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7613518 Interferential and neuromuscular electrical stimulation system and apparatus  
A multi-mode electrical therapeutic stimulation system. The system includes circuitry for providing interferential stimulation, muscle stimulation, and pulsed DC stimulation with an automatic...
7610100 Methods and systems for treating osteoarthritis  
Methods of treating osteoarthritis include applying at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient with an implanted system control unit in accordance with one or more stimulation...
7610096 Methods for treating central nervous system damage  
Methods for the treatment of CNS damage are described, and include inducing in a subject in need of such treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of functional electronic stimulation (FES)...
7593776 Flexible communication and control protocol for a wireless sensor and microstimulator network  
A novel system and method for restoring functional movement of a paralyzed limb(s) or a prosthetic device. Stimulating one or more muscles of a patient using an implanted neuromuscular implants and...
7593775 Sports equipment with resonant muscle stimulator for developing muscle strength  
A method and apparatus include a therapeutic or developmental instrument that includes hardware and/or software for stimulating a muscle. Such an instrument may comprise, for instance, a golf club,...
7590455 Controlling therapy based on sleep quality  
A medical device, such as an implantable medical device (IMD), determines values for one or more metrics that indicate the quality of a patient's sleep, and controls delivery of a therapy based on...
7590453 Collecting activity information to evaluate incontinence therapy  
A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. The medical device may periodically determine an activity level of the patient, and associate each determined activity level with a current therapy...
7587245 Electronic neural resonator  
A procedure electrically stimulates a nerve or group of nerves. Unlike conventional systems this procedure is tuned to target a large or small group of neurons using noninvasive electromagnetic...
7582062 Methods of neural centre location and electrode placement in the central nervous system  
A method of locating the position of a selected neural centre in the central nervous system of an animal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (a) stimulating neurons at a first central...
7578819 Spinal access and neural localization  
A method in which a probe is advanced between a neural tissue structure and a non-neural tissue structure such as the intervertebral foramen. The probe includes electrodes on opposite surfaces....
7571002 Portable percutaneous assemblies, systems and methods for providing highly selective functional or therapeutic neuromuscular stimulation  
Neuromuscular stimulation assemblies, systems, and methods make possible the providing of short-term therapy or diagnostic testing by providing electrical connections between muscles or nerves...
7565200 Systems and methods for selecting stimulation sites and applying treatment, including treatment of symptoms of Parkinson's disease, other movement disorders, and/or drug side effects  
Methods and systems for treating movement disorders are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment can include determining that the movement disorder affects the patient's gait, oral...
7555346 Implantable pulse generator having current steering means  
An implantable pulse generator includes a current steering capability that allows a clinician or patient to quickly determine a desired electrode stimulation pattern, including which electrodes of...
7542804 Neuromuscular stimulation to avoid pulmonary embolisms  
A system and method that provide a prophylactic treatment to a person, e.g., a patient, to avoid the occurrence of pulmonary embolisms by the system providing neuromuscular stimulation to a...
7532936 Programmable switching device for implantable device  
A device and method for generating electrical stimulation. The implantable device includes a programmable switching device or array that receives at least one pulse generator output coupled through...
7522061 External voiding sensor system  
The disclosure describes an external sensor attached to an undergarment worn by a patient that detects voiding information. The sensor stores the voiding information in a voiding log and transmits...
7519431 Shifting between electrode combinations in electrical stimulation device  
The disclosure 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...
7519427 Low frequency medical device, method therefor, program and recording medium  
Quantity and time for medical operation are measured after starting the medical operation (step S 1 ). Parameters in a parameter protection mode and parameters in a standard mode are compared so as...
7505815 Neurostimulation therapy usage diagnostics  
An implantable medical device delivers neurostimulation therapy to a patient according to a parameter set. A parameter set may consist of a number of programs that are delivered substantially...
7502652 Method of routing electrical current to bodily tissues via implanted passive conductors  
The invention provides an implant, system and method for electrically stimulating a target tissue to either activate or block neural impulses. The implant provides a conductive pathway for a...
7499746 Automated adaptive muscle stimulation method and apparatus  
An automated adaptive muscle stimulation system and method are disclosed. The stimulation system includes at least one electrode assembly adapted to deliver a muscle stimulation signal to the...
