WO1998017225A1 - Aiguille d'acupuncture chauffante - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H39/00—Devices for locating or stimulating specific reflex points of the body for physical therapy, e.g. acupuncture
- A61H39/06—Devices for heating or cooling such points within cell-life limits
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- Y10S128/00—Surgery
- Y10S128/907—Acupuncture
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- the present invention relates to the field of medicine, more particularly traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and moxatherapy and relates to a heating acupuncture needle.
- Acupuncture with the use of a means of heating at the acupuncture point is a traditional technique which generally uses mugwort or another means, most often vegetable, brought to very high temperature, namely consuming itself at the way of an ember.
- the arrangement of sagebrush or glowing charcoal on the sleeve provided at the end of the acupuncture needles presents a significant risk of contact of said sagebrush or of charcoal directly with the skin and therefore of deep burning of it, due to the temperature of incandescence of sagebrush or charcoal which is of the order of 700 ° C. It is therefore necessary, on the one hand, that the practitioner has the needles acupuncture in such a way that the heat source remains at least two centimeters from the skin and, on the other hand, that during the treatment, the patient remains absolutely immobile in order to avoid any risk of contact between sagebrush or charcoal of wood and the skin following a movement of the needle due to its bending capacity. This also leads to the need to achieve a puncture depth of at least 5 mm, which prevents the treatment of difficult to puncture areas, such as the scalp and face. Likewise, the treatment of hairy areas may require a prior shaving of the skin.
- EP-A-552 482 it has also been proposed, by EP-A-552 482, to heat an acupuncture point by means of an electric type heating source, said heating source cooperating with an application surface of the heat can be placed on the acupuncture point.
- an electric type heating source cooperating with an application surface of the heat can be placed on the acupuncture point.
- Such a device certainly allows safe and perfectly controlled heating at the acupuncture point, but, however, the device according to this document EP-A-552 482 does not make it possible to obtain regular deep heating over the entire depth. , human tissue.
- a heating acupuncture needle provided with an external heat source cooperating with a heating means, which is integrated into the needle over the entire length thereof and is in the form a thermal conductor or a resistive wire, one end of which is flush with the upper end of the needle head and is in contact with a wall which conducts the heat source.
- Such a needle makes it possible to heat, in the depth of the dermis, at the point of acupuncture or reflexotherapy, so that it is possible to perform a non-exclusive monopunctual stimulation, of variable depth and extent by means of '' a portable and autonomous assembly which does not require an external connection via wires or other cabling.
- a thermal conductor or a resistive wire in the coips of the needle the latter is less flexible, which results in a lower efficiency.
- the present invention aims to overcome the drawbacks of known heated acupuncture needles, by proposing such a needle having a flexibility comparable to that of conventional acupuncture needles, while allowing results of regular and constant penetration of heat into human tissue at least comparable to those obtained by traditional means of acupuncture with moxas.
- the subject of the invention is a heating acupuncture needle provided with an external energy source cooperating with a heating means forming an integral part of the needle and extending over the entire length of the latter.
- the heating means is in the form of a thin resistive envelope surrounding the body of the needle over its entire surface, with the exception of the upper end of its head, which remains coated.
- FIG. 1 is a view in elevation and in section, greatly enlarged of a needle according to the invention
- Figures 2 and 3 are partial sectional views of detail greatly enlarged of two embodiments of ends of needles.
- FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing shows a heating acupuncture needle 1 provided with an external energy source 2 which cooperates with a heating means 3 forming an integral part of the needle 1 and extending over the entire length of that -this.
- the heating means 3 is in the form of a thin resistive envelope surrounding the body of the needle 1 over its entire surface, with the exception of the upper end of its head l ', which remains unpaved.
- this resistive envelope is advantageously constituted by a thin insulating layer 13 entirely surrounding the body of the needle 1 with the exception of the upper end of the head 1 'and the end of the tip and itself covered, over its entire surface, with a very thin electrically conductive layer 14, this conductive layer 14 also covering the end of the tip not provided with the thin layer insulating 13.
- This characteristic appears in the greatly enlarged detail section view of a needle end according to FIG. 2 of the appended drawing, in which the means 3 is represented by two lines extending on either side of the body of the needle 1, while the very thin electrically conductive layer 14 also surrounding the point is represented by a single line parallel to this point.
- the thin insulating layer 13 can advantageously be constituted by an epoxy, polyurethane or fluorinated resin, of the tetrafluoroethylene type, and the layer 14 conducting electricity can be a metal film, in particular of biocompatible metal.
