ES2270732B1 - USE OF DRY AIR IN MACHINES FOR PRESOTHERAPY TREATMENTS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Use of dry air in machines for pressotherapy treatments in the form of an air stream without ambient humidity with a temperature range from -10ºC to 50ºC for the realization of thermotherapy and cryotherapy treatments.

Description

Use of dry air in machines for pressotherapy treatments

Technical field

The present invention relates, according to a first aspect, to the use of dry, cold or hot air in pressotherapy treatments such as lymphatic drainage.

Background of the invention

Pressotherapy is the therapeutic technique consisting of the use of different types of pressures applied by fluids to the surface of the organism with the purpose of achieving improvements in the circulatory systems and lymphatic; is based on the application of pressure, which produces a massage through pumping and pushing movements thus performing a lymphatic drainage, improving peripheral circulation and return. The pressotherapy treatment is applied by use of pneumatic devices over large areas of the body surface, helped by compressor motors. These Pneumatic accessories surround the customer adjusting to their contour. These accessories can be of the boot type (for treatments of legs and feet), of the abdomen type (for abdominal treatments and lumbar) and vest or arm type (for arm treatments, back and abdomen). Pressotherapy is a therapy widely used in the field of aesthetics and medicine for its great effectiveness in lipolytic treatments, analgesics, circulatory problems, lymphatic, and muscular (edemas and lympho-edemas). Significantly reduces cellulite and tones and regenerates skin improving its elasticity. In addition, it prevents the appearance of varicose veins during pregnancy. It is especially indicated in post-operative surgery treatments aesthetics and mammoplasty.

A large number of massage devices are known comprising a treatment accessory (boot, belt abdominal, etc.) intended to be arranged in contact with a part of a patient's body to perform on it a succession of local compressions that progress in the direction of lymphatic drainage to be performed. This accessory is usually composed of a plurality of juxtaposed inflatable cells that they are successively inflated and deflated according to a defined cycle. Reference will be made, for example, to the following patents that present some of such devices: FR patents No. 2,511,241, 2,405,708, US Patent No. 4,311,135, 3,167,067, GB Patent No. 2,062,235, 483,111, 2,077,108, patent DE 2,753,523. In these devices, the massage accessory surrounds the member to be treated and its inflatable cells are connected by a bundle of ducts to an air distribution installation comprising, especially, a rotary or divers distributor or a plurality of solenoid valves, this installation being able to deliver successively the pneumatic pressure towards each cell through the conduit with which it is associated.

On the other hand, there are other types of therapy also widespread in the field medical-aesthetic, thermotherapy and cryotherapy

Thermotherapy is a physiotherapy technique millenary based on the application of heat on the organism with therapeutic purposes The temperature rise causes a peripheral vasodilation, a deep circulatory stimulus, the activation of internal organs and muscle contraction. On The musculoskeletal system is indicated to treat bruises muscle and joint, arthritis, osteoarthritis. It is also a Therapy indicated in metabolic diseases such as obesity. its conventional application form is based on the use of electric currents (diathermy), hot gels, steam and sheets or cushions with electrical resistors.

Cryotherapy is a novel technique physiotherapy based on the application of cold on the body for therapeutic purposes. The cold stimulus subtracts heat from the organism, cooling it. The intensity of action will depend on different factors such as the thermal difference between the agent and the skin and how quickly it is applied. The faster and more cold, greater therapeutic effect. The localized and continuous application Cold keeps the muscle fiber in contraction. This process causes, among others, two obvious results, one lose weight and The other is a healing effect. It is proven that cold helps deflate, facilitates circulation and eliminates bruises. The effects that cryotherapy produces, in a short stimulus duration, cause as a first reaction a vasoconstriction with local temperature drop. If the stimulus is long duration other mechanisms are implemented, such as the increase in carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver and muscles, producing a muscular contraction In brief and repeated applications Increase muscle power. About the urinary tract, it will produce an increase in diuresis, improving the elimination of liquids Cryotherapy produces an increase in basal metabolism, this causes an increase in caloric intake especially indicated for lipolytic treatments.

This therapy is usually applied by cold gels, liquid nitrogen, CO2 liquid other liquids refrigerated

Each of the therapies requires in each of its variants a certain medium (gel, liquid, electricity, steam, gas) and a different device or device for application. This limits the application to a therapy by device, increasing treatment time and decreasing the effectiveness since in this way the therapies can only be apply individually, the application being impossible Simultaneous of the three therapies referenced.

