Systems and methods for the treatment and prevention of female pelvic dysfunction
AssigneeMaterna Medical, Inc.
InventorMark Juravic
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Abstract
Systems for the treatment and prevention of pelvic dysfunction are provided. In one embodiment, a vaginal dilation device includes a handle portion and a shaft portion. The shaft portion is configured to expand from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration. The shaft portion can include a distal tip region, a spine region, and a distal arm region connecting the distal tip region to the spine region. The spine region can extend distally from the handle portion to the distal arm region, and can be generally tubular in shape. The distal arm region can be generally conical in shape and be configured to provide a gradual increase in diameter from the distal tip region to the spine region. Methods of use are also provided.
Claims10
A vaginal dilation device for treating pelvic dysfunction, comprising:
- a body having
- a distal non-expanding section shaped for entering a vaginal canal of a patient by incrementally moving aside a tissue wall of the vaginal canal during distal travel of the body into the vaginal canal, and
- an expanding section, connected to the distal non-expanding section and being proximal thereto, and capable of expanding from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration, and having a gradually increasing diameter and conically shaped from the distal non-expanding section to the expanding section in the expanded configuration,
- a motor connected to the expanding section and capable of mechanically expanding the expanding section from the collapsed configuration to the expanded configuration, and
- a cover that provides a barrier to biological material and that extends over the non-expanding section and the expanding section of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.