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US 6,763,525 B1Granted
Therapeutic clothing and method of use
OwnerDonald Spectorinventor
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Abstract
A therapeutic article of clothing is provided which is useful for the therapeutic application of pressure at certain pressure points throughout the human body. The clothing contains regions or pouches containing pellets at strategic locations which, when worn, aligns and centers the pouch over the pressure points where upon pin-point pressure can then be applied to the body by pressing on the pellet.
Claims18
A therapeutic article of clothing comprising:
- (a) at least one area of said clothing which, when said clothing is worn by a person, will discretely center the area over a specific known acupoint on the body of said person, and
- (b) embedded in said area of said clothing at least one hard pellet configured such that whereupon the person's pressing the pellet against the body the person wearing the clothing exerts pin-point pressure substantially equaling that of acupuncture to the acupoint, providing at least some therapeutic benefit to said person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.