- the thickness of the composite layer forming the heating means 3 is advantageously small compared to the diameter of the body of the needle and is preferably less than 0.1 diameter .
- the needle according to the invention will have a flexibility substantially comparable to that of a conventional acupuncture needle.
- the resins used are advantageously flexible and adhere well to the steel constituting the body of the needle 1.
- these resins are biocompatible.
- these resins have a viscosity allowing their deposition in the form of very thin layers and they are metallizable.
- the coating of the body of the needle 1 with the resin layer is carried out by dipping or any other coating technique and the subsequent deposition of the conductive layer 14 is carried out chemically or physically.
- the insulating layer 13 is preferably a polyurethane resin of the type of that known under the trade name ESTHANE 5715P from the company BF GOODRICH. This resin makes it possible to obtain adherent, smooth and insulating deposits.
- the heating means 3 in the form of a thin composite layer 13 ′ in a resistive material completely covering the body. of the needle with the exception of the upper end of its head, this composite layer itself being covered by a layer 14 conductive of electricity.
- a material can advantageously be either a resin of the polytetrafluoroethylene type loaded, for example, with carbon black powder or a metallic powder, or a conductive epoxy resin of the type known under the trade name EPO-TEK H20E or EPO- TEK 417 from EPOTECNY.
- the external conductive layer 14 remains completely separated from the body of the needle 1 by the resin constituting the layer 13 'and this layer 14 also covers the end of the tip of the needle 1.
- the external conductive layer 14 can then have almost zero resistance, because it is not used. As a result, an electric current, flowing between the body of the needle 1 and the outer layer 14, will pass through the resistive layer 13 'throughout its entire mass.
- the heating means 3 is in the form of a thin resistive envelope, the resistance of which gradually decreases from the head of the needle 1 to its tip. This results in a possibility of achieving a gradual loss of thermal energy, which corresponds to a gradual decrease in the temperature from the head to the tip of the needle, in contrast to the embodiment described above, in which the loss is uniform.
- the needle can behave identically to a conventional acupuncture needle heated by any traditional external means.
- the resistance of the resistive envelope may, for example, be between 10 ohms, in the case of a constitution in the form of an external metallic layer, and 100 ohms, in the case of an embodiment of the means. 3 in the form of a thin composite layer 13 ′ made of a resistive material, this composite layer itself being covered by a layer 14 conducting electricity.
- a needle coated with such a complex has a mechanically stable surface and a thermally stable undercoat and allows radiation in the air of variable energy, by modulating the intensity in a range between 20 mA and 200 mA for a resistance between 10 ohms and 100 ohms, for one hour without altering said coating.
- the external energy source 2 is preferably in the form of a receptacle provided at its lower part with a housing 4 for receiving and electrically connecting a head 1 'to the end of the needle 1 and accommodating in a chamber 5 a device 6, removable or fixed, for producing electric current, said chamber 5 being closed in leaktight manner by a cover 7, an electrically conductive wall 8 being provided between the housing 4 for receiving the head 1 ', from which it is electrically isolated, and chamber 5.
- This receptacle can be provided, at its end for receiving the head of the end of the needle 1, with a means 9 for holding the head of the said needle 1 in its housing 4.
- This means for holding 9 can be in the form of disc sectors 10 slidably mounted at the base of the receptacle forming the energy source 2 against the action of return springs.
- the housing 5 has a depth such that in the event of the disc sectors 10 being closed around the head l 'of the needle 1, the upper end of said head l' of the needle 1 is applied against the electrically conductive wall 8 provided between the chamber 5 for receiving the device 6 for producing electricity and the housing 4.
- the conductive wall 8 is mounted on the bottom of the receptacle forming the energy source 2 via an insulating cylinder 1 1 and is isolated from the housing 4 by an insulating plate 12.
- the electricity produced by the device 6 is transmitted, on the one hand, to the wall 8 and, on the other hand, to the housing 4 which is in contact with the conductive envelope of the heating means 3.
- the closure of the electrical circuit results in heating of the resistive coating, over its entire length and a transfer of heat from the needle, to the surrounding tissues.
