Patent ID: 6461288
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
A method for altering the charge distribution on living membranes in order to reduce pain, reduce and reverse swelling and improve wound healing rate, of the type following surgery, the method comprising the following steps:a. providing an apparatus which comprises four magnetic bodies of alternating polarity wherein the shape of the bodies forms at least one cone with a vertex of the cone lying in a perpendicular axis of a circular directrix of the cone; b. providing a containment means for housing the apparatus; c. placing the apparatus adjacent the living membrane whose charge distribution is to be altered such that the vertex of the cone shaped magnetic bodies are tilted toward or away from a midline of the living membranes such that vertix migration toward the midline will vary the field gradient; d. maintaining said apparatus adjacent said living membranes until the charge distribution of the living membrane has been sufficiently altered to reduce pain, reduce and reverse swelling or improve the healing rate of the wound.