Method for treating circulatory disorders with acoustic waves

• US 6,500,134 B1
• Filed: 07/19/2000
• Issued: 12/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alphonse Cassone
• Original Assignee: Alphonse Cassone
• Inventors: Cassone, Alphonse
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Koo, Benjamin K.
• Application Number:
  US09/619,358
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• US Class Current: 601/47
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0236 using sonic waves, e.g. using loudspeakers
• 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

Abstract

A method for treating circulatory disorders by exposing the sufferer to acoustic waves from a transducer immersed in liquid. The person is preferably placed between one and twenty feet from the wave source, and is preferably exposed to waves at a frequency of about 600 Hertz for approximately twenty five minutes.

Claims

1. A method for treating circulatory disorders comprising the steps of:

providing a low frequency sonic transducer;

immersing said low frequency sonic transducer in a liquid-containing container;

positioning a person having a circulatory disorder a therapeutically beneficial distance from said container;

wherein said therapeutically beneficial distance is approximately one foot from said container; and

exposing said person for a therapeutically beneficial period of time to acoustic waves from said low frequency sonic transducer at a therapeutically beneficial frequency;

wherein said therapeutically beneficial frequency is between approximately four hundred and eight hundred Hertz.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said therapeutically beneficial distance is approximately five feet from said container.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said therapeutically beneficial distance is approximately ten feet from said container.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said therapeutically beneficial distance is approximately twenty feet from said container.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said therapeutically beneficial period of time is between approximately two seconds and one hour.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said therapeutically beneficial period of time is between approximately fifteen minutes and forty-five minutes.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said therapeutically beneficial period of time is between approximately twenty minutes and thirty minutes.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein said therapeutically beneficial period of time is approximately twenty-five minutes.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said therapeutically beneficial frequency is between approximately one and one thousand Hertz.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said therapeutically beneficial frequency is approximately 600 Hertz.

11. A method for treating circulatory disorders comprising the steps of:

providing a low frequency sonic transducer;

immersing said low frequency sonic transducer in a liquid-containing container;

positioning a person having a circulatory disorder approximately one foot from said container; and

exposing said person for between approximately fifteen minutes and forty-five minutes to acoustic waves from said low frequency sonic transducer at approximately six hundred Hertz.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said person has atherosclerosis.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein said person has coronary artery disease.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein said person has ischemic heart disease.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein said person has angina pectoris.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein said person has impotence.