Magnotherapy device

Claim 1

A magnotherapy device comprising: a housing of substantially plano-rectangular configuration having a contact surface adapted for positioning against a human or animal body, said housing comprising a top part and a bottom part, said top part comprising a substantially rectangular top wall having a pair of opposed end edges and a longer pair of opposed side edges, and two side walls depending from said pair of opposed side edges, said bottom part comprising a bottom wall and four side walls upstanding from said bottom wall, said side walls of said bottom being adapted to be received between said side walls of said top part, and said side walls and said bottom wall of said bottom part defining a well; means for securing the housing to said human or animal body; and magnetic field-producing means received in said well defined in said bottom part of said housing and arranged to successively present opposite magnetic poles to blood flowing through said human or animal body in a direction which is substantially parallel to said contact surface, said magnetic field-producing means producing a magnetic field strength of at least 150 gauss at a distance of 10 mm from said housing, and comprising a ferrous metal keeper plate and a plate magnet having opposite faces bounded by opposite edges, said opposite edges being disposed adjacent to said side walls of said bottom part, said plate magnet having first and second magnetic poles at said opposite faces thereof, said first magnetic pole being disposed adjacent to said contact surface and said second magnetic pole being disposed adjacent to said ferrous metal keeper plate, said keeper plate extending substantially beyond said opposite edges of said plate magnet at said second face so as to produce said opposite magnetic pole effect at said contact surface.