Bone-growth stimulator
View Patent ↗Apparatus including a bone-growth stimulator including a vibrating element housed in a hand-held housing and/or an osseous limb wrapping.
1. Apparatus comprising:
a bone-growth stimulator comprising footwear that comprises a foot-contacting surface for receiving thereupon a user's foot and a ground-contacting surface, wherein two bulbous protuberances, each having a curved outer contour, protrude from a bottom surface of said ground-contacting surface, one of said protuberances being positioned more posteriorly than the other of said protuberances; and
a vibrating element disposed in at least one of said protuberances.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said vibrating element comprises an oscillating element energized by an electrical power source.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said oscillating element comprises an oscillating mass that moves in a periodic motion.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said oscillating element comprises an ultrasonic transducer.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said vibrating element vibrates at a frequency in a range of about 1-800 Hz.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said vibrating element is operative to induce strain in bone tissue in a range of about 1-1000 microstrain.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said protuberances are positioned on a common longitudinal axis of said footwear.
8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of said protuberances has said vibrating element disposed therein.