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Surgery: Light, Thermal, And Electrical Application > Light, Thermal, And Electrical Application > Electrical Therapeutic Systems > Electrical Treatment Of Pain Electrical Treatment Of PainElectrical Treatment Of Pain patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/23/06 - 20060265023 - Headache reduction method and apparatus The invention relates to method and apparatus for relieving headaches. The method broadly comprises the step of applying a sufficient force to a given area of the triangular fossa region of the patient's ear for a sustained period of time effective for treating the patient by reducing the perceived pain ... 11/02/06 - 20060247732 - Activity sensing for stimulator control The disclosure describes a system that measures the distance between one or more electrodes and tissue of a patient, and controls one or more parameters of the stimulation delivered to the tissue by the electrodes based on the measured distance. The system controls the measurement of the distance between the ... 11/02/06 - 20060247731 - Method of removing deleterious charged molecules from brain tissue Methods and devices for removing cationic glutamate or anionic aluminum complexes from brain tissue by applying a voltage to the brain tissue. ... 11/02/06 - 20060247730 - Electrotherapy apparatus using low and intermediate frequencies Disclosed herein is an electrotherapy apparatus using low and intermediate frequencies. In the electrotherapy apparatus of the present invention, a user selects one of low and intermediate output modes depending upon need, positive and negative electrodes made of conductive rubber are provided therein, and a vacuum cup is attached to ... 10/26/06 - 20060241722 - Evaluating stimulation therapies and patient satisfaction A tissue stimulation system is provided that evaluates and/or scores stimulation sets based on both patient feedback and frequency of use. Stimulation sets and any associated scores and/or usage may be stored in a retrievable database. Upon subsequent stimulation sessions, a patient may select stimulation sets that have a high ... 10/26/06 - 20060241721 - Display graphics for use in stimulation therapies Tissue stimulation systems, such as spinal cord stimulation systems, include a pulse generator to generate pulses at various amplitude, duration, and frequency through one or more electrodes. A visual depiction of both a pulse and an electrode configuration is thus provided herein. These depictions may be used in a stimulation ... 10/26/06 - 20060241720 - Graphical representation of pain therapy A graphical display for use in a stimulation session includes a human figure depiction and a depiction of the one or more implanted electrodes. The depictions aid in pain mapping and in programming effective electrode configurations to be supplied in a pain stimulation session. Pain maps, paresthesia maps, and/or stimulation ... 10/19/06 - 20060235484 - Stimulation of a stimulation site within the neck or head Methods of applying a stimulus to a stimulation site within the neck or head of a patient include implanting a distal portion of one or more leads adjacent to the stimulation site, forming a loop with a proximal portion of the one or more leads, and securing the distal and ... 10/12/06 - 20060229687 - Shifting between electrode combinations in electrical stimulation device In general, the invention is directed to techniques for shifting between two electrode combinations. An amplitude of a first electrode combination is incrementally decreased while an amplitude of a second, or subsequent, electrode combination is concurrently incrementally increased. The stimulation pulses of the first and second electrode combinations are delivered ... 10/05/06 - 20060224210 - Apparatus for diagnosing musclar pain and method of using same Apparatus and method for diagnosing a source of muscular pain, wherein the apparatus includes a housing, an electrical signal generator mounted within the housing, and a pair of electrodes, one of which is mounted on one end of the housing and the other of which is mounted on an opposite ... 09/14/06 - 20060206166 - Peripheral nerve stimulation An apparatus for treating pain by electrical stimulation is disclosed. A lead is placed subcutaneously in the region of pain. The subcutaneous tissue is electrically stimulated to cause paresthesia. The method encompasses subcutaneous placement of an electrical lead near the region of pain and subsequent electrical stimulation of the tissue ... 09/14/06 - 20060206165 - Occipital nerve stimulation to treat headaches and other conditions A method of treating headaches includes stimulating a nerve in a patient's head with an electrode implanted over the skull on a posterior or superior portion of the patient's head to alleviate headache pain. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206164 - Device for percutaneous nerve stimulation The present invention provides a novel device for portable percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and electro-acupuncture. In the preferred embodiment, the device consists of a needle/electrode holder that has a linear electrode/needle guide channel and a power supply channel that intersects with the needle/electrode guide channel and serves for insertion of ... 09/14/06 - 20060206163 - Neurostimulation site screening The disclosure describes a process for non-invasively screening a patient to select a stimulation site for treatment of head, neck or facial pain and tension symptoms caused by disorders such as occipital neuralgia. The screening process involves application of a transcutaneous stimulation screening device, a percutaneous micro-electrode screening device, and ... 