Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods to place one or more leads in tissue to electrically stimulate nerves of passage to treat pain
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Application No.: US16251482Application Date: 2019-01-18
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Publication No.: US11027123B2Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Joseph W. Boggs , Rosemary H. Zang
- Applicant: SPR THERAPEUTICS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US OH Cleveland
- Assignee: SPR THERAPEUTICS, INC.
- Current Assignee: SPR THERAPEUTICS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Cleveland
- Agency: McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Main IPC: A61N1/05
- IPC: A61N1/05 ; A61N1/36 ; A61N1/04 ; A61B5/06

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for applying electrical stimulation to a body by an electrode spaced from a target nerve of passage. It has been discovered that pain felt, or perceived to be felt, in a given region of the body can be treated by stimulating muscle close to a “nerve of passage” in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt, such as in a case of post-amputation residual limb pain, or purportedly felt in the case of post-amputation phantom limb pain.
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