VacuStyler - Product and Idea

Between 8 to 22 percent of the population have a peripheral occlusive arterial disease (OAD) according to a report from the 22nd European Cardiology Congress, Amsterdam. And the tendency is rising! Seven percent of patients have to undergo an amputation within five years; this risk is increased to as much as 30 percent for diabetics. Due to the high cardiovascular risk not only the extremities but also the lives of the patients are in danger. So great significance should be attached to therapy and prevention.

Here it is - the treatment method you and a lot of your patients have been waiting for years. Intermittent lower body negative pressure therapy with the Vacustyler device represents innovation and state of the art technology in the battle against leg and vascular diseases. The principle of the Vacustyler lies in space medicine. No astronaut can do without the lower body negative pressure device (LBNPD) in manned space travel in order to keep fit in the weightlessness of space and maintain the arterial blood supply of the lower extremities. Numerous tests carried out by NASA and the German Space Agency verify drastic capillary dilation and capillarisation together with an increase in micro and macro perfusion in the lower extremities even with continual application with negative pressure.

VacuStyler - Objectives and Possibilities 

This method used by space medicine, called negative pressure treatment with the LBNPD, has now been modified.

An external heart for the lower body - The aim: an effective therapy for leg and vascular diseases. In contrast to the LBNPD used by space medicine, the VacuStyler pulses negative pressure at adjustable intervals. This acts like a pump, or more precisely like an external heart for the lower body. Intermittent waves of negative pressure and normal atmospheric pressure bring about capillarisation and capillary dilation; they suck fresh blood containing oxygen and nutrients into the extremity. Even poorly per fused, alchemic tissue is revitalized in this way.

The aim: an effective therapy for leg and vascular diseases. In contrast to the LBNPD used by space medicine, the VacuStyler pulses negative pressure at adjustable intervals. This acts like a pump, or more precisely like an external heart for the lower body. Intermittent waves of negative pressure and normal atmospheric pressure bring about capillarisation and capillary dilation; they suck fresh blood containing oxygen and nutrients into the extremity. Even poorly per fused, alchemic tissue is revitalized in this way.

VacuStyler - Treatment - Negative pressure for your patients

This makes the new intermittent negative pressure therapy interesting for a whole range of complementary indications, for example as a means of firming connective tissue (increase of collagen synthesis) or as a treatment of so-called cellulite which is now recognized as being a local lymph circulation disorder. In addition to the general technical patents an international patent has been granted to the method for this indication.

Treatment with the VacuStyler device is pleasant for the patient and easy to carry out for the therapist. Usually the patient remains dressed (only shoes and belt are removed). It is easy to enter the "space tube" through an iris seal. The iris is closed and secured simply by turning and is resistant to pressure and negative pressure.

Clear Treatment Parameters

Average treatment time for most indications is only 20 minutes. An electronic timer enables precise setting and switches the device off automatically when the preset time is up. A signal also sounds for the therapist.

In addition to treatment time negative pressure intensity is infinitely variable (20 to 80 mbar) depending on the indication. The VacuStyler reaches the preset level independently, checks and if necessary corrects the true and set value automatically during the whole therapy. Each phase of negative and atmospheric pressure can also be adjusted to the second to stimulate arterial perfusion (longer negative pressure intervals) or venous and lymphatic reflux (longer normal pressure intervals) depending on the indication.

Vacustyler - Rentability and Investment

Highly profitable - The ideal location for the new intermittent lower body negative pressure device is institutions and practices which already have a clientele of patients suffering from leg and vascular diseases. This includes special clinics and sanatoriums, diabetic centers, phlebological or vascular surgeries and physical therapy practices. If one considers that a third of OAD patients are not even diagnosed, as a group of angiologists in the Transatlantic Intersociety Consensus confirms, practices are given the opportunity for additional potential patients.

In addition the method is ideal as a complementary therapy for numerous practices and institutions which have so far offered no suitable service for the constantly increasing number of leg and vascular diseases up to and including cellulite.

And finally using the intermittent lower body negative pressure device is extremely profitable: just one application per day is enough to cover the cost - not to mention tax advantages! Each further application means immediate profit!

So investing in intermittent negative pressure therapy is more than an investment in a new kind of therapy, it is an investment in a secure and profitable yield.

Safe Investment

In addition to the easy operation and high profitability of the VacuStyler device, another advantage is the low energy consumption. The device is plugged into a normal socket and uses hardly more electricity than a normal hairdryer. Moreover it takes up little more space than an examination couch. Finally an important consideration for many institutes is that the intermittent lower body negative pressure device is fully automatic so requires hardly any staff.

VacuStyler - Indications:

• peripheral OAD

• malperfusion in the case of paraplegia

• diabetic microangiopathy

• chronic venous insufficiency (postthrombotic syndrome)

• prophylaxis of vascular and leg diseases

• thrombosis prophylaxis

• vascular training

• cellulite syndrome

• tissue firming

• wellness