RU2476196C2 - Method for prolonged exposure on acupuncture points and needle for implementing method - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely reflex therapy. What is declared is the group of inventions involving a method for prolonged exposure on acupuncture points and a reflex therapy needle. The method involves localising the acupuncture points and inserting the reflex therapy needle therein. Before inserting, the needle ends are drawn together. Then, they are tightly pressed to skin within the acupuncture exposure to form a dip. The pointed needle ends are inserted subcutaneously in the different directions. A middle portion of the needle is dropped therefor. The reflex therapy needle comprises the double-edged ends. The needle is designed so that to force the ends to be drawn together. When dropped, the needle ends are reset. Thereby the needle ends are inserted subcutaneously in the different directions horizontally and parallel to patient's skin.

EFFECT: group of inventions reduces labour input of the therapy ensured by higher ease-to-use and simplified needle insertion procedure.

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Description

The invention relates to medicine, treatment using acupuncture, a feature of which is the prolongation of the process of acupuncture effects on the patient’s body with a needle held in the patient’s body for a predetermined time after administration.

There is a known method of acupuncture with prolonged exposure (patent RU 2365368), in which the entry and exit points of the needle are selected, the needle is drawn through the selected points, both ends of the needle are left outside the patient’s skin, the needle is fixed by means of clamps installed on the ends of the needle, and the needle is left in the body the patient for a given time, forming the acus tract, and the latter is formed according to the same pattern, alternately or simultaneously in different histological layers of tissues, removing or leaving the needle inserted in the previous session, and as the points of entry and / or exit of the needle select points located in the region of the acupuncture point and / or reflexogenic zone, and / or outside the acupuncture point and / or reflexogenic zone.

A known method of prolonged exposure to acupuncture points (patent RU 2320311), which consists in determining the acupuncture points, one of which is selected by the entry point of the needle, and the other by its exit point, then these points are pruned by stringing them with one needle, with one or both end sections of the needle are bent to form clamps from them, either by winding the bent end of the needle around its free section, or with the formation of a tangle from the bent end of the needle or at least one coil of a spiral.

A device for acupuncture is known (patent RU 2305536), containing acupuncture and acupressure elements, while the acupuncture element is made in the form of a rod needle, and the acupressure element is made in the form of a plate or volumetric body, directly or through a locking element, not detachably connected to one end of the rod needles and detachably connected by means of a clamp to the other end of the core needle.

Known needle for acupuncture (patent RU 2286133), consisting of a rod with a head, on the free end of which is attached a removable latch, while the head of the rod is made volumetric, lamellar or ring-shaped, and the latch is made lamellar or volumetric.

A device for acupuncture is known (patent RU 62014U), containing a rod and a locking element, not detachably connected to one end of the rod and detachably connected by a latch to the other end of the rod.

Known needle for acupuncture (patent RU 57597U), containing a rod with a head, while the entire rod or its free end is made of material having plastic properties with the possibility of the formation of a bent free end of the rod of the latch.

The disadvantage of these technical solutions is that when the needle is inserted and removed from the patient’s body, the needle passes a long section under the skin, while the effect on biologically active points is required only in certain areas. This significantly increases the complexity of the method and complicates the treatment procedure and reduces the quality and effectiveness of the treatment.

A known needle for eliminating wrinkles and lifting the skin of the face and / or body of a patient (patent RU 58359U), containing a rod, one handle is made on one end, while the rod is made straight with a relief surface or it has a different surface. The needle is injected subcutaneously, intramuscularly and into the subcutaneous fat. This needle provides a way to enter it through one point. For simultaneous exposure to other acupuncture points in other parts of the body, this needle is not applicable.

A known method of acupuncture (RU 2405530 C1, 12/10/2010), including conducting a treatment session by introducing at least one double-sided needle into the points of biologically active zones (BAS) of the patient, while the pointed ends of the needle bent towards each other are pre-bred, and then, when inserted, they are deepened into the BAS points and closed, after which a treatment session is carried out, after which the pointed ends of the double-sided needle are bred and the needle is removed from the points, characterized in that when the double-sided needle is inserted, an additional negative impact on the needle until the cross-closure of its pointed ends with an overlap.

