APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPINAL STIMULATION Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61N5/06 A61N1/32 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medical equipment and medicine, particularly to physiotherapeutic apparatuses in neurosurgery applicable for treating traumatic and degenerative spinal injuries, namely for stimulation of reparative processes within the injury. An apparatus comprises coaxial cylindrical extended light guide with a core, optical, protective coats, catheter tube and second tube inserted in each other from the central longitudinal axis to the periphery. The light guide has terminals on electromagnetic emitters and optical windows. The latter are located near a distal end of the light guide taking up an area thereon matched with that of the spinal injury and limited thereby. The catheter tube has a terminal on an electric signal source and an electrode. The second tube is arranged coaxially to the catheter tube telescoped and enclosing the catheter tube with the light guide and has a terminal to the electrical signal source and the electrode. The optical windows are formed in the form of sections circulating along the light guide, not covered by the protective and optical coats, and covered with an optical illuminating coating transmitting electromagnetic emission of infrared, red, green and blue emissions. A method is implemented by placing the declared apparatus in an epidural space on dura mater. The exposure is ensured by pulse current and low-intensity electromagnetic emission in sessions of the length of 1-10 min every 4-12 hours. For the first 3-5 days, the spinal section above and below the injury are exposed to infrared and blue emission directly on the injury, and then for 7-8 days - to red emission. The course is completed by the exposure to green emission. The pulse current exposure is started together with the exposure to red emission and terminated with the therapeutic course.

EFFECT: group of inventions provides higher effectiveness and issue of the stimulation.

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