Treatment apparatus for applying electrical impulses to the body of a patient

Treatment apparatus for applying electrical impulses to a living body through the skin, for non-invasively treating a variety of clinical conditions, comprising:

• a pair of co-located electrodes for surface contact with the skin;
• a waveform generator for repeatedly generating an AC waveform for applying electrical impulses through the electrodes to the skin;
• means responsive to a resistance generated between the electrodes due to skin impedance for detecting the responsivity of respective zones of a pre-determined area of the body and for producing output data representing the responsivity of each said respective zone;
• means for converting the output data into measurement values;
• a processor for generating a treatment map of the said pre-determined area of the body having at respective map locations corresponding to said respective zones the associated measurement values;
• a display for displaying said treatment map including said measurement values at said respective map locations;
• a store for storing information relating to the treatment map;
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• means for selecting a treatment zone from amongst the said respective zones based on an evaluation of the measurement values displayed at the map locations on the treatment map, in order to select the respective zone of greatest responsivity;
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• wherein the waveform generator is thereafter operable for generating the said AC waveform for administering a treatment through the co-located electrodes at the said selected treatment zone.