Hydrosun 750

Specifications

Design: Halogen lamp as radiation source, hermetical sealed cuvette as water filter (Life of the Filter: 3.000 hours ~3-4 years), radio-interference-free AC fan for convection cooling, electronic timer to determine the treatment time.

Product type: hydrosun® Irradiator 750 with digital timer

Irradiation Area visible at a Distance of 32 cm (distance rod): 28 cm diameter

Radiation emission: WIRA® (waterfiltered infrared A) and VIS (visible light), no UV-radiation

Technical data of hydrosun®750 depending on rated voltage and power consumption:
Use only the spare parts metioned in this chart (!):

Fuses (2 pieces): Type M8 A (slow blow fuse) for all voltage conditions

Protection class: 1 (No one)

Safety Switch: Automatic cut-out, self-resetting when Irradiator cools down (restart)

Dimensions: Length 28 cm (not including distance rod), width 27 cm, height 28 cm

Weight: Approx. 7.5 kg (with table stand)

Ambient Conditions: Temperature +10 °C, max. 35 °C (operation); above 0 °C, max. 50 °C (storage). Relative humidity 25% to 95% (no condensation allowed). Atmospheric pressure 600 hPa to 1060 hPa.

Lifetime of Water Filter: approximately 3000 operating hours or approximately 3 years (only storing without using the water filter does not increase the lifetime substantially)

Classification: Active medical device, class IIa according to 93/42/EEC European Medical Device Directive (MDD) §13, Rule 9

CE Certification: In compliance with directive 93/42/EEC of June 14, 1993 (Medical Device Directive,

wIRA and theory

Natural Heating

The hydrosun® Irradiator reproduces the combination of the sun and the humid atmosphere. Without producing ultraviolet rays, its emission lies in the deep penetrating area of infrared-A with wave-lengths from 0.76 to 1.4 micrometers.

Only through the filtering effect of the water in the atmosphere does the sun’s radiation lose ist harmful impact enabling a diversity of growth. Without this filtering of the sun’s radiation by the atmosphere, absorption of this energy through the water molecules in the most superfical human skin layers would occur, which would result in a stinging and burning sensation. Intense overheating and rapid tissue dehydration would be the result. Without the protective filter of the humid atmosphere, the sun’s infrared radiation can lead to extreme dehydration: this can be seen in the earth’s desert regions where extremely hostile conditions prevail.

The water-filtered infrared-A-radiation (wIRA) of hydrosun® Irradiators allows a locoregional heating of human tissue with a high penetration depth and intensity. The unique principle of operation involves the use of a hermetically sealed water filter in the radiation path to absorb those infrared wavelengths which would otherwise harm the skin. This absorption results of the activation of the OH-groups at 940, 1180, and 1380 nanometers. Hence, with the higher radiation intensity, therapeutic heating of deeper tissue layers over longer periods of time can be achieved.

Μόνο μέσω του φυσικού φιλτραρίσματος του φωτός με την υγρασία της ατμόσφαιρας, απορροφάται η βλαβερή ακτινοβολία και επιτρέπεται η ποικιλομορφία στην ανάπτυξη. Αν αυτό το φιλτράρισμα δεν εφαρμοστεί, η βλαβερή ακτινοβολία θα προσβάλει το δέρμα, με αποτέλεσμα αίσθημα τσουξίματος και καψίματος. Χωρίς το φιλτράρισμα της υγρασίας στην ατμόσφαιρα, η υπέρυθρη ακτινοβολία οδηγεί σε ακραία αφυδάτωση, όπως συμβαίνει σε περιβάλλοντα όπως η έρημος.

wIRA  produces a therapeutic heat field in tissue by

• reaching capillaries of the skin by the infrared-A radiation (primary warming)

• heat distribution by the blood(cooling of tissue areas near
  the surface of the skin, spreading of the heat into the depth)

