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US 8,136,531 B2Granted
Device and method for treating musculo-skeletal injury and pain by application of laser light therapy
OwnerMark D. Chariffinventor
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Abstract
A laser therapy device and method of treatment for treating musculo-skeletal pain. The device and treatment employ a composite laser beam comprised of multiple frequencies of laser energy.
Claims13
A method of providing laser therapy to a patient comprising the steps of;
- diagnosing the patient's area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- providing a laser therapy device at or near the surface of the patient's skin proximate to said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- causing said device to apply to said area of musculo-skeletal pain a composite laser beam comprised of beams emitted at a plurality of wavelengths including at least one beam emitted at a wavelength of approximately 532 nm, a second of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 808 nm, and a third of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 1064 nm;
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- manipulating said device in a pattern and for a duration over said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- wherein the laser therapy device emitting the composite laser beam comprises a power source, a driver board, an 808 nm pump laser diode, a microlens, a NDYV04 lasing crystal, a KTP lasing crystal, a collimating lens, and a single aperture, said device when in operation emitting a composite laser beam through a single aperture.
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A method of providing laser therapy to a patient comprising the steps of;
- diagnosing the patient's area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- providing a laser therapy device at or near the surface of the patient's skin proximate to said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- causing said device to apply to said area of musculo-skeletal pain a composite laser beam comprised of beams emitted at a plurality of wavelengths including at least one beam emitted at a wavelength of approximately 532 nm, a second of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 808 nm, and a third of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 1064 nm;
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- manipulating said device in a pattern and for a duration over said area of musculo-skeletal pain.
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A method of providing laser therapy to a patient comprising the steps of;
- diagnosing the patient's area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- providing a laser therapy device at or near the surface of the patient's skin proximate to said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- causing said device to apply to said area of musculo-skeletal pain a composite laser beam comprised of beams emitted at a plurality of wavelengths including at least one beam emitted at a wavelength of approximately 532 nm, a second of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 808 nm, and a third of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 1064 nm;
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- manipulating said device in a pattern and for a duration over said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- wherein the laser therapy device has a total power output of no more than 2 W.
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A method of providing laser therapy to a patient comprising the steps of;
- diagnosing the patient's area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- providing a laser therapy device at or near the surface of the patient's skin proximate to said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- causing said device to apply to said area of musculo-skeletal pain a composite laser beam comprised of beams emitted at a plurality of wavelengths including at least one beam emitted at a wavelength of approximately 532 nm, a second of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 808 nm, and a third of said beams emitted at a wavelength of approximately 1064 nm;
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- manipulating said device in a pattern and for a duration over said area of musculo-skeletal pain;
- wherein the laser therapy device administering laser light therapy comprises a 500 mW GaAlAs laser fitted with an ND:YV04 crystal and a KTP crystal wherein an infrared filter and focusing lens have been removed to provide the composite laser beam, said beam emitted over a relatively broad area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.