PARESTHESIA-FREE SPINAL CORD STIMULATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:EP4292644A3

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-13

    申请号:EP23201841.6

    申请日:2018-08-10

    IPC分类号: A61N1/05 A61N1/36 A61N1/372

    摘要: Methods and systems for testing and treating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients are disclosed. Patients are eventually treated with sub-perception (paresthesia free) therapy. However, supra-perception stimulation is used during "sweet spot searching" during which active electrodes are selected for the patient. This allows sweet spot searching to occur much more quickly and without the need to wash in the various electrode combinations that are tried. After selecting electrodes using supra-perception therapy, therapy is titrated to sub-perception levels using the selected electrodes. Such sub-perception therapy has been investigated using pulses at or below 10 kHz, and it has been determined that a statistically significant correlation exists between pulse width (PW) and frequency (F) in this frequency range at which SCS patients experience significant reduction in symptoms such as back pain. Beneficially, sub-perception stimulation at such low frequencies significantly lowers power consumption in the patient's neurostimulator.

    PARESTHESIA-FREE SPINAL CORD STIMULATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:EP4292644A2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-20

    申请号:EP23201841.6

    申请日:2018-08-10

    IPC分类号: A61N1/372

    摘要: Methods and systems for testing and treating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients are disclosed. Patients are eventually treated with sub-perception (paresthesia free) therapy. However, supra-perception stimulation is used during "sweet spot searching" during which active electrodes are selected for the patient. This allows sweet spot searching to occur much more quickly and without the need to wash in the various electrode combinations that are tried. After selecting electrodes using supra-perception therapy, therapy is titrated to sub-perception levels using the selected electrodes. Such sub-perception therapy has been investigated using pulses at or below 10 kHz, and it has been determined that a statistically significant correlation exists between pulse width (PW) and frequency (F) in this frequency range at which SCS patients experience significant reduction in symptoms such as back pain. Beneficially, sub-perception stimulation at such low frequencies significantly lowers power consumption in the patient's neurostimulator.

    PARESTHESIA-FREE SPINAL CORD STIMULATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:EP4049711A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-31

    申请号:EP22156488.3

    申请日:2018-08-10

    IPC分类号: A61N1/05 A61N1/36 A61N1/372

    摘要: Methods and systems for testing and treating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients are disclosed. Patients are eventually treated with sub-perception (paresthesia free) therapy. However, supra-perception stimulation is used during "sweet spot searching" during which active electrodes are selected for the patient. This allows sweet spot searching to occur much more quickly and without the need to wash in the various electrode combinations that are tried. After selecting electrodes using supra-perception therapy, therapy is titrated to sub-perception levels using the selected electrodes. Such sub-perception therapy has been investigated using pulses at or below 10 kHz, and it has been determined that a statistically significant correlation exists between pulse width (PW) and frequency (F) in this frequency range at which SCS patients experience significant reduction in symptoms such as back pain. Beneficially, sub-perception stimulation at such low frequencies significantly lowers power consumption in the patient's neurostimulator.

    TOOLS TO ASSIST SPINAL CORD STIMULATION SELF-REPROGRAMMING

    公开(公告)号:EP4252834A3

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-13

    申请号:EP23188984.1

    申请日:2020-01-13

    摘要: Methods and systems for assisting a patient to reprogram parameters of an implantable medical device, such as a spinal cord stimulator, are disclosed. A patient may use an external controller, which may be either a dedicated device or a personal computing device, to interact with their implantable medical device and evaluate the efficacy of their therapy. If the efficacy diminishes, the patient may use their external controller to adjust either the neural dosage (i.e., frequency, pulse width, and/or amplitude) and/or the location at which stimulation is provided. A reprogramming assistant is provided, which guides the patient in adjusting their stimulation using their external controller. The patient may use supra-perception or sub-perception stimulation for the adjustment. The implantable medical device may include pre-programmed "rescue programs" to assist the patient in recovering the efficacy of their therapy.

    SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING PRESCRIBED NEUROMODULATION DOSE

    公开(公告)号:EP4233996A3

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-08

    申请号:EP23178615.3

    申请日:2020-01-13

    摘要: The present invention relates to a system for providing stimulation to a patient, the system comprising: an implantable stimulator device, ISD, that is implantable in the patient and an external controller configured to control the implantable stimulator device, wherein the external controller is configured to track instances when the patient uses the external controller to instruct the ISD to issue a bolus of stimulation, wherein the bolus of stimulation comprises active stimulation for a first period of time and wherein after the first period of time the ISD provides no stimulation for a second period of time, correlate the tracked instances with one or more predictors indicative of a need for stimulation, determining an occurrence of one or more of the predictors, and in response to the occurrence, (i) prompt the patient to issue a bolus of stimulation; or (ii) automatically instructing the ISD to issue a bolus of stimulation.