A therapeutic device having a first removable pack having a first temperature, a second removable pack having a second temperature, a flexible receptacle having a first compartment and a pocket. The first compartment of the flexible receptacle is configured to receive the first removable pack. The pocket is connected to the outer wall surface of the flexible receptacle and forms a second compartment configured to receive the second removable pack through a first opening of the pocket. The therapeutic device combines both hot and cold therapy to work simultaneously together. The application of both hot and cold to the site of an injury of a user stimulates blood circulation to an injured muscle with heat and reduces inflammation with cold to facilitate a faster and more efficient recovery process of the afflicted area.

A method in which a nerve associated with a spasticity in a limb of a patient may be identified. The cryogenic cooling needle may be inserted through a skin surface. The cryogenic cooling needle may be positioned to a target tissue such that the distal end of the cryogenic cooling needle is proximate to the nerve by bending the needle, wherein the needle has varying stiffness at a proximal portion and a distal portion. A treatment cycle may be delivered to a target tissue proximate to the nerve, the treatment cycle may comprise a cooling phase wherein cooling fluid flows into the lumen so that liquid from the cooling fluid flow vaporizes within the lumen to provide cooling to the nerve so as to treat spasticity.

Apparatus is provided for garments to relieve period pain. The apparatus presented comprises a garment, one or more sets of heating elements or fabric with heating fibers, a power source, and a controller. A user may use the apparatus to relieve period pain. The apparatus permits a user to provide long-lasting and durable relief of period pain, while attending to typical daily routines, without the need for medication, bulky heating devices, or inconvenience. The present invention solves problems with the currently available means and apparatuses of relieving pain from periods.

Disclosed herein is a method of alleviating symptoms of ocular surface discomfort, the method comprising: topically applying a cold slurry adjacent to a corneal limbus of an eye of a patient, wherein the cold slurry comprises water and a freezing point depressant, wherein the topical application of the cold slurry is configured to cause a degree of numbing of a cornea of the eye for a period of time, and wherein an ocular sensation of the eye is restored following the period of time.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a device for the reduction perceived pain in patients. Various embodiments comprise a flexible shell comprising a pliable material and a first non-planar surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The flexible shell defines an interior cavity located intermediate the first surface and the second surface and filled at least in part by a first substance. The first surface comprises a plurality of protrusions distributed therein and configured to be depressed into the skin of the patient. The pain reducing device may execute a cooling functionality upon being moved from a first position to a second position. When cooled and depressed against the patient's skin, the pain reducing device provides a sensory confusion sensation to the patient, thereby reducing perceived pain caused by a needle insertion.

The invention provides a cooling pad 110 for alleviation of pain or discomfort, especially in the perineum as a result of childbirth. The pad 110 has at least one chamber 116 containing a fluid (such as saline) for cooling. There is at least one aperture 126 for allowing passage of body fluid. The aperture 126 is located inboard of the chamber 116. Aperture 126 is formed in a web 124. Cooling pad 110 may be used alone or as part of an assembly, sandwiched between cover layer 130 and peel-off backing 132, and is intended to be placed in a freezer prior to use.

A method for anesthetizing a human patient undergoing surgery and/or pain block procedure, the method comprising sterilizing the patient's skin including a target region, the target region including a surgical site including the patient's spine; inserting at least one cryo-needle into a first tissue region, the cryo-needle having a distal end configured to cool surrounding patient tissue, the first tissue region comprising soft tissue superficial to the one or more vertebra and on a first lateral side of the patients spine; cooling the distal end of the cryo-needle to cause cooling of surrounding patient tissue thus inhibiting one or more sensory nerves in the surrounding patient tissue; thereafter, performing spinal surgery on the patient's spine at the surgical site; and, thereafter, performing an erector spinae plane block to further inhibit nerves post-operatively in the target region.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for cooling tissue comprising a tube having an inlet end and an outlet end opposite the inlet end and an interior traversing the length of the tube, the interior being a passageway for cooling fluid to circulate within the interior; wherein the tube is shaped to a contour of biological tissue of a patient. Other embodiments provide a method for cooling tissue comprising applying a tubular contact cooler to a patient's tissue configured to circulate a cooling fluid through the interior of the contact cooler; wherein the cooling fluid's temperature is below 14 Celsius and the contact cooler is shaped to a contour of tissue. Other embodiment provide a recirculating anesthetic cooling system for numbing a patient's intra-oral tissues comprising a contact cooler comprising a contact cooler inlet, a contact cooler outlet, a buccal portion, and a lingual portion, a fluid cooler comprising a fluid cooler outlet connected to the contact cooler inlet and a fluid cooler inlet connected to the contact cooler outlet, and a cooling fluid disposed throughout the contact cooler and the fluid cooler; wherein the cooling fluid is circulated from the contact cooler to the fluid cooler and the fluid cooler reduces the cooling fluid's temperature to a desired temperature.

A method in which a location is determined on the skin that is proximate to a sensory nerve that is associated with a painful condition. At least one needle of a cryogenic device is inserted into the location on the skin such that the needle is proximate to the sensory nerve. The device is activated such that the at least one needle creates a cooling zone about the sensory nerve, thereby eliminating or reducing severity of the painful condition.

The present disclosure provides a device for cooling a living tissue that solves severe patient's waiting and clinic work load due to time-consuming anesthesia required by conventional therapies and significantly reduces psychological burden and pain of the patient for ocular anesthesia.