Various embodiments are directed to a therapy tape configured to enable a tensile force to be applied to one or more surfaces (e.g., a patient's skin). In various embodiments, the therapy tape may comprise a backing layer having a top surface and a bottom surface. An adhesive layer configured to secure the therapy tape to a surface may be secured relative to the bottom surface of the backing layer. Moreover, one or more handles may be secured to the top side of the backing layer. The one or more handles may be configured to enable a tensile force to be applied to the therapy tape and the surface to lift a portion of the surface while maintaining adherence between the therapy tape and the surface.

The present technology generally relates to an absorbent biophotonic fiber system and to articles comprising the absorbent biophotonic fiber system as well as to the potential uses thereof, such as, for example, in wound treatment.

A method of irradiating a wound that includes positioning a wound insertion foam within a wound cavity of a wound and covering the wound insertion foam using a wound sealing layer. The method further includes pumping fluid from the wound cavity using a drain tube sealed within the wound cavity and coupled to a vacuum source, and irradiating the wound using a light diffusing optical fiber that is optically coupled to a therapeutic light source and includes light scattering structures distributed along the light diffusing optical fiber. A portion of the light diffusing optical fiber is positioned within a wound tissue region of the wound, the wound cavity, or both, such that light emitted by the therapeutic light source enters the light diffusing optical fiber, scatters outward from the light diffusing optical fiber, and irradiates the wound tissue region, a wound cavity surface of the wound, or both.

A skin patch that is adherable to human skin over a blemish on the skin has an outer layer that forms a physical barrier over the blemish when applied thereto and a hydrocolloid layer attached to the outer layer that contacts the blemish when applied thereto. A thermochromic material is on the skin patch and/or waterproof packaging encapsulating the skin patch. The thermochromic material indicates the skin patch is at a predetermined temperature.

A wound bandage for administering light therapy is provided. The wound bandage may comprise a coated disposable flexible circuit. The disposable flexible circuit may comprise a set of plastic light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The disposable flexible circuit may be perforated and the set of LEDs may comprise at least one LED configured to emit light with a wavelength. The wound bandage may comprise a medical-grade adhesive disposed on a surface of the wound bandage. The adhesive may be configured to attach the wound bandage to a user's skin and maintain the wound bandage in a desired area. The wound bandage may comprise a socket configured to receive a connector coupled to an external control unit. The socket may transmit a control signal from the control unit to the set of LEDs and the control signal may pulse the set of LEDs at a frequency and a duty cycle.

The invention relates to a medical plaster (1) with a layer (2) of textile fabric or plastic, an adhesive layer (5), and an absorbent dressing layer (3). To permit individual dosing of an active substance and/or a physical cooling effect, it is proposed that the fabric or plastic layer (2) has an opening (4) in the area of the dressing layer (3), such that the dressing layer (3) is exposed and accessible in the area of the opening (4). The invention moreover comprises a medical kit (100) with the plaster, and a hood that has the plaster (1) as an integral part.

An electrically-heatable plaster that comprises a self-adhesive skin contact layer, an electrically-conductive textile fabric in which electrically-conductive fibres are in contact with one another, as a heating element, and optionally at least one active substance, as well as to a method for production and the use of same for local heat therapy and/or transdermal application of active substances.

Various embodiments are directed to a therapy tape configured to enable a tensile force to be applied to one or more surfaces (e.g., a patient's skin). In various embodiments, the therapy tape may comprise a backing layer having a top surface and a bottom surface. An adhesive layer configured to secure the therapy tape to a surface may be secured relative to the bottom surface of the backing layer. Moreover, one or more handles may be secured to the top side of the backing layer. The one or more handles may be configured to enable a tensile force to be applied to the therapy tape and the surface to lift a portion of the surface while maintaining adherence between the therapy tape and the surface.

A fabric for producing an induced electromagnetic field in the presence of a human body to reduce endogenous pain, includes a non-conductive base fabric, a plurality of parallel, spaced apart electrically conducting carbon fibers interspersed in the base fabric constituting approximately 3% of the weight of the fabric, and a plurality of parallel, spaced apart electrically conducting silver fibers interspersed in the base fabric constituting approximately 6% of the weight of the fabric, and being in parallel, spaced apart relation to the electrically conducting carbon fibers.

The present invention relates to a modified member for preventing bedsores, which includes a stacked body composed of: a pad layer formed from synthetic resin foam and hydrocolloid or hydrogel, a cover layer which is integrally stacked on the outer surface of the pad layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on the inner surface of the cover layer and having a pressure-sensitive adhesive, in which the cover layer includes an opening penetratingly formed at a central portion thereof to allow the patient's skin to be observed therethrough, thereby preventing bedsores from developing between the central part of the buttock and the anus and at bilateral femoral puncture sites of patients who have been bedridden for a long time.