09/14/06 - 20060206162 - Implantable neurostimulator device The disclosure describes an implantable neurostimulator device for delivery of neurostimulation to treat head, neck, or facial pain or tension, including pain or tension caused by occipital neuralgia. The device may be a neurostimulation device having a miniaturized housing with a low profile that permits subcutaneous implantation at a stimulation ... 08/31/06 - 20060195158 - Nerve stimulator and method This invention presents a device, and the method it implements, which is an improvement in the design of nerve stimulators. Like conventional stimulators, it uses a percutaneous, insulated needle for the performance of therapeutic interventions targeting nerves. The improvement comprises offering an option for either constant current or constant voltage, ... 08/31/06 - 20060195157 - Apparatus and method for modulating neurochemical levels in the brain The present invention provides a method for modulating or regulating levels of a neurochemical in an individual using deep brain stimulation. More particularly, the invention relates to a method of treating neurological and psychiatric diseases by providing a feedback loop capable of maintaining central and/or peripheral nervous system neurochemical levels ... 08/24/06 - 20060190057 - Synthetic traveling wave transcutaneous electrical stimulation device A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device for treating a user's lower back pain or discomfort is provided. The inventive device comprises a stimulation pad with an array of electrodes therein. A controller communicates with the electrodes to energize/de-energize them in a patterned, sequential manner. The patterned actuation of the electrodes ... 07/27/06 - 20060167526 - Medical apparatus and system for preventing and treating diseases Medical apparatus and system are provided for preventing and treating diseases by the medical apparatus comprising body-thing, electronic pulse device, medical magnet slices, herbal medicine gauze pads and nano-micro-biochemical-textile. The medical apparatus is made in various types such as cap, eyeshade, waistband, knee-band, wristband based on different position of human ... 07/27/06 - 20060167525 - Method of stimulating multiple sites A method of stimulating two sites of neurological tissue. A lead is implanted in or near the spinal column. The lead has a first set of at least two electrodes and a second set of at least first, second and third electrodes. The first and second electrodes are positioned on ... 07/13/06 - 20060155344 - Delivery device for stimulating the sympathetic nerve chain The present invention provides a device and assembly for electrically and/or chemically stimulating individual ganglion and a plurality of ganglia of the nervous system, and particularly to ganglia of the sympathetic nerve chain. A device is provided that generally wraps around an individual ganglion and conforms to the shape of ... 06/22/06 - 20060136009 - Dental/medical anxiety/phobia remediation protocol A protocol or procedure is provided for lowering sympathetic nervous system arousal in a person in order to prepare that person for a medical or dental procedure. First, a therapeutic dosage of one or more neurotransmitter supplements, such as a gamma aminobutyric acid formulation, a tryptophan-derived neurotransmitter, and dehydroepiandrosterone are ... 05/04/06 - 20060095087 - Method for treating disease using motion style treatment The present invention relates to a method for treating diseases by stimulation of stiff muscles, ligaments, and nerves of the patient, using a motion style treatment (MST). The method comprises applying an acupuncture needle to a relevant and selected acupoint of a target site of the patient body, and motioning ... 04/13/06 - 20060079946 - Method and device for electro-acupuncture The present invention provides a principally novel method and a device for percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and electro-acupuncture. It consists of inserting the needles/electrodes into the prescribed acupuncture/trigger points at slant angles so that the external parts of the needles/electrodes can be secured against the skin of the patient. Although ... 03/16/06 - 20060058856 - Responsive therapy for psychiatric disorders An implantable neurostimulator system for treating psychiatric disorders includes scheduled and responsive therapy capabilities including responsive stimulation applied to the cingulate gyrus of the brain. Methods for treating depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, schizophrenia, and autism and other developmental disorders employ an inventive system ... 03/09/06 - 20060052835 - Methods for stimulating the spinal cord and nervous system Some embodiments of the present invention provide stimulation systems, components and methods for stimulation of the spinal cord and the nervous system. Additional embodiments provide for selective stimulation and/or neuromodulation of one or more dorsal root ganglia through implantation of an electrode on, in or around a dorsal root ganglia. ... 03/09/06 - 20060052834 - Neurostimulation The invention relates to a device for treating a patient for neurological or muscular pain by neurostimulation comprising a pair of electrodes to be applied externally, ie. to the surface of the skin, in the region of the pain and to apply a current of between 0.2 and 12 mA ... 