Patent ID: 8292796
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for treating pain or chronic pain comprising: a. a frame with a continuous side wall and a central passageway extending there through; b. a bar disposed in the central passageway, extending from a first side of the continuous side wall to a second side of the continuous side wall; c. four pairs of identical planar pole magnets embedded in the frame, and wherein each pair of identical planar pole magnets comprises two magnets which can have a planar face disposed adjacent the other and separated by less than 1 inch and wherein the first pair can be embedded opposite a second pair, and a third pair can be embedded opposite a fourth pair, and the four pairs are oriented to form a low gauss magnetic field with two intersecting donut shapes; and d. a central magnet nonremovably encircling the bar and disposed at the intersection of the low gauss magnetic field with two intersecting donut shapes wherein a central magnet can be adapted for forming a substantially focused field, wherein the substantially focused field provides therapeutic relief of pain and swelling to an arm or leg placed on the bar disposed in the central passageway.