Embodiments of the invention include a method and a device for increasing blood flow and controlling the temperature of a mammal by applying a desired pressure to extremities of a mammal. The device generally includes a pliant body element that is adapted to receive a portion of an extremity of the mammal therein, and then apply a pressure to a portion of the extremity when a pressure is provided to a region in which the extremity is positioned within the pliant body element. By evacuating the region in which the extremity is enclosed, a contact surface area between the extremity of a mammal and the pliant body element is increased, due to the external atmospheric pressure acting on the pliant body element against the skin of the extremity of the mammal. The application of pressure assures that sufficient contact and thermal heat transfer (heating or cooling) is provided to the extremity of the mammal.

An apparatus for minimally-invasive, including non-invasive, prevention and/or treatment of hydrocephalus and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the apparatus, a housing is sized for superjacent contact with a skull having a fontanel. Within the housing, a compartment includes a pressure applicator, such as a fluid-filled bladder, under the control of a pressure regulator. The pressure applicator is configured to selectively apply an external pressure to the fontanel. The compartment includes a pressure sensor configured to measure intracranial pulse pressure of the fontanel. Further, in one embodiment, the apparatus can cause pulse pressure modulation by adjusting the intracranial pulse pressure via the pressure applicator. This enables a non-invasive measurement of the pulse pressure and modulation thereof in infants, for example.

An air pump device for a massage device includes a recognition device to acquire a type of the massage device via a wireless communication with an identification device of the massage device, and a controller to set an operation pattern based on the type of the massage device. The controller controls a pump connectable to an inflatable bladder of the massage device, based on the operation pattern.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient’s extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.

The invention relates to a method for treatment of erectile dysfunction using a combination of heat and negative pressure.

A therapeutic device for treating conditions of a user's nasal cavities, sinuses, and/or ear canals includes a housing which the user may hold to apply the therapeutic device to the user, the housing including an inlet that allows air to enter the therapeutic device. An acoustic vibrator located within the housing provides an acoustic vibration to the user, and a power supply located within the housing provides power to the acoustic vibrator. A mask is connected to the housing and includes a nasal interface that is appliable around the nose of the user. A valve of the mask opens to allow the user to breathe through the inlet and closes to prevent the user from exhaling through the inlet. The mask further includes a diaphragm and a nasal cavity in which a user's nostrils are located when the nasal interface is applied to the user.

Methods and devices are provided for manipulating the glymphatic system to improve cognitive and other cranial or brain functions of a subject. In particular, pressure is alternately applied to the jugular veins on either side of the subject's neck to generate a to and fro movement of cranial fluids.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient’s extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.

Provided in the present invention is a handpiece (300) for a treatment device with improved stability and hygiene function by being configured so as to freely adjust the angle of a vacuum cap depending on a treatment site and to attach/detach the vacuum cap to/from the handpiece (300). The handpiece (300) capable of attaching/detaching a vacuum cap and adjusting an angle of the vacuum cap comprises: a vacuum cap (310) having an open lower surface and a hollow part formed therein; a body part (410) configured to attach/detach the vacuum cap (310) thereto/therefrom; a vacuum device (350) for providing a reference negative pressure to the vacuum cap so that a target site of the skin can be adhered toward the hollow part of the vacuum cap; a reference negative pressure variable device (360) for varying the reference negative pressure in a pulse form under the condition in which the hollow part of the vacuum cap (310) maintains the negative pressure; RF electrodes (320, 321) configured to be exposed to the inside wall of the vacuum cap (310) so that, when the target site of the skin has been adhered toward the hollow part of the vacuum cap (310), the skin adhered toward the hollow part comes into contact with the inside of the hollow part of the vacuum cap (310); and a control unit (380) for controlling driving of the vacuum device (350), the reference negative pressure variable device (360), and the RF electrodes (320, 321). The driving of the reference negative pressure variable device (360) and the RF electrodes (320, 321) for treating the target site of the skin is controlled so as to select any one of single driving, simultaneous driving, and alternating driving. The attachment/detachment of the vacuum cap (310) to/from the body part (410) is made by simultaneous coupling or simultaneous separation of a vacuum cap connection unit (430) that consists of a vacuum tube coupler (432) configured at an end of the body part (410), power supply connectors (433, 434), and a clip (435).

A method of stimulating nasal tissues using a system comprises a catheter assembly connected to a fluid flow generator. The catheter assembly comprises a generally oblong inflatable catheter defining at least one catheter volume and a tube part comprising at least one lumen configured to establish fluid flow connection between said fluid flow generator and catheter. Preferably, the catheter assembly comprises at least one vent for releasing fluid or permitting fluid to escape from the generated fluid flow. The method generally comprises the steps of: providing a fluid flow from the fluid flow generator; inflating the catheter to assume a shape suitable for insertion in the nasal cavity; inserting the catheter to a predetermined position in a nasal cavity; adjusting the catheter with the fluid flow regulator to assume a shape suitable for stimulating the nasal tissue; and stimulating the nasal tissue by selecting at least one of a smooth continuous fluid flow, an oscillating fluid flow and a pulsating fluid flow.