The specified patent RU 2405530 C1 describes a double-sided acupuncture needle containing an arched handle made of a medically neutral material, on both sides of which there are rods having end parts with pointed ends, made curved towards each other and designed to be pierced into points of biologically active zones ( BAZ) of the patient’s body, characterized in that the end parts with the pointed ends of the rods are bent towards each other so that in a free state they are located crosswise overlapped, and the tangents of their longitudinal axes at the intersection point are at an angle α = 150-170 °, while the distance A between the pointed ends of the cross-lap overlapped end parts is A = 2-8 mm. The double-sided acupuncture needle according to claim 2, characterized in that the arcuate handle is made in the form of a part of a ring with a diameter of D = 4-10 mm, and the rods and their end parts with pointed ends are made curved towards each other along an arc whose radius in the plane is arched the handle is R ₁ = 2-5 mm. The double-sided acupuncture needle according to claim 2, characterized in that the arcuate handle is made in the form of a part of a ring with a diameter of D = 4-10 mm, and the rods and their end parts with pointed ends are bent towards each other along an arc whose radius in the plane is arched the handle is R ₁ = 2-5 mm, while the end parts with pointed ends are bent from the rods in an arc whose radius is R ₂ = 3-7 mm.

Close to that presented in this description is a known method of prolonged exposure to acupuncture points (patent RU 2289391 C2, 12.20.2006), which consists in the fact that it contains sequentially performed operations: the operation of topographic determination of acupuncture points, one of which is selected by the needle entry point, and the other is the point of her exit, the operation of performing acupuncture of these points by stringing them with one needle and the third operation is fixing the needle with a latch. The use of a fixer increases the complexity of the method and complicates it in terms of ease of treatment. The disadvantage of this technical solution is that when the needle is inserted and withdrawn from the patient’s body, the needle passes a long section under the skin, while exposure to biologically active points is required only in certain areas. All this also increases the complexity of the method, complicates the treatment procedure, reduces its quality and effectiveness.

In the well-known patent (RU 2018300 C1, 08/30/1994) a needle is described having two pointed ends that are parallel to each other and their tips are directed to one side, while the needle has a middle part located between the ends of the needle.

The known needle according to patent RU 2018300 can be used provided that "the split parts of the working rod at the lower base of the handle are caught with tweezers or a special clamp."

Known technical solutions that are close to the claimed technical solutions do not meet the requirements of reducing the complexity of treatment and improving its quality, since the known treatment methods used are associated with a complex procedure for inserting a needle into the patient’s body, its fixation, relatively large areas of the body affected by the needle, which ultimately adversely affects the quality of treatment.

The technical result of the invention is to reduce the complexity and improve the quality of treatment, increase the convenience of inserting a needle into the patient’s body.

The technical result is obtained by the method of prolonged exposure to acupuncture points, which consists in the fact that it contains operations of topographic determination of acupuncture points and acupuncture points, moreover, acupuncture of at least two points is performed simultaneously by one needle having two pointed ends by moving these ends in in opposite directions, the needle is inserted under the patient’s skin with the two indicated ends so that the middle part of the needle remains on the skin surface, and before being introduced With the ends of the needle into the patient’s body, the ends are moved to each other, for which the middle part of the needle is squeezed or squeezed, then the ends of the needle are pressed to the acupuncture zone of the skin until the ends of the needle form a depression on its surface between the acupuncture points, then the middle part of the needle is compressed or stretched release and provide the possibility of introducing the ends of the needle under the skin of the patient’s body with elastic forces of the middle part of the needle.

The technical result is obtained by a needle for implementing the method, containing two pointed ends and an elastic middle part located between the ends of the needle, while the ends of the needle are located in the same plane and are directed in opposite directions.

The ends of the needle are made straight, and the middle part is Λ-shaped, or Λ-shaped with a rounded loop at the top, or Λ-shaped with a spring located between the elements of the middle part, or it is made of metal with the property of shape recovery .

