Pneumatic massage apparatus for treatment of edema and method for massaging patient's body with the apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10130544B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US14627475

    申请日:2015-02-20

    IPC分类号: A61H9/00 A61H1/00

    摘要: A pneumatic massage apparatus making it possible to perform even more efficient drainage is provided.A pneumatic massage apparatus includes a massage device to be fitted to wrap around at least one of an arm or leg of a patient and having a plurality of air chambers disposed in series in a proximal direction from a distal position of the at least one of an arm and a leg toward the center of the patient's body, and a compressed air control unit configured to supply compressed air into the plurality of air chambers to pressurize them, and discharge compressed air from the plurality air chambers to depressurize them. The compressed air control unit is configured to depressurize the pressurized air chambers in such a manner that, of any pair of mutually adjacent air chambers, a proximal air chamber of the pair first starts to be depressurized, and then a distal air chamber of the pair starts to be depressurized.