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- Patent Title: Treatment of phantom limb pain and diabetic neuropathy pain, and increasing prosthetic control, by stimulation of dorsal rootlets and lateral spinal cord
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Application No.: US16845691Application Date: 2020-04-10
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Publication No.: US11433238B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Lee Erik Bartholomew Fisher , Robert A. Gaunt , Douglas J. Weber
- Applicant: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Applicant Address: US PA Pittsburgh
- Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Current Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Pittsburgh
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Main IPC: A61N1/36
- IPC: A61N1/36 ; A61F2/72 ; A61F2/58 ; A61F2/66 ; A61B5/00
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of reducing phantom limb pain or diabetic neuropathy pain, and increasing prosthetic control, by stimulating dorsal spinal rootlets and/or lateral spinal cord adjacent to the dorsal rootlets, of sensory neurons innervating the limb with the phantom limb pain or diabetic neuropathy pain, or the prosthetic.
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