On figa shows the position of the needle in the patient’s body, two ends of the needle are introduced into the body;

On figb shows the position of the needle before it is inserted into the patient’s body, the ends of the needle are moved to each other to the minimum possible distance;

On figv shows the position of the ends of the needle while removing one of them from the patient’s body, the arrows show the directions of movement of the ends of the needle to each other during compression of the middle part of the needle;

On fig.1g shows the position of the ends of the needle after removing one of them from the patient’s body, the lower arrow shows the direction of movement of the end of the needle during its removal from the patient’s body;

on Fig 2A shows the execution of the middle part of the needle with a softening tip having a rounded shape;

in Fig.2b shows the execution of the middle part of the needle with a spring,

on Fig 2B - the execution of the middle part of the needle of metal with properties that allow the needle to restore its shape;

Figs. 2d and 2e show the execution of the middle part of the needle with its loops of various shapes;

on figa - the needle, the middle part of which is in the initial position, the ends of the needle are maximally distant from each other;

on figb - the needle, the middle part of which is stretched to the sides, the ends of the needle are as close as possible to each other, the needle is prepared for its introduction into the patient's body;

figure 4 shows one example of its introduction into the patient’s body through three points;

on figa - the arrangement of the needles on the patient’s body, the middle part of each needle is lowered flat on the patient’s body and fixed on it with a plaster, top view;

Fig.5b is a diagram of the location of the needles on the patient's body, view A in Fig.5a.

The needle contains the pointed ends 1 (Fig. 1a) and a compressible middle part 2. When the middle part 2 is compressed, the ends 1 move to each other, and when the middle part is compressed, the ends of the needle move in opposite directions from each other and are introduced into the patient’s body under his skin 3. In another embodiment of the needle, when its middle part 2 is squeezed out (FIG. 3b), the ends 1 move to each other and come closer, and when the compression force (FIG. 3a) is removed from the middle part of the needle, the ends 1 of the needle are removed from each other, moved to opposite sides under the action of forces Roughnesses of the middle part are introduced by these forces into the patient's body under his skin. In any of these options, before the needle is inserted into the patient’s body, it is pressed tightly against the acupuncture zone, forming a recess in the skin. After that, the ends of the needle are inserted under the skin of the patient’s body.

To enter the ends of the needle 1 into the patient’s body (figa - fig.1d) compressible middle part 2 of the needle is released, and the ends 1 of the needle move in opposite directions from each other under the action of elastic forces of the middle part 2 of the needle, while the ends 1 of the needle are under the skin of 3 patients. To remove the needle from the patient’s body, the ends of the needle are moved in the opposite direction, they are brought together by squeezing the middle part 2 of the needle (Fig. 1b), while the ends 1 of the needle come out from under the skin 3. After this action, the needle is moved away from the patient’s body. It is possible to sequentially remove each end of the needle from the patient’s body as shown in FIGS. 1c and 1d.

For the convenience of work, various needle designs are used. For example, in order to soften the compression force of the middle part 2 of the needle, its top is equipped with a softening tip 4 of a rounded shape (figa). To straighten the needle or return it to its original inoperative position in the middle part 2 of another variant of the needle, there is a spring 5 located in the middle part 2 of the needle, as shown in Fig.2b. In the third embodiment, the needle is made of metal having the properties to restore its shape (pigv). The middle part 2 of the needle has various shapes, made as they are shown in figa, figa, fig.2g, fig.2d, figa.

Figure 2 g shows the position of the ends of the needle, the middle part of which is not strained (not compressed and not stretched), in this position of the needle its ends are inserted under the skin of the patient's body. On fig.2d shows the position of the ends of the same needle (fig.2d), the middle part of which is in a state of compression of the loop 6 of the middle part. These are the positions of the ends of the needle prepared for their insertion under the skin of the patient’s body. The loop 6 has a variety of shapes that are selected from the calculation of optimizing the compression forces of the middle part in order to improve the usability of the needle.

