the elderly. In addition, in the description of the prototype there is no data on its size.

The objective of the invention is to make the device used in reflexology for influencing reflex points simple in manufacturing, convenient for disinfection, easy to use and when fixing on the skin, reliable, effective and safe to use.

The technical result is a simplification of the design, ease of disinfection, improving ease of use, reducing trauma to deep-lying tissues, increasing efficiency by enhancing tsubo-exposure, expanding the arsenal of technical means for tsubo-therapy.

The drawing shows a diagram of the proposed device.

It is made in the form of a metal cylinder 1, ending in a hemisphere at the working end, having a height equal to the diameter and component 1-3 mm, rigidly fixed to a round plate 2 of the same metal with a thickness of 0.5-1 mm and a diameter of 2-6 mm. In this case, the edge of the plate 2 facing the cylinder is rounded.

A round plate is necessary for better fixation on the patient’s skin, for example, with a band-aid and an effective directional pressor tsubo effect.

The device is used as follows. Localization of the necessary acupuncture point for tsubo-therapy is determined. The principle of selecting exposure points with this method is similar to acupuncture.

By rotational movements of the working surface to the skin, the device is slightly deepened into the skin into the projection zone of the impact point and fixed with adhesive tape, for example with adhesive tape.

The mechanism of the reflexotherapeutic action of the device is manifested primarily by local reactions of the vascular and microvasculature in response to irritation of the receptor apparatus of the skin and deep tissues. The flow of afferent nociceptive impulses emanating from the device has a stimulating effect on segmental structures, providing the inclusion of somatosensory mechanisms of regulation of certain structural elements of the skin, muscle tissue, autonomic structures and internal organs.

Two or three times a day, 2 devices are pressed on the plate to enhance the tsubo effect. Every day, monitor the patient's condition. If his condition improves, then the devices are left depending on individual readings for up to one week. If the patient's condition remains unchanged, then the device is removed and placed on other acupuncture points. The device after use is disinfected by simple wiping with known disinfectants.

The advantages of the proposed device are that it allows you to painlessly and without damage to the skin affect the deep tissues and the surface of the reflexology points, reduces trauma to deep-lying tissues when the device is at the acupuncture point for a long time, and allows directional pressurized tubo-procedures.

Claims (3)

1. A device for tsubo-therapy containing a working end made of metal and means for fixing on the patient’s skin, characterized in that the working end is made in the form of a cylinder ending in a hemisphere, and the means for fixing on the patient’s skin is made in the form of a round plate connected to a cylinder having a height equal to the diameter of the hemisphere, while the edge of the plate facing the cylinder is rounded. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the height of the metal cylinder, equal to the diameter, is 1-3 mm 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the round plate is 0.5-1 mm, a diameter of 2-6 mm.