Devices and Methods for Treatment and Promotion of Healing of Injured Sites

• US 20160095789A1
• Filed: 10/05/2015
• Published: 04/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MMJ Labs, Inc., MMJ Labs, LLC
• Original Assignee: MMJ Labs, LLC
• Inventors: Baxter, Amy L., Calderon, Louis A.
• Application Number:
  US14/874,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20160095789A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/00 Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human body heating or cooling means in connection with bedsteads or mattresses A47C21/00 ; massage, therapeutic baths A61H; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields or ultrasound A61N; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0207 heated
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0214 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1635 Hand or arm, e.g. handle hand-held, A61H2201/0153; fore-arm support, A61H2003/006
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/165 Wearable interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/02 with electric or magnetic drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2007/0017 Wound healing
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/00 Ultrasound therapy lithotripsy A61B17/22, A61B17/225; massage using supersonic vibration A61H23/00 ; using ultrasound for introducing media into the body A61M37/0092
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0057 Means for physically limiting movements of body parts A63B23/0211 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0062 Leg restraining devices

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a device comprising a casing; at least one vibratory source; at least one power source; elements to actuate the vibratory source; electrical communication between the vibratory source, the power source, and other elements; and an optional thermal element for modulating the temperature of a contacted area of a surface. Also disclosed herein are methods for using the device.

Claims

1. A method for increasing healing in a site of injury in a subject, comprising contacting a vibratory device at or adjacent to an injured site, initiating vibration by the device, optionally providing a thermal effect simultaneously with the vibration, and enhancing the healing in the site of injury.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the injured site is a wound or burn.

3. A method for treating an injured site of a subject, comprising contacting a vibratory device disclosed herein at the injured site;

providing vibration by the device in an intermittent or continuous vibration, optionally applying a thermal effect simultaneously with the vibration, and vibrating for a sufficient time to treat the injured site.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising, after contact at the injured site, moving the vibratory device to a different site on or adjacent to the injured site, and initiating vibration at for a time sufficient to treat the injured site;

and optionally applying a thermal effect simultaneously to the injured site.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the injured site is a burn or a wound.

6. A kit comprising a vibratory device comprising a casing containing at least a vibratory motor and a power source;

a thermal element, and instructions for use of the device and thermal element for treatment of a human or animal.