SELF-CONTAINED INTERNAL HYDROTHERAPY APPARATUS

• US 3,678,932 A
• Filed: 03/06/1970
• Issued: 07/25/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rose Marie Hudson
• Original Assignee: Rose Marie Hudson
• Inventors: Hudson, Rose Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaudet, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yasko, J.
• Application Number:
  US05/017,074
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 128/227,228,229,230,292,376,33 269/322-328 4/7,72,83,94,174,209,222
• US Class Current: 604/259
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0157 portable
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1604 Head
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1623 Back
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/164 Feet or leg, e.g. pedal
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/086 Buttocks
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/087 Genitals
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/00 Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms apparatus for passive exercising A61H1/00; generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations in general B06B
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/00 Baths for specific parts of the body electric circuits therefor A61H33/005; specific components therefor A61H33/60
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 9/00 Pneumatic or hydraulic massage
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3653 by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0202 with electronic control means or interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0208 before use
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/022 Volume; Flow rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0241 the liquid being supplied by gravity
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body A61M25/00 takes precedence ; introducing or retaining ophthalmic products into the ocular cavities A61F9/0008
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/00 Other apparatus for introducing media into the body for reproduction or fertilisation A61B17/425; apparatus for iontophoresis or cataphoresis A61N1/30; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin salt baths A61H33/04

Abstract

A self-contained internal hydrotherapy apparatus for treatment of human patients comprising a mobile cabinet having a generally planar top surface designed to accommodate a reclining patient, a treatment system capable of infusing a desired treating solution into the body orifices and additionally externally cleansing the rectal and genital areas of the patients body, a self-contained waste disposal system, a self-contained fresh water system and an internal electrical system. The applicator elements of the treatment system are removable from the cabinet for treatment of patients confined in bed.

Claims

1. A self-contained internal hydrotherapy apparatus comprising a mobile cabinet having a top surface designed to accomodate a human patient'"'"''"'"'s body in reclining position with the knees upraised, said surface having a portion designed to support the trunk and head of said patient'"'"''"'"'s body and being angularly adjustable from horizontal through an angle of about 30*, a removable treatment console located on the top surface of the cabinet proximate to said angularly adjustable portion of said surface, said console having two horizontally spaced surfaces designed to support the buttocks and upper thighs of a reclining patient, said console being contained on a detachable segment of the cabinet surface which is removable from the cabinet top for placement on an auxiliary surface whereupon treatment of a patient is desired, said cabinet further containing (a) a patient treatment system comprising a treatment tank mounted above the top surface of the cabinet and being vertically adjustable with relation to said cabinet, a treatment nozzle positioned in the console for insertion into the orifices of the patient'"'"''"'"'s lower body for infusion of solution from said treatment tank, and flexible connective conduit means for fluid flow between said tank and said treatment nozzle, and (b) a waste disposal system comprising a waste collection tank positioned inside the cabinet, a treatment receptacle located in the lower portion of the treatment console to collect waste discharged from the patient during treatment and flexible connective conduit means between said treatment receptacle and said waste collection tank, said flexible connective conduit means for fluid flow between said tank and said treatment nozzle and said flexible connective conduit means between said treatment receptacle and said waste collection tank each having excess length normally stored in said cabinet sufficient to allow both conduit means to be extended to permit removal of the console from the cabinet and placement upon the auxiliary surface.

2. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising lavage means positioned in said console to wash the rectal and genital areas of the patient'"'"''"'"'s body.

3. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a self contained fresh water system, and means to flush collected waste material from said treatment receptacle to said waste collection tank with fresh water, from said fresh water system.

4. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus accoRding to claim 3, further comprising means positioned between the treatment receptacle and the waste collection tank to separate air from solid and liquid waste material collected in said treatment receptacle, and means to deodorize said separated air and discharge the deodorized air into the atmosphere.

5. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus according to claim 4 further comprising means to control the temperature of the water stored in said water storage tank, and remote control means to regulate the flow of water from said storage tank to the said lavage means, said flushing means and to said treatment tank.

6. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus according to claim 5 further comprising an electrical vibrator contiguous with the body trunk support portion of said cabinet top.

7. An internal hydrotherapy apparatus according to claim 3 further comprising remote control means to regulate the flow of fresh water between said storage tank and said lavage means, said flush means, and said treatment tank, and remote control means to regulate the flow of treating solution from said treatment tank to said treatment nozzle, each of said control means being attached to the apparatus by a flexible cable of sufficient length to allow use of the control means by a patient being treated by the apparatus on an auxiliary surface.