Tissue treatment device and method

A method for imparting a therapeutic dose of energy to living tissue, comprising:

• (a) affixing first, second and third electrodes to a carrier, which comprises one or more of a panel and a glove;
• (b) positioning the carrier with the first, second and third electrodes at and in contact with a location on the living tissue;
• (c) applying first, second and third pulsed signals to the living tissue through, respectively, without limitation to order, the first, second and third electrodes, each of the pulsed signals being applied automatically through a corresponding one of the first, second and third electrodes under control of a microprocessor;
• (d) receiving, in any or no order, first, second and third return signals, issued from the living tissue, through, respectively, without limitation to order, the first, second and third electrodes;
• (e) comparing a value of at least one measurable characteristic of the return signals from a first one of the electrodes with the same characteristic of other ones of the return signals;
• (f) determining with the microprocessor a painful trigger point to underlie at least one treatment electrode of the first, second and third electrodes, the at least one treatment electrode being determined, and also being selected for delivery of the therapeutic dose of energy, by the microprocessor from the comparing;
• (g) directing the therapeutic dose of energy through the selected treatment electrode into a vicinity of the painful trigger point of the living tissue, whereby an amount of the therapeutic dose delivered by the selected treatment electrode is greater than amounts of therapeutic doses delivered by other ones of the plurality of electrodes;
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• (h) automatically repeating (c)-(g), but not (b), one or more times.