A thermal device includes a first thermal unit, a second thermal unit, and device electronics. The first thermal unit includes a first plurality of semiconductor elements sandwiched between first and second thermal unit substrates. The first thermal unit substrate exchanges heat with a user. The second thermal unit includes a second plurality of semiconductor elements sandwiched between third and fourth thermal unit substrates. The third thermal unit substrate exchanges heat with the user. The device electronics are coupled to the first thermal unit and the second thermal unit. The device electronics operate the first thermal unit in a heating state in which the first thermal unit transfers heat to the user via the first thermal unit substrate. The device electronics operate the second thermal unit in a cooling state in which the second thermal unit removes heat from the user via the third thermal unit substrate.

A temperature controlled blanket for providing dual warming and cooling zones. The temperature controlled blanket comprises a first layer of material, a second layer of material, and a seam, wherein the seam is disposed along a longitudinal axis of each layer of material, such that the seam defines a first portion and a second portion of the blanket. The first portion and the second portion each contain a panel comprising heating and cooling elements disposed between the first layer of material and second layer of material. The blanket further comprises at least one thermostat operably connected to each panel of the first portion and the second portion and a power source, wherein the at least one thermostat individually controls the heating and cooling elements of each panel. In an alternative embodiment, the first portion and the second portion of the second layer of material are made of two differing fabrics.

In combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field, treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. A magnetic field generating device is placed proximate to a body region of the patient. The magnetic field generating device generates a time-varying magnetic field with a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.5 to 7 Tesla. The time-varying magnetic field is applied to the body region of the patient in order to cause a contraction of a muscle within the body region. A second therapy may be used by applying one or more of optical waves, radio frequency waves, mechanical waves, negative or positive pressure or heat to the body region of the patient.

A method for an eye treatment includes the steps of: providing guide elements made on the specific sites of a subject which comprise (1) a site that intersects a perpendicular line of medial malleolus and an extension line of medial margin on OS metatasale primam 1 and 2, (2) a pupil of a left or right eye, (3) ST 36 point of a left or right leg, and (4) SP point; and controlling a temperature of the guide elements to be a range from 40 to 50?5? C., thereby applying the thermal stimulus to the respective specific sites to increase a blood flow by 60% or more and promote secretion of a growth hormone in the subject.

A cooling tourniquet system (100) includes a cooling component (110) with a tourniquet (112) at a proximal end and a control component (130). The cooling component includes a cooling pad (120) configured to be wrapped about an extremity, and a cover (111) that wraps around the cooling pad. An inner surface of the cooling pad includes one or more sensors for detecting the temperature of the extremity. The tourniquet is configured to be applied to the extremity to stop blood flow distally from the tourniquet. The control component receives temperature data from the sensors, and controls the cooling pad based on the received data rapidly cooling the extremity at depth, without causing frostbite tissue damage. In one embodiment the control component circulates a chilled fluid with a time-varying temperature profile through passages in the cooling pad. In an embodiment the cover includes an air bladder that holds the cooling pad in contact against the extremity.

Aspects of the present disclose related to a system. The system includes a warming device having at least a first zone and a second zone and a sensor. The system also includes a controller that includes one or more processor circuits configured to receive a first sensor reading from the sensor corresponding to a first zone, wherein the first sensor reading corresponds to a first heat transfer rate. The one or more processor circuits are configured to determine whether the sensor reading is sufficient and increase a first heat transfer rate to a second heat transfer rate in the first zone in response to the sensor reading being insufficient.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a convective blanket that includes an air permeable upper sheet having a periphery. The convective blanket includes a lower sheet bonded to the upper sheet with a peripheral seal proximate to the periphery of the upper sheet to form an interior space therein between the upper and lower sheets. The convective blanket includes a wing portion partially surrounded by a portion of the peripheral seal and a body portion. Additional aspects relate to a system including the convective blanket and a method that uses the convective blanket.

Devices and methods for providing therapeutic heating are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system includes a device body configured to provide heat to a portion of skin. The device body also includes a low-level heating region and a high-level heating area. The low-level heating region provides a continuous amount of heat at a first temperature, and the high-level heating area provides an intermittent amount of heat at a second temperature greater than the first temperature.

A self-heating warming blanket includes a pliable outer shell forming a liquid impermeable enclosure. A heat generation layer disposed inside the enclosure has a plurality of liquid permeable heater compartments containing an exothermic reactant. The blanket also has a heater activation system including a sealed bladder containing an activator liquid inside the enclosure. An activation strip extends from outside the outer shell into the enclosure. One segment of the strip is an unsealing segment connected to the bladder. Another segment of the strip is a handle segment outside the outer shell. Pulling on the handle segment opens the bladder and releases the activator liquid into the enclosure where at least a portion of it permeates at least one heater compartment and combines with the exothermic reactant contained therein to initiate an exothermic chemical reaction that heats the warming blanket.

A system and method for portably delivering a therapeutic dose of heat to the skin to relieve pain, reduce accommodation of thermal nerve receptors, promote healing, and deliver transcutaneous medications. The heating device is user programmable or preprogrammed to deliver according to a variety of cycles, patterns and algorithms. The cycles, patterns, and algorithms of the heat are programmable parameters, are under the user's control, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the device. The heating algorithms are designed to interact with an individual user's thermal nerve receptors and other tissue characteristics and to reduce the tendency of the receptors to accommodate to the external stimuli with back pain, muscular pain, dysmenorrhea, headaches, fibromyalgia, post-herpetic neuralgia, nerve injuries and neuropathies, and sprains and strain. The device can also be used in conjunction with existing medical devices such as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators (TENS) to increase the effectiveness of TENS devices.