In the case of using the needle, which is shown in figa, its middle part 2 is expanded (stretched) in different directions to pull the ends 1 of the needle in different directions, move them to the position shown in fig.3b. The position of the needle in figa corresponds to its position when there is no tensile stress on its middle part 2. In this position, the ends of the needle are inserted under the skin of the patient's body. In order to introduce the ends 1 of the needle under the skin of the patient’s body, its middle part 2 is stretched to the sides according to the arrows shown in fig.3b. In this position, the needle is prepared for insertion under the skin of the patient’s body. Mentioned stretching of the middle part 2 of the needle is produced by inserting the fingers in the loop 6 of the middle part 2, followed by pushing the sides of the middle part of the needle in different directions.

The method is as follows. The locations of the acupuncture points, for example the location of at least two points, are determined, and then the acupuncture is performed by the needle described above, moreover, the acupuncture of two points is performed simultaneously by one needle having two pointed ends 1 (Fig. 1a). Acupuncture is carried out by moving the ends of the 1 needle in opposite directions. The needle is inserted under the patient’s skin with the two indicated ends 1 so that the middle part 2 of the needle remains on the skin surface. Before introducing the ends of the needle into the patient’s body, the ends 1 of the needle are moved towards each other, for which the middle part of the needle is compressed or expanded. Next, the ends of the needle are pressed against the acupuncture zone of the skin until the ends of the needle form a recess on its surface. Then, the middle part 2 of the needle is acted in the reverse order — it is squeezed or squeezed — and the needle ends can be inserted under the skin of the patient’s body due to the elastic forces of the middle part of the needle.

The impact on the acupuncture points of the patient is such that each of the introduced ends of the needle is one place (zone) of exposure. This method involves the introduction of the ends of the needle into the patient’s body at several points.

After introducing the ends of the needle 1 under the skin of the patient’s body, the middle part 2 of the needle is lowered, laid flat on the skin as shown in FIG. 5. In this position, the needle self-fixes with its ends 1, located horizontally under the skin of the patient’s body and the middle part, lying flat on the skin of the patient’s body. The needle can be covered, for example, with a patch 7 and additionally fixed to the skin of the patient’s body.

The method involves reducing the area of passage of the ends of the needle in the patient’s body, the procedure for introducing the needle is less painful and traumatic by reducing the areas of passage of the ends of the needle, and treatment is more effective. The procedure is simplified, the complexity is reduced. This is achieved due to the fact that the ends of the needle are located horizontally in one plane, parallel to the skin of the patient and in different directions. The force of movement of one end of the needle balances the force of movement of the other end of the needle in the opposite direction, the skin between the points of entry of the ends of the needle into it while it enters the patient’s body is stretched, the penetration of the needles into the skin is facilitated. Since during the time the ends of the needle are in the patient’s body, the ends of the needle are constantly pressed to acupuncture points, the treatment effect is accordingly increased.

Claims (7)

1. Needle for acupuncture, containing double-edged ends, characterized in that it is made with the possibility of forced compression of the ends to each other so that when released, the ends of the needle return to their original position and thereby are introduced under the skin in different directions horizontally and parallel to the patient’s skin. 2. The needle according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made Λ-shaped in the middle part. 3. The needle according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made with a loop in the middle part. 4. The needle according to claim 2, characterized in that it is made with the possibility of straightening after compression under the action of a spring. 5. The needle according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that it is made of metal having the property of shape recovery. 6. The needle according to claim 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, characterized in that at the top there is a softening tip of a rounded shape. 7. A method of prolonged exposure to acupuncture points, including the determination of acupuncture points and the subsequent simultaneous introduction into them of the pointed ends of the needle for acupuncture, characterized in that the needle for acupuncture according to claim 1 is introduced, while before the introduction, the ends of the needle are pulled together, then they are pressed tightly against the skin in the acupuncture zone with the formation of a recess and the pointed ends of the needle are inserted under the skin in different directions, releasing the middle part of the needle.

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