A method of treating red blood cells of a human patient has the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves and subjecting a vascular system containing red blood cells and surrounding muscle tissue peripherally through an extremity of a patient to the acoustic shock waves by stimulating the extremity wherein the extremity is positioned within a path of the emitted shock waves and away from a geometric focal volume or point of the emitted shock waves. The methods also treat muscle tissue of aging patients, from muscle regeneration or athletes for legal performance enhancement without drugs.

A method of treating red blood cells of a human patient has the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves and subjecting a vascular system containing red blood cells and surrounding muscle tissue peripherally through an extremity of a patient to the acoustic shock waves by stimulating the extremity wherein the extremity is positioned within a path of the emitted shock waves and away from a geometric focal volume or point of the emitted shock waves. The methods also treat muscle tissue of aging patients, from muscle regeneration or athletes for legal performance enhancement without drugs.

A therapeutic massage system is provided. The system is characterized by a controllable compressed air delivery system and a cushion adapted for operative union with a portion of the air delivery system. The cushion includes a support pad and a therapy pad, the support pad having head and vertebral column supporting portions. The support pad vertebral column supporting portion is characterized by longitudinally extending compartments containing filler material. A central compartment of compartments of the support vertebral column supporting portion having a primary region traversing an axial centerline of said cushion and secondary regions spaced apart from said primary central region. The therapy pad overlays and is affixed to the vertebral column supporting portion of the support pad, the therapy pad including a plurality of fluid fillable channels for receiving a vertebral column wherein select fluid fillable channels of the plurality of fluid fillable channels of the therapy pad are fillable via programmed actuation of an actuatable element of the air delivery system. Filler material of the compartments of the support vertebral column supporting portion are responsive to receipt of body weight upon the cushion and select filling of the plurality of fluid fillable channels of the therapy pad, filler material of the regions of the central compartment being passable throughout segments of same in response to receipt of body weight upon the cushion and select filling of the plurality of fluid fillable channels of the therapy pad.

A robotic massage machine that includes at least one movable robotic arm having a first end effector, a processor that controls the movable robotic arm, a memory, a first body form having at least a first anatomical calibration point, a preprogrammed initial massage path based on the first body form, and a second body form having at least a first anatomical calibration point located in an analogous anatomical location as the first anatomical calibration point of the first body form. The processor is programmed to morph the initial massage path to calculate a calibrated massage path based on the second body form.

The device and methods disclosed herein allow an individual to create and sustain a differential stretch to the anterior muscles and ligaments of the torso, hips and legs. The device includes a base frame, a vertical member secured to the base frame, a rotational lift lever secured to the vertical member at a pivot point, a lower extremity elevation member secured to the rotational lift lever, and at least one lower extremity attachment device secured to the lower extremity elevation member. In use, the device lifts an individual's legs above the ground, while the person is lying face down, so as to create a stretch in the anterior muscles, fascia, or ligaments. The device has various planes of rotation, allowing for differential stretching in various quadrants of the torso. The device is adjustable in height as well as displacement along a track within the base to accommodate different body types.

A cervical traction assembly for use with a patient support apparatus includes an adjustment carriage track member including a connecting bracket assembly that releasably connects to a mount support member of the patient support apparatus. The adjustment track member includes a track body including a pair of opposing sidewalls that are spaced-apart from each other to define an elongated channel therebetween. Each sidewall includes a guide track that extends along a length of the respective sidewall. A rope angle adjustment carriage is located within the channel. The rope angle adjustment carriage includes a first track engagement member that is received by one of the guide tracks of one of the sidewalls and a second track engagement member that is received by another of the guide tracks of another of the sidewalls. The first track engagement member has a locked configuration that inhibits movement of the rope angle adjustment carriage.

The present invention relates to therapeutic body massage devices, and more particularly, to an extendable and retractable massage device which is particularly effective in relieving tender and painful connective tissue and muscular conditions, including but not limited to trigger points. The present invention is directed to an appliance having an adjustable shaft that can access all points on both sides of the body and that allows an individual to place a pressure accessory element of the appliance between the body and a flat surface to apply sustained pressure to a treatment site with minimal effort without taxing other parts of the body and without the pressure accessory element dislodging from the treatment site. The present invention further provides a massage system and a method of self-administering massage therapy on a body or limb.

A massage tool that provides direct therapeutic pressure to the ventral rami and femoral nerves, and/or the psoas and iliacus muscles is disclosed. The tool includes upward pointing blades that may be properly aligned with the nerves and/or muscles to gently lengthen the nerves and relax the muscles. This in turn may lessen pressure to associated joints and bones thereby providing relief to chronic back and/or leg pain.

The invention relates to a chair for accommodating a person. The chair includes an upper body section having an upper body contact surface adapted or adaptable to at least parts of a front of a torso or a rear of a torso of a person placed on the chair, and a lower body section having a lower body contact surface adapted or adaptable to at least parts of at least a front of a thigh of the person, wherein the upper body section and the lower body section are arranged or arrangeable and fixable in a position relative to each other such that the upper body contact surface and the lower body contact surface cause a hyperextension posture of the hip joint of the person with a predetermined hyperextension angle. By forming the hyperextension angle of the hip on the chair, shortening of the anterior thigh and hip muscles can be counteracted. Also disclosed are a pressing device for application to the human body, which is adapted for use on a chair and which includes one or more pressure units each having at least one pressure head adapted to apply local or point pressure at a predetermined pressure location on the body of a person accommodated on the chair, and a chair having such a pressing device.

A device for nuclear magnetic resonance therapy includes: a device configured to create an alternating magnetic field; a device configured to create a magnetic field as a sweep field running transversely to the alternating magnetic field; and a device configured to stretch a user.