Abstract: A wearable undergarment with removable pads designed in a modular configuration customized to the user by an attending physician. Undergarment provides gradual mechanical realignment and pain relief for injury to the coccyx resulting in coccydynia. Customized modular pads provide the user with variable compression, particularly underneath the buttocks and surrounding region while sitting.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating a synovial cyst is disclosed. The method includes determining a presence and location of a cyst within a body, penetrating the cyst through a penetration bore to release a synovial fluid accumulation from within the cyst. A suction is applied to the cyst to via the penetration bore to extract a volume of the fluid accumulation from within the cyst. A weeping tube is inserted in the penetration bore to communicate synovial fluid from the cyst to maintain the cyst in a depressed condition for a predetermined temporal period. The weeping tube an external sidewall and an interior channel configured to communicate a synovial fluid from the synovial cyst. A plurality of protrusions about the external sidewall engage with a body tissue surrounding a penetration bore in the body tissue to retain the weeping tube at a desired placement within the penetration bore.

Abstract: A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice.

Abstract: A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice.

Abstract: A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice.

Abstract: The needle assembly comprises a needle including an elongated tubular needle body having open distal and proximal ends, and an elongated stylet having a solid shank complementary to the tubular needle body and slidably movable therewithin substantially coaxially thereto. The needle body includes a tip portion defining the distal end and a main portion defining the proximal end. Moreover, the tip portion bendable relative to the main portion. In turn, the stylet shank has a solid distal end. Furthermore, at least one of the distal end of the needle body and the distal end of the stylet shank is beveled at an angle to a longitudinal axis of corresponding one of the needle body and the stylet shank. The beveled distal end exerts a bending force to the tip portion of the needle body against the beveled face during advancement of the needle body through a human tissue.