Light therapy bandage

Abstract

A radiant energy bandage assembly is disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment, the radiant energy bandage assembly comprises an encased flexible PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) including a plurality of radiant lamps and a plurality of apertures aligned with the plurality of radiant lamps. A control pod docking interface operatively connected to the flexible PCBA provides an interface to operatively connect a user control pod to control a dosage of radiant energy to a user treatment area.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer operatively arranged and configured with a radiant energy bandage assembly including a plurality of radiant lamps, the radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer comprising:
 a flexible conformable thermal conduction layer including a plurality of radiant energy communication areas positioned to align with the plurality of radiant lamps to communicate radiant energy from the plurality of radiant lamps through the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer to a user treatment area, the flexible thermal conduction layer including a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface adapted to be removably attached to the operatively arranged and configured radiant energy bandage assembly and the bottom surface adapted to cover and conform to the user treatment area.   
     
     
         2 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer includes a sticky adhesive gel on one or both of the top surface and bottom surface. 
     
     
         3 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer includes a first sublayer made of a first sublayer material, a second sublayer made of a second material and a third sublayer made of a third sublayer material, the first sublayer adapted to be removably attached by a user to the flexible radiant energy bottom cover layer and attached to the second sublayer, the second sublayer attached to the first and third sublayer, and the third sublayer adapted to be removably attached by the user to cover and conform to the user treatment area and attached to the second sublayer. 
     
     
         4 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the third sublayer includes one or more of a bioclusive material, a biocompatible material and an anti-microbial material. 
     
     
         5 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer is a silicon and/or urethane-based material. 
     
     
         6 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer is made of a thermally conductive material composition with a thermal conductivity greater than 0.4 W/m-K (watts/meter Kelvin) to provide thermal conduction of received radiantly transferred heat from the plurality of radiant lamps through the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer bottom surface to the user treatment area. 
     
     
         7 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer is a hydrogel. 
     
     
         8 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer includes a scrim extending beyond an edge of the conduction layer to provide a tab for removing the replaceable flexible conformable thermal conduction layer from the flexible radiant energy bottom cover layer. 
     
     
         9 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer has a thickness of 1 mm to 20 mm. 
     
     
         10 . The radiant energy bandage thermal conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable conduction layer bottom surface includes a continuous thermally conductive surface area greater than a total bottom surface area of all the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer plurality of radiant energy communication areas. 
     
     
         11 . The radiant energy bandage conductive gel layer according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible conformable thermal conduction layer includes 40-99% water.