02/23/06 - 20060041285 - Portable unit for treating chronic pain A portable pain treatment unit includes: a first pulse generator configured to deliver pulses in a frequency range typical for interferential treatment; a second pulse generator configured to deliver pulses in the frequency range for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator (TENS) treatment; electrodes operatively connected with the first and second pulse ... 02/09/06 - 20060030899 - System and method for stimulating peripheral nerves to treat pain According to one embodiment, a system for stimulating peripheral nerves in a painful upper chest region of a person's body is provided. The system includes stimulation electrodes adapted to be implanted in tissue proximate a network of peripheral nerve fibers located in and innervating the painful upper chest region and ... 02/09/06 - 20060030898 - Static device The present invention relates to a method and device for creating a static electric charge and using the device to treat ailments in the body. ... 02/02/06 - 20060025832 - System and method for stimulating peripheral nerves to treat pain According to one embodiment, a system for stimulating peripheral nerves in a painful region of a person's limb is provided. The system includes stimulation electrodes adapted to be implanted in tissue proximate a network of peripheral nerve fibers located in and innervating the painful region of the person's limb and ... 02/02/06 - 20060025831 - Potential therapeutic device An electric potential therapy apparatus has been prepared with a plurality of alternating current patterns, made by combining varying voltages, waveforms and frequencies with the passage of time. The user selects one from the alternating patterns in accordance with the user's physical constitution and physical condition, so that an a.c. ... 01/19/06 - 20060015154 - Portable therapeutic device and method for pain relief The invention relates to a method and device of reducing pain and other symptoms in a patient utilizing a non-invasive electrical stimulation device applied over acupuncture points and adjacent nerves of a patient. The non-invasive electrical stimulation device is a portable electrical therapeutic device. The device includes electronic circuitry for ... 01/05/06 - 20060004423 - Methods and systems to provide therapy or alleviate symptoms of chronic headache, transformed migraine, and occipital neuralgia by providing rectangular and/or complex electrical pulses to occipital nerves A method and system for providing rectangular and/or complex electrical pulses to occipital nerves, to provide therapy for at least one of chronic headache, transformed migraine, and occipital neuralgia comprises implantable and external components. Complex electrical pulses comprises pulses which are configured to be one of non-rectangular, multi-level, biphasic, or ... 12/22/05 - 20050283201 - Methods of treating neurological conditions by neuromodulation of interhemispheric fibers Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of a target site of interhemispheric fibers. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infection disease, degenerative disorder, autoimmune disorders, ... 12/15/05 - 20050277996 - Method of reducing pressure in a nucleus pulposus A method for reducing intervertebral pressure is provided. The method includes providing an electrode and a generator. The electrode includes a proximal end and a distal end. The generator is operatively connected to the proximal end of the electrode and is configured to supply radiofrequency current thereto. The method also ... 12/01/05 - 20050267544 - Low frequency stimulator provided in a mobile terminal and method for controlling the same Disclosed is a low frequency stimulator provided in a mobile terminal, which comprises a high-voltage pulse generator for adjusting a voltage of the mobile terminal to a level suitable for low frequency stimulation; an output controller for outputting a voltage output from the high-voltage pulse generator in a unipolar or ... 11/10/05 - 20050251221 - Neural bridge devices and methods for restoring and modulating neural activity The neural bridge devices may be implanted between the endings of severed or damaged nerve cells. The operation of these devices may facilitate restoring conductivity of neural signals or responses within severed or damaged nerve cells. The neural bridge device may also facilitate restoring the movement of cell material between ... 11/03/05 - 20050245989 - Electrical treatment to treat shoulder subluxation A method for treating shoulder subluxation using an implantable device to stimulate the axillary nerve which in turn activates sensory fibers to relieve shoulder pain and activates deltoid muscle to treat disuse atrophy and possibly augment any weakened voluntary movements. Known stimulation devices are either (1) external requiring surface electrodes ... 11/03/05 - 20050245988 - Collecting posture and activity information to evaluate therapy A medical device, programmer, or other computing device may determine values of one or more activity and, in some embodiments, posture metrics for each therapy parameter set used by the medical device to deliver therapy. The metric values for a parameter set are determined based on signals generated by the ... 11/03/05 - 20050245987 - Method for programming implantable device A method for selecting Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) stimulation parameter sets guides a clinician towards an effective set of stimulation parameters. The clinician first evaluates the effectiveness of a small number of trial stimulation parameters sets from a Measurement Table comprising for example, four stimulation parameter sets. Based on the ... 