Description of the invention

In general terms, the purpose of this invention in enabling the application in the same device and of Simultaneously the three therapies (pressotherapy, cryotherapy and thermotherapy) used in treatments medical-aesthetics to combat adiposities, decrease fluid retention, improve toning muscle, introduce active ingredients, and treatments analgesics, among others, allowing to apply a single therapy or combine several simultaneously to improve and increase results that could be obtained with a single therapy.

The great novelty in the application of these treatments is the use as a single medium the air to temperature controlled (cold or hot) and dry continuously in pressotherapy equipment.

The device consists of the team of pressotherapy, a cold and heat generating equipment that cools or heats a flow of air in a controlled way, and accessories for The application of therapies, boots, vests masks, etc. Each of them equipped with independent inflatable cells.

The pressure therapy equipment consists of a compressor motor governed by a control circuit. Said compressor motor is responsible for providing air pumping to, through pneumatic devices, perform a massage with the possibility of varying working pressures to, thus, be able to act differently when treating different situations (massages for lymphatic drainage , massages for circulatory problems, etc.). Safety measures include, in addition to the control of the pressure exerted by the processor itself, a mechanical exhaust pressure valve to avoid excessive
Pressure.

Application accessories are devices tires intended to provide massage in different areas bodily These devices are connected to the computer pressotherapy by hose type connectors, responsible for Conduct air pressure to perform the massage.

The pneumatic accessories are included in function of your final destination, with which we can talk about accessories boot or foot (those intended to perform leg and foot massages), abdomen accessories (those intended for massages in the abdominal and lumbar area) and arm or vest accessories (the intended to perform massage on arms, abdomen and back).

It is also possible to devise new exclusive accessories for specific massages (either facials or to perform very localized treatments, etc.).

The cold and heat generating equipment is a device capable of generating in a controlled manner a stream of dry air, in a temperature range from -10ºC to 50ºC. This rank of working temperatures is what enables the ability to this device to perform thermotherapy treatments and Cryotherapy easily and simply.

Preferably, the treatments of thermotherapy will be performed in a temperature range between 35ºC and 45ºC, while cryotherapy will be performed between -8ºC and 5ºC.

The heat and cold generating equipment is associated with specific application accessories inserted in Pressotherapy application accessories. This way you get to have a final team capable of applying therapies of pressotherapy, thermotherapy and cryotherapy simultaneously or combined. You can also create devices for direct and localized application of thermotherapy and cryotherapy by air flow for the application of new therapies.

The control of the pressotherapy equipment, thermotherapy and cryotherapy is exercised by a processor that, through a screen and a keyboard accessible to the user, provides the necessary information and the possibility of acting to modify the Necessary parameters for each treatment.

Description of the drawings

In order to illustrate how much so far we have exposed, is accompanied by the present specification of a sheet of drawings in which an example of embodiment of the invention, which in this case corresponds to a preferred embodiment of a pressure therapy device enabled for the use of dry, cold and hot air, and therefore  appropriate also for the execution of cryotherapy treatments and thermotherapy.

Figure 1 corresponds to a view of the pressure therapy device, thermotherapy and cryotherapy and one of Your possible application accessories.

Example Description

The device consists of a housing top (1) containing the electrical and mechanical components necessary for the pressotherapy device. The lower case (2) it contains the electrical and mechanical components necessary for the thermotherapy and cryotherapy device.

The hose connector (3) makes the connection of the air pressure conductive hoses (4) for perform massages until pneumatic accessory is reached (5) consisting of the illustrative example in integral pants.

The lower housing (2) has a connector of the thermotherapy or cryotherapy hose (6) that through its specific hose (7) conducts hot or cold air to the pneumatic accessory (5) of the pressotherapy equipment.

Claims (2)

1. Use of dry air in machines for pressotherapy treatments in the form of air flow without Ambient humidity with a temperature range from -10ºC up to 50ºC for thermotherapy treatments and cryotherapy 2. Use of dry air in machines for pressotherapy treatments according to the preceding claim characterized in that preferably, the thermotherapy treatments are carried out in a temperature range between 35 ° C and 45 ° C, while those of cryotherapy are carried out between -8 ° C and 5 ° C.