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US 10,118,003 B2Granted
Device and method for the reduction of pain associated with needle sticks
AssigneeMmj Labs, LLC
InventorsAmy L. Baxter, Louis A. Calderon
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Abstract
A device that is used to reduce the pain of a needle stick to a person, the device having a casing containing a vibratory device and a temperature reducing device, and a method for using the device to reduce the pain of a needle stick by applying both thermal and vibration analgesia to a subject during a needle stick.
Claims14
A device for reducing pain at a site of a subject, comprising:
- (a) a vibrational source capable of producing vibration, wherein the vibrational source is contained within a casing having an activating switch for the vibrational source and the casing comprising an application area;
- and
- (b) a thermal source capable of being cooled;
- wherein the vibrational source and thermal source are operatively positioned relative to each other and the application area, such that the thermal source and the vibrational source cooperate to provide cold and vibration to a site of the subject through the application area;
- and
- wherein the combination of the cold and vibration cooperatively transmitted produces a thermal analgesia and vibrational analgesia effect so as to reduce pain at the site of the subject.
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A method for reducing pain at a site of a subject, comprising:
- (a) placing on the site a device comprising:
- a vibrational source capable of producing vibration, wherein the vibrational source is contained within a casing having an activating switch for the vibrational source and the casing comprising an application area;
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- a thermal source capable of being cooled;
- wherein the thermal source has been cooled to a desired temperature;
- (b) operatively positioning the vibrational source and thermal source relative to each other and the application area such that the thermal source and the vibrational source cooperate to provide cold and vibration to the site in the subject;
- (c) activating the vibrational source using the switch;
- (d) maintaining the device at the site to reduce pain at the site;
- wherein the combination of the cold and vibration transmitted produces a thermal analgesia and vibrational analgesia effect so as to reduce pain at the site of the subject.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.