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- Patent Title: Methods and probes for vaginal tactile and electromyographic imaging and location-guided female pelvic floor therapy
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Application No.: US15248268Application Date: 2016-08-26
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Publication No.: US09861316B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Vladimir Egorov
- Applicant: Vladimir Egorov
- Applicant Address: US NJ Ewing
- Assignee: Advanced Tactile Imaging Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Tactile Imaging Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Ewing
- Agent Boris Leschinskuy
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61N1/05 ; A61N1/36 ; A61B5/0488 ; A61B5/22 ; A61B5/06

Abstract:
Methods and a probes are disclosed for vaginal tactile and electromyographic imaging, and location-guided female pelvic floor therapy. Methods include the steps of inserting a vaginal probe equipped with tactile sensors and electrodes acting as electromyographic sensors into a vagina along a vaginal canal to separate apart two opposing vaginal walls, recording a tactile response and an electromyographic response from at least one of two opposing vaginal walls during pelvic floor muscle contraction, determining locations along the vaginal canal for delivery of therapy based on presence of tactile response above a predetermined tactile threshold and/or presence of electromyographic response above a predetermined EMG threshold along the vaginal probe, selecting at least one of target locations to be used for location-guided therapy, and applying the therapy such as electrical muscle stimulation to at least one of selected locations using the same electrodes at these locations. The probe comprises a probe housing, a tactile sensors array, a plurality of electrodes which can be used as an electromyography array or as an electric muscle stimulation array, and at least one reference electrode.
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