RU7005U1 - REFLEXOTHERAPY DEVICE - Google Patents

Description

DEVICE FOR REFLEXOTHERAPY.

The proposed device for reflexology, using modulated electromagnetic radiation of the infrared range with a wavelength of 740-2500 nm / modulated infrared radiation /, allows for various methods of reflex exposure to biologically active points / BAP / acupuncture channels.

The device is a medical diagnostic and is able to work in various modes. It makes it possible to carry out diagnostic studies on the basis of a modified Akabane test with a quantitative determination of the level of energy activity of acupuncture channels by exposure to BAT test pulses, allows for pulse diagnostics using special computer programs based on analysis of changes in R - R intervals, as well as an effective therapeutic non-invasive the impact associated with the correction of the energy state of acupuncture channels by modulated IR and irradiance.

Exposure to modulated infrared radiation can be used in all cases where there are indications for reflexology. It replaces the action of the needle on both corporal and auricular points. At present, acupuncture is used in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases with hundreds of diagnoses and pathologies, and the proposed device can be widely used in diagnostic and medical practice.

A device for reflexology is known, in which, using the effect of an IR LED on biologically active points, pain syndromes are treated / T.P. Ioffe, G.I. Shur, Technical aspects of reflexology and diagnostic system, collection of scientific papers, Izv. KSU Kalinin, 1984, pp. 22-23 /. The device for reflexology contains the following nodes:

- LED AL 107 B, enclosed in a housing convenient for mounting the emitter on the patient’s body;

- a rectangular pulse generator with an adjustable repetition rate in the range from 5 to 200 Hz;

-modulator-current amplifier, included in the power supply circuit of the LED;

- a timer that provides adjustment of the duration of exposure to the BAP in the range from 10 seconds to 2 minutes;

-Photodiode with photocurrent indication for calibrating the device by radiation power;

-Autonomous power supply.

The device solves the problem of treating pain syndromes, such as osteochondrosis of various etiologies, neuralgia, phantom pains, etc.

The objective of the utility model is to develop a schematic solution of a device that allows, using reflexology techniques and using the effect on biologically active points / BAP / modulated infrared / thermal / radiation, to diagnose the state of the human body using a quantitative assessment of the level of activity of acupuncture channels and, if necessary, conduct treatment correction of their energy.

The problem is solved by the fact that the proposed device for reflexology, which contains the following series-connected blocks:

-block information;

-analog-digital converter of the signal coming from the information acquisition unit;

adaptive notch filter;

signal differentiator;

peak detector;

the output of the latter is connected to the impact pulse shaper, the outputs of which are connected to the IR impact emitter and through a pulse counter with memory.

To output information on the duration of R - R intervals to a computer for the purpose of pulse diagnostics, the device additionally contains a cardiocycle duration meter connected in series, an interface pulse generator and an IR emitter of the interface, while the output of the peak detector is connected to the input of the cardiocycle duration meter, and the output of the IR emitter The interface is connected to an infrared communication modem.

The IR communication modem, in turn, contains an IR radiation receiver, an amplifier, and a pulse shaper.

The device can be performed both on the basis of discrete elements in the form of separate blocks, and on the basis of a microprocessor.

In the latter case, the microprocessor at the software level implements analog-to-digital conversion of the input from the pickup unit

signal information, filtering it, differentiating and extracting the signal with a maximum amplitude, generating strobe pulses in time, synchronous with the maximum signal amplitude coming from the information pickup unit, characteristic of certain phases of the cardiocycle, measuring the cardiocycle duration and generating the interface pulses, while the microprocessor input is connected with the output of the information pickup unit, and the microprocessor outputs are connected to the IR emitter of the interface and through the impact pulse shaper unit with And K-emitter exposure.

Suggested Drawings / Figs. 1-3 / explain the proposed device.

Figure 1 presents a block diagram of the proposed device without a communication interface with a computer; figure 2 - device, which includes additional units for transmitting information to a computer; Fig. 3 schematically shows a block diagram of an IR communication modem.

The proposed device contains serially connected blocks; heart rate information acquisition unit / 1 /, analog-to-digital signal converter 121, adaptive notch filter / 3 /, signal differentiator / 4 /, peak detector / 5 /, impact pulse shaper / 6 /, IR emitter of exposure pulses to BAT 171 , pulse counter during testing / 8 / and memory / 9 /.

To transmit information to a computer, the device provides an infrared communication channel, which consists of a unit for measuring the duration of cardio intervals / 10 /, an information pulse generator for the interface / 11 /, and an infrared emitter / 12 /.

The IR communication modem consists of an IR receiver / 13 /, a signal amplifier / 14 /, a pulse shaper / 15 /, the output of which is connected to one of the free ports on the computer / com. 1 or com. 21, and does not contain an autonomous power source.

The device operates as follows.

The analog signal coming from the information pickup unit / 1 / is converted into a digital code in an analog-to-digital converter 121 and then a signal is selected from the noise using a programmable adaptive notch filter / 3 /, then the signal is differentiated in the differentiator / 4 / and the first the mathematical derivative, on the basis of which, using the digital amplitude / peak / detector / 5 /, the maximum amplitude of the tooth fragment R / is extracted during synchronization through an ECG / or the tops of the pulse wave / when synchronizing the device through the heart rate sensor /. At the same time, a strobe pulse is generated synchronously in time by the unit, on the basis of which a test pulse is generated in the impact pulse shaper block / 6 /, which is transmitted to the IR emitter / 7 /, the necessary amplitude, the shape and duration of which is set at the program level depending on the selected mode. The number of transmitted pulses is counted by the counter / 8 / with the values stored in the memory / 9 /.