- the device 6 is constituted, for example, by an electric battery of the button cell type or even by an electric accumulator. In such a case, it is sufficient, after fitting the needle 1, to fix the energy source 2 on the head 1 ′ of the needle 1, so that the means 3 of the needle 1 is in electrical contact with the battery forming the device 6 via the conductive wall 8 and the housing 4 and can heat up. This results in a rise in temperature of the assembly of the needle, so that the tissue in which the needle is planted undergoes, over the entire penetration depth of the needle 1, a corresponding constant heating over the entire length. or modulated on it. This has the effect of stimulating the deep layers of the organism and the neurovascular complexes according to a principle of temperature balancing comparable to the functioning of a cooling circuit. In particular, in the efficiency perimeter of the needle, the blood micro-circulation is increased.
- the needle according to the invention may undergo, for treatment, a temperature increase allowing dissipation in the tissues of sufficient energy, equivalent to that dissipated by a traditionally heated needle.
- This increase in temperature can be obtained, in a known manner, by a choice of the optimal resistance of the heating means 3 and of the intensity delivered by the battery or the electric accumulator.
- the modulation of the degree of heat to be obtained can be perfectly delimited. Thanks to the invention, it is possible to carry out heating, in the depth of the dermis, at the acupuncture or reflexotherapy point by means an acupuncture needle with flexibility comparable to that of conventional acupuncture needles and over the entire length of the needle.
- the amount of thermal energy dissipated is constant over the punctured neurovascular complex. It is thus possible to carry out a non-exclusive single-point stimulation, of variable depth and extent by means of a portable and autonomous assembly which does not require an external connection by means of wires or other cabling.
- the duration of the heat treatment can be perfectly controlled by interrupting the production of heat directly by intervention on the external energy source or by separation of this source from the head 1 ′ of the needle 1.
- the needle 1 can have a straight shape or a curved shape depending on the implantation points and have an end in the shape of "seven stars" or "plum blossom", that is to say have ramifications ending with several points.
- the invention allows a better implementation of the moxibustion technique, on the one hand, in terms of comfort for the patient and, on the other hand, in terms of technicality for the practitioner.
- the invention allows a treatment allowing a wandering, as well as accessibility of several skin areas simultaneously.
- the practitioner is no longer required to be present at all times, because the risk of burns is eliminated and the energy sources used have sufficient autonomy for an overall duration of treatment.
- the punctured depth can also be chosen in complete freedom since the external energy source 2 does not present any risk of burning and that a possible inclination of the needle with said external energy source 2 towards the skin remains without result.
- the treatment of the hairy areas can also be carried out without prior preparation by shaving. This advantage allows in particular the application of acupuncture with moxa in veterinary treatments.
- the needle according to the invention, with its energy source is perfectly clean with regard to its use, namely releases no pollution and can be coupled, unlike the traditional technique, with the use of suction cups .
- the heating acupuncture needle according to the invention finds its application in other fields and, in a particularly interesting manner, in obstetrics and rheumatology. Indeed, in the field of obstetrics, the invention could allow a muscle relaxant supply of heat before and during work. In rheumatology, the invention is applicable for cold-related pathologies, such as stiff neck and lumbago, or even osteoarthritis. The same is true for gastroenterology and pneumology.
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DE69718036T DE69718036T2 (de) | 1996-10-22 | 1997-10-22 | Beheizbare akupunkturnadel |
AT97911316T ATE229789T1 (de) | 1996-10-22 | 1997-10-22 | Beheizbare akupunkturnadel |
EP97911316A EP0934049B1 (fr) | 1996-10-22 | 1997-10-22 | Aiguille d'acupuncture chauffante |
DK97911316T DK0934049T3 (da) | 1996-10-22 | 1997-10-22 | Opvarmende akupunkturnål |
US09/284,837 US6346103B1 (en) | 1996-10-22 | 1997-10-22 | Heating acupuncture needle |
HK00100857A HK1024403A1 (en) | 1996-10-22 | 2000-02-11 | Heating acupuncture needle |
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FR9613011A FR2754707B1 (fr) | 1996-10-22 | 1996-10-22 | Aiguille d'acupuncture chauffante |
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DK (1) | DK0934049T3 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2188916T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2754707B1 (fr) |
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DE69718036D1 (de) | 2003-01-30 |
HK1024403A1 (en) | 2000-10-13 |
EP0934049A1 (fr) | 1999-08-11 |
US6346103B1 (en) | 2002-02-12 |
ES2188916T3 (es) | 2003-07-01 |
FR2754707A1 (fr) | 1998-04-24 |
EP0934049B1 (fr) | 2002-12-18 |
DE69718036T2 (de) | 2003-11-13 |
FR2754707B1 (fr) | 1999-01-08 |
DK0934049T3 (da) | 2003-04-07 |
ATE229789T1 (de) | 2003-01-15 |
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