Device for Applying Algorithmic Afferent Modulation and Method of Use
First Claim
1. An algorithmic chiropractic instrument optimized to approximate a chiropractic afferent-work-algorithm for manipulative mechanoreceptor modulation capable ofa. producing a pre-stretch force and a power-stretch force that are directly and substantially additive;
- b. the said pre-stretch force is substantially proportional to a tissue like experience over the spine and amplifies tactile, visual, and audio feedback incorporating the patient tissue release response back to the practitioner; and
c. wherein the increases of said pre-stretch by said practitioner is compensated for by a counter-balancing safety limit drop off of said power-stretch.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a chiropractic instrument capable of achieving the benefits of algorithmic pre-stretch, power-stretch, and recoil and release in reciprocating therapy to human tissue. In particular, that application teaches a plunging-probing technique wherein a barrage of power-stretch impulses is added to a time-modulated ramp of increasing and decreasing stretches, while offering an inherent safety-limit which prevents, upon operator error force, beyond the max given on its label, while providing meaningful tactile feedback to the practitioner. The new idea yields tethered reproducible power-stretches which only occur concurrently with achieving precise, variable, and preset levels of tissue pre-stretch force.
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26 Claims
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1. An algorithmic chiropractic instrument optimized to approximate a chiropractic afferent-work-algorithm for manipulative mechanoreceptor modulation capable of
a. producing a pre-stretch force and a power-stretch force that are directly and substantially additive; -
b. the said pre-stretch force is substantially proportional to a tissue like experience over the spine and amplifies tactile, visual, and audio feedback incorporating the patient tissue release response back to the practitioner; and c. wherein the increases of said pre-stretch by said practitioner is compensated for by a counter-balancing safety limit drop off of said power-stretch. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for applying a chiropractic afferent-work-algorithm comprising:
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a. calibrating initial threshold for pre-stretch force on a reciprocating chiropractic instrument that would produce an amplified tactile feedback from said instrument; b. modulated probing of a patient with said reciprocating chiropractic instrument wherein said reciprocating chiropractic instrument contains a means of creating a patient-operator biofeedback loop; and c. triggering said reciprocating chiropractic instrument upon said patient whereby applying a systematic afferent stimulation via an algorithmic barrage of stretches wherein said barrage of stretches is an algorithmic applied force.
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23. An approximate chiropractic afferent-work-algorithm created by an algorithmic chiropractic instrument comprising:
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a. a smooth control work region with a slower rate of change with displacement at both the lowest and highest stretch levels, and b. a flattening curve peak work region due to algorithmic tethering of the solenoid force. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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