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US 7,410,493 B1Granted
Method and device for the treatment of anxiety disorders
OwnerYu Chen, Ming An Cheninventors
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A method and device for the treatment of anxiety disorder, including panic attacks. A hammer is used to tap the cutaneous region of the bladder channel on the back until the skin turns pink. The skin on the abdomen, arms, legs, and buttocks can also be used for treatment. The hammer preferably has a magnetic piece in one end of the hammer head. The method can treat anxiety disorder including panic attack, general anxiety, phobia, posttraumatic stress disorder, stress related tension headache, insomnia, and any stress. Patients can use the hammer to treat themselves at home, office, and during traveling. The method and device are simple, effective, nontoxic, safe, have no side effects, inexpensive, and convenient.
A method of treating anxiety disorders, diagnosable as a psychiatric illness, comprising tapping areas of the skin on the body with a hammer until the skin becomes pink, and wherein the head of the hammer that contacts the skin does not have a sharp protrusion that can penetrate the skin, and wherein the tapping area is in the back on both sides of the spine, about 1 to about 2 inches away from the spine between the thoracic vertebral 3 and the sacroiliac vertebral 4 level wherein the width of the tapping area is about 1 to about 1.5 inches on both sides of the spine and wherein tapping area is at about lumbar 2 vertebral level, the width of the tapping is about 3 to about 4 inches on both sides of the spine.
A method of treating anxiety disorders, diagnosable as a psychiatric illness, comprising tapping areas of the skin on the body with a hammer until the skin becomes pink, wherein the head of the hammer that contacts the skin does not have a sharp protrusion that can penetrate the skin, and wherein the tapping area is on the outer side of the upper arm or the outer side of the forearms;
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