In a similar way, the BAT is exposed to modulated infrared radiation in a pulsed mode (for example, to a beat with a pulse wave). Such a reference in time to a pulse wave significantly increases the accuracy of diagnostics during testing and efficiency

effects during correction.

At the same time, based on the analysis of the intervals between the R-R teeth during the analysis of the ECG or the maximum of the pulse wave, pulse diagnostics is possible, which is carried out using a special computer program. In this case, information about the R-R intervals is transmitted to the computer via the infrared communication modem.

Through the IR communication modem, the test results are also transmitted via 24 channels to the computer.

Below are several modes of operation of the proposed device:

Test mode energy pulses.

Information about the rhythm of heartbeats, for example, through ECG electrodes / 16 /, or through a pulse wave sensor / 17 /, enters the reflexotherapy device into the information pickup unit / 1 /, which supports the operation of the respective sensors. Next, the analog signal is converted to digital in the block of the analog-to-digital converter 121. To reduce interference when collecting information, a digital adaptive notch filter / 3 / and a signal differentiator / 4 / are used, which change their characteristics at the program level depending on the selected sensor / ECG or pulse/. Using the peak detector / 5 /, the maximum amplitude fragment of the signal is extracted (for example, the peak of the R wave during ECG recording), to which a gating pulse is generated. Next, the strobe signal enters the impact pulse shaper / 6 /, which at the program level forms the duration of the acting pulse / its well /, as well as the waveform and its

amplitude, discrete. The load of the impact pulse shaper block / 6 / is a special powerful IR LED / 7 /. which sends this energy pulse directly to the tested BAP. In this case, the pulse counter / 8 / counts the number of exposure pulses before the first pain. The number of such pulses for each of 24 test points according to the number of main channels for 50 patients is stored in non-volatile memory / 9 /. Thus, in this model of the device, accurate time synchronization with a certain phase of the cardiac cycle is carried out.

In addition, for the convenience of the user, the device implements a manual (approximate) mode for setting the rhythm of the testing pulses. To do this, for example, with a pulse wave during palpation of the patient or on the basis of an auscultatory assessment, a special button on the device is pressed with registration of at least 5 cardiocycles. The processor finds the arithmetic mean value of the cardiocycle and generates test pulses in this rhythm.

Pulse diagnostics mode.

In this mode, the device does not have any energetic effects on the patient, and on the base computer the rhythm of the heartbeats is analyzed using a special computer program

In this case, information about the rhythm of the heart coming from the sensors / 16 / or / 17 / is processed sequentially in blocks 1-5. From the peak detector / 5 /, the strobe pulses enter the block / 10 /, where the duration of the cardiocycles is measured, for example, by the duration of the R-R intervals. From here the information goes to the pulse shaper.

interface / 11 /, the load of which is an infrared emitter / 12 /. The pulse generator of the interface in the mode of pulse diagnostics and data transmission on the test results works in the standard of the V.24 exchange protocol and transmits information on 256 levels of duration of the R - R interval through an 8-bit transmission. Similarly, the pulse shaper transmits information about the number of testing pulses by 24 points for each Akabane test.

The treatment regimen.

In this case, a therapeutic effect that allows you to change the energy potential of a particular channel is carried out by exposure to its BAT with modulated IR radiation at the resonant frequencies for the channel / mainly 26-ZOHz, in the feedback function, until the first pain. Both constant frequency-modulated infrared radiation can be used, as well as radiation additionally modulated in amplitude in synchronism with heartbeats. In the first case, blocks 1-5 are not involved, the impact pulse shaper / 6 / at the software level synthesizes a frequency-modulated signal with a constant amplitude. In the second case, blocks 1-5 control the heart rhythm, and the impact pulse shaper / 6 /, in addition to frequency modulation, also performs amplitude signal processing, for example, in the form of a pulse wave, which, according to our observations, sharply enhances the effect. In the first case, the pulse counter counts the time of exposure to the BAP, and in the second, the number of exposure pulses.

The pulse diagnostics mode can be implemented both separately and during testing or medical treatment, which increases the diagnostic capabilities of the device, makes it possible to monitor the course of treatment in real time and creates an additional service for the user.

Claims (4)

1. A device for reflexology containing a modulated pulse generator and an infrared emitter, characterized in that it contains a series-connected information pickup unit (1), an analog-to-digital signal converter (2), an adaptive notch filter (3), a signal differentiator ( 4), a peak detector (5), the output of the latter is connected to an impact pulse shaper (6), the outputs of which are connected to an infrared impact emitter (7) and through an impact pulse counter (8) with memory (9).  2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a cardiocycle duration meter (10) connected in series, an interface pulse generator (11) and an infrared interface emitter (12) that is connected to an IR communication modem for inputting information into a computer, while the input of the cardiocycle duration meter (10) is connected to the output of the peak detector (5).  3. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that the IR communication modem comprises an infrared radiation receiver (13), a signal amplifier (14) and a pulse shaper (15). 4. The device according to claim 3, characterized in that it is based on a microprocessor, which at the software level implements analog-to-digital conversion of the signal coming from the data acquisition unit, filtering it, differentiating and isolating the signal with a maximum amplitude, generating gating pulses in time synchronous to the maximum amplitude signal coming from the information pickup unit, characteristic of certain phases of the cardiocycle, measuring the duration of the cardiocycle and the formation of interface pulses, when ohm input of the microprocessor is connected to the output of the information reading and the outputs of the microprocessor are connected to the IR transmitter and interface unit via the PFN effects (6) - with an IR-emitter.