• increasing capillary bloodflowwith expansion of the blood flow areas accessible to the radiation and by this augmenting the second mechanism

• conduction of heat into the depth

• secondary energy release by timulation of metabolism (increase of metabolism) aused by the increase of temperature (in accordance with the reaction velocity temperature rule a 3°C higher temperature means approximately 30% more speed of reaction and by this more energy provision and release in the tissue)

• relatively high primary depth ffectiveness of wIRA. Non-thermal effects of wIRA without a relevant transfer of heat energy and without a relevant change of temperature) are based on putting a stimulus on cells and cellular structures as a specific (direct)  radiation effect. Reactions of the cells at infrared radiation – even partly at very small irradiances – are e.g.

• target oriented growth of surface xtensions (plasmodia)

• influence on the cytochrome c oxidase

• target oriented growth of eurons

• stimulation of wound repair

• cell protective effects (including signalling pathway)

For wIRA with appropriate therapeutic irradiances and doses it could not only be demonstrated, that it is harmless (no induction of matrix metalloproteinase 1), but that it has cell protective effects against the damages caused by UV radiation. In addition, wavelengths within wIRA have been shown to influence adhesive interactions between cells and extracellular matrices, playing a regulative role in wound repair processes, and may have a positive effect on cosmetic results. It is also supposed that wIRA has immunomodulatory effects.

In human medicine, improvement of wound healing by wIRA has been demonstrated in numerous clinical trials and case studies. Fresh operation wounds, as well as chronic wounds, experimental wounds and severe burnings could be successfully treated.

Research showed that wIRA, apart from the temperature, considerably increases the oxygen partial pressure and the blood flow in tissue – two factors which are crucial for an improvement of wound healing as well as for infection defence. Remarkable pain relief could be observed.

Indications

Hydrosun^® Irradiators with water filter are employed for the following indications in the area of:

General medicine

• Chronic, degenerative rheumatic illnesses
• Chronic pain in the support or locomotor mechanism
• Chronic neuritis, neuralgia
• Arthrosis (chronic poly arthritis)
• Cervical spine (cervical syndrome)
• Thoracic spine (intercostal neuralgia)
• Lumbar spine (lumbar syndrome)
• Keloid formation around scars
• Sinus problems; circulatory problems
• Peripheral blood circulatory disturbance
• Warts (verrucae), psoriasis by photodynamic therapy (PDT)

Rheumatology

• Chronic rheumatic inflammation (arthritis, visceral rheumatism)
• Chronic, recurring pain syndrome in the spinal region
• Lumbago
• Lumbar sciatica
• Arthritis of the major joints (omarthritis, gonarthritis, coxarthritis)
• Torticollis (muscular wry-neck)
• Muscular headaches
• Shoulder/arm pain
• Progressive, systemic sclerosis
• Sclerodermia sircumscripta

Sports Medicine/Orthopedics

• Myogeloses
• Strained shoulder/neck muscles, neck pain, shoulder stiffness
• Strained thoracic muscles
• Intervertebral disk problems, lumbago
• Subluxations, distortions (not acute)
• Slipped disks, tennis elbow
• Sacroiliac syndrome (blockage of the sacroiliac joints)

Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) medicine

• Chronic, recurring sinus inflammations
• Eustachian tube/middle ear catarrh

Dermatology

• Ulcus cruris, Problematic wounds
• Systemic sclerodermia
• Chronic skin ulcerations and disturbance of wound healing
• Skin lesions
• 5-aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy of basaliomia, actinic dyskeratosis
• Therapy of warts (verrucae)
• Akne(Acne vulgaris)

Paediatrician/Neonatology

• Source of heating for open care, and at reanimation stations, and during infant care in incubators

Oncology

• Primary tumors lying near the skin surface, relapses, metastases
• 5-aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy of basalioma, actinic dyskeratosis

Pain relief

• Muscle pain
• Neuropathic pain
• Wound pain
• Fibromyalgia (FMS)