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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Ict Therapeutics, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Morteza Naghavi, Houston, TX (US);
Albert Yen, Pearland, TX (US);
Timothy O'Brien, Anoka, MN (US);
Stephan Cleboski, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy Brinkley, Sugar Land, TX (US);
David Panthagani, Houston, TX (US);
IC Therapeutics Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for inducing physiological effects of ischemic conditioning and physiological effects of shear stress in a subject's body that mimic the effect of exercise on the subject. The disclosure includes a first device configured to cause ischemia, a second device configured to mechanically generate arterial shear stress, and a third device configured to monitor one or more of markers of ischemia or hemodynamic parameters and further including a microcontroller and actuators to cause the ischemia for a preset duration and then stop the ischemia for a preset duration, and to repeat the ischemia and reflow periods according to a preset program, simultaneously cause the second device to mechanically generate arterial shear stress according to a preset program of mechanical pulse amplitude, duration, and frequency; and to concurrently monitor hemodynamic parameters or markers of ischemia. The method and device further includes application of electrical muscle stimulation, body vibration and chemical stimuli.