MASSAGE APPLIANCE Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: medical equipment and can be used as a medical appliance for effective massage, as well as physiotherapeutic and prophylactic- sanitary procedures. SUBSTANCE: to ensure the intensity of action on the root innervations with expansion of methods of massage actions, the needle-shaped members are made in the form of tight circular cones with a spherical tip the form of right circular cones with a spherical tip that are conjugate to each other by a right circular cylinder; the relationship between the diameter of the right circular cylinder and the edge radius of the vertex of the right circular cone with a spherical tip is selected to be multiple of five. To enhance the effectiveness of massage actions, the appliance is mainly made of antistatic materials selected from the following group: hard rubber, wood, impact-strong polystyrene with antistatic additives or coated with an antistatic paint-and-varnish compound. The right circular cylinder has a rough surface. The right circular cones have a mirror-finished surface. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 1 dwg, 1 tbl