Patents Assigned to Hugh P. Cash
  • Patent number: 4406288
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for conditioning the pelvic floor musculature of a living being to inhibit bladder contractility and relax the bladder so as to prevent involuntary urinary loss. The apparatus and method involve providing a pair of electrodes adapted for contact with tissue associated with the floor musculature. A steady, adjustable bias potential difference is applied to said electrodes, said potential difference having a value or amplitude which is less than a predetermined threshold value as the latter is established by a specific electrode orientation in or with relation to the tissue. Simultaneously with such application of bias voltage there is also applied to said electrodes a repeated adjustable intermittent potential, so as to cause resultant voltage values or peaks which are above the said threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Hugh P. Cash
    Inventors: Elwood R. Horwinski, Edward P. McGuire