10/27/05 - 20050240244 - Independent therapy programs in an implantable medical device Apparatus and method for independently delivering a plurality of therapy programs in an implantable medical device. A therapy controller configures the device to generate independent pulse trains associated with a plurality of therapy programs and dynamically configures the electrodes to deliver the independent pulse trains to the patient. Once configured, ... 10/27/05 - 20050240243 - System and method for neurological stimulation of peripheral nerves to treat low back pain According to one embodiment, a system for neurological stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers to treat low back pain is provided. The system includes stimulation electrodes adapted to be implanted in tissue proximate a network of peripheral nerve fibers located in and innervating a painful region of the low back area ... 09/29/05 - 20050216070 - Method and system for providing therapy for migraine/chronic headache by providing electrical pulses to vagus nerve(s) A method and system for providing predetermined electrical pulses for neuromodulating vagus nerve(s) or its branches to provide therapy for migraine/chronic headache, comprises implantable and external components. The electrical pulses to vagus nerve(s) may be stimulating and/or blocking. The pulsed electrical stimulation/blocking to vagus nerve(s) may be provided using one ... 09/15/05 - 20050203586 - Electro-stimulating massage confiner An electro-stimulating massage confiner wholly or partially made by a flexible conducting fiber material is shaped to fit body portions, such as in a glove or a sock form. The massage confiner may consist of a single-polar conducting area or a pair or more than a pair of bipolar conducting ... 09/15/05 - 20050203585 - Water electrode An electrode for a foot bath allows a small current to create a tingle in your feet. The AC/DC power supply and stainless steel electrode is portable for use in any plastic tub or bowl. A stand allows use in metal bowl. ... 08/25/05 - 20050187591 - Electro therapy method and apparatus An apparatus for providing therapeutic electric current to a treatment site of a patient is disclosed, which provides two oscillating or pulsing electric alternating currents, of frequencies which differ from each other by as little as 1 Hz and up to about 250 Hz, but each being of frequency at ... 08/11/05 - 20050177202 - Method and apparatus for veterinary rf pain management A method and apparatus for reducing chronic pain in animals by radio frequency (RF) neuromodulation of peripheral nerves of the animal is disclosed. The method, using the disclosed apparatus, comprises the steps of attaching active and dispersive percutaneous probes at respective active and dispersive locations relative to a peripheral nerve ... 08/11/05 - 20050177201 - Probe insertion pain reduction method and device In general the invention features inserting a probe element through the skin by moving the probe element along a penetration path in a series of incremental movements. The incremental movements produce incremental penetrations of the skin that are each small enough not to produce substantial stimulation of nerve axons (e.g., ... 07/28/05 - 20050165459 - Apparatus for diminishing pain and/or hemorrhage caused by a therapeutic injection, body tissue sampling or injury A device couples the use of Trans Epithelial Nerve Stimulation with the administration of a therapeutic injection, such as an immunization, or tissue sampling procedure such as deriving a blood sample. By such an arrangement, the discomfort associated with these procedures may be considerably reduced or eliminated, thereby improving compliance ... 07/07/05 - 20050149145 - Enhanced device for diminishing or eliminating the pain caused by superficial therapeutic injection or superficial body tissue sampling or the pain from a superficial injury as well as for the reduction of hemorrhage from an injured area A device is disclosed which couples the use of Trans Epithelial Nerve Stimulation with the administration of a therapeutic injection, such as an immunization, or tissue sampling procedure such as deriving a blood sample. By such an arrangement the discomfort associated with these procedures may be considerably reduced or eliminated, ... 06/30/05 - 20050143789 - Methods and systems for stimulating a peripheral nerve to treat chronic pain Methods of treating chronic pain within a patient include applying at least one stimulus to a peripheral nerve within the patient with an implanted system control unit in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. The stimulus is configured to treat the chronic pain. Systems for treating chronic pain within ... 06/30/05 - 20050143788 - Treatment of female fertility conditions through modulation of the autonomic nervous system Methods are provided for treating a subject for a fertility condition. In accordance with the subject methods, at least a portion of a subject's autonomic nervous system is modulated to increase the sympathetic activity/parasympathetic activity ratio in a manner that is effective to treat the subject for the condition. Embodiments ... 06/02/05 - 20050119713 - Methods for implanting a spinal cord stimulator Methods for implanting spinal cord stimulators are provided, including implanting at least one electrode in an anterolateral area of the spine. Stimulation provided by the stimulator(s) may be used to treat patients with chronic pain. The stimulator(s) use a power source/storage device, such as a rechargeable battery. Periodic recharging of ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |