Patent ID: 8639360

Claim:
A hand-held internal therapeutic massager device for manually providing direct pressure to a localized area of myofascial tissue, the hand-held internal therapeutic massager device comprising: a rod that is fabricated from a non-electrically conductive material, the rod having a first portion that defines a curve and a second portion that is substantially straight, wherein the rod has a diameter that is between three eighths of an inch and one half of an inch; a handle located on the second portion of the rod; a pressure applicator located on the first portion of the rod, wherein the pressure applicator is between nine-sixteenths of an inch and one and one quarter inches in diameter and is adapted to be inserted into a patient's body for engagement with the localized area of myofascial tissue; a stop that is slidably disposed on the rod to adjust an insertion depth of the pressure applicator with respect to the patient's body, the stop having an opening that extends through the stop and a surface that extends outward from the opening, wherein the rod passes through the opening and the stop is engageable with an external surface of the patient's body; and a pressure sensing assembly for providing quantitative feedback regarding an amount of pressure applied to the localized area of myofascial tissue by the pressure applicator.