Patent ID: 8079968

Claim:
A non-invasive method of using a percussion device for treating a cardiac related ailment causing a state of low arterial blood flow within the thoracic cavity, comprising the steps of a) providing a percussion device with a contact interface enabling engagement of at least a pair of contact nodes spaced to provide simultaneous seating to opposing sides of a bony structure upon the thoracic cavity of a human adult, b) simultaneously engaging said at least a pair of contact nodes to opposing sides of a bony structure upon the thoracic cavity of a patient suffering from a cardiac related ailment causing a state of low arterial blood flow within the thoracic cavity, and c) applying mechanical percussion via said at least a pair of contact nodes simultaneously engaged to said opposing sides of a bony structure upon the thoracic cavity of said patient at a frequency between 1-1000 Hz, and a stroke length in the range of 0.1 mm-10 mm at any time during step 1 (b), whereby said applying mechanical percussion via said at least a pair of contact nodes simultaneously engaged to said opposing sides of a bony structure upon the thoracic cavity enables optimized localized acoustic transmission to the heart and coronary arteries thereupon in view to remediation of said cardiac related ailment causing said state of low arterial blood flow within said thoracic cavity of said patient.