7471984 Low-frequency treatment device  
A low-frequency treatment device includes electrodes to which a low-frequency pulse signal is supplied so as to apply an electric stimulus to a living body; a section for presetting a number of...
7460911 System and method suitable for treatment of a patient with a neurological deficit by sequentially stimulating neural pathways using a system of discrete implantable medical devices  
A system and method that facilitates stimulating neural pathways, e.g., muscles and/or associated nerves, of a patient's body for the purpose of therapeutic medical treatment by rehabilitating...
7433738 Device for muscle stimulation  
The invention relates to a device for muscle stimulation, said device comprising a pulse generator unit ( 9 ) for producing and sending an electrical stimulation pulse; a control unit ( 10 ) for...
7424322 Method and apparatus for stimulus artifact suppression  
Amplification of an evoked potential signal is carried out utilizing a high pass filter implemented as an integrator in a feedback loop which drives the DC offset voltage to zero. As a result, the...
7403821 Method and implantable systems for neural sensing and nerve stimulation  
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for the detection of neural or muscular activity, analysis of the signals and the subsequent stimulating of neural or muscular tissue based...
7381192 Therapeutic and/or training device for a person's lower limbs using a mechanical orthetic device and a neuromuscular stimulation device  
The invention concerns a therapeutic device comprising a mechanical orthotic element ( 2, 3, 4 ) designed to constitute a contact surface with at least the patient's lower limbs and a neuromuscular...
7376467 Portable assemblies, systems and methods for providing functional or therapeutic neuromuscular stimulation  
Neuromuscular stimulation assemblies, systems, and methods make possible the providing of short-term therapy or diagnostic testing by providing electrical connections between muscles or nerves...
7373204 Implantable device and method for treatment of hypertension  
A method and apparatus for treatment of hypertension with electrostimulation of peripheral nerves. Treatment is performed by periodically stimulating a nerve such as a median nerve. Apparatus for...
7366572 Controlling therapy based on sleep quality  
A medical device, such as an implantable medical device (IMD), determines values for one or more metrics that indicate the quality of a patient's sleep, and controls delivery of a therapy based on...
7349739 Method and apparatus for neurophysiologic performance  
The invention features methods and apparatus for enhancing neurophysiologic performance, such as sensorimotor control and neuroplasticity. A preferred method involves inputting bias signals to...
7346396 Interface to FES control system  
A functional electrical stimulation system ( 30 ) for controlling the movement of a portion of a body of a subject ( 12 ), such as the subject's legs. The system ( 30 ) comprises a sensor ( 60 )...
7337007 Surface neuroprosthetic device having a locating system  
A surface neuroprosthetic device for functional electrical stimulation (FES) having a locating system for locating the device on to a limb segment of a user, and a method therefor, the device...
7333857 Treatment of pain  
The method disclosed herein entails spinal cord stimulation via electrodes placed directly into the dorsal horn, dorsal column, spinothalamic tract, nucleus cuneatus, nucleus gracilis, spinal tract...
7324853 Nerve stimulation for treating spasticity, tremor, muscle weakness, and other motor disorders  
A method for treating spasticity of a subject is provided, including driving a current into a nerve of the subject that includes one or more sensory fibers, and configuring the current so as to...
7319902 Method and device for electrochemical rejuvenation of skin and underlying tissue, and muscle building  
A method and device are disclosed for using electrochemistry to rejuvenate skin and underlying tissue and to build and strengthen muscles by applying pulses of DC electrical charge, at a duration...
7302296 Electrical stimulation system and methods for treating phantom limb pain and for providing sensory feedback to an amputee from a prosthetic limb  
This invention relates to a system and methods for relieving phantomlimb pain in amputees, and for providing an amputee with sensory feedback from a prosthetic limb. The system employs implantable...
7295881 Nerve-branch-specific action-potential activation, inhibition, and monitoring  
A dual electrode arrangement, is provided, wherein two, preferably unidirectional, electrode configurations flank a nerve junction from which a preselected nerve branch issues, proximally and...
7280871 Muscle stimulation systems  
A control system for controlled exercise controls a functional electrical stimulation (FES) system which applies electrical signals to muscle groups of a user such as a user having a disability;...
7266412 Generation of multiple neurostimulation therapy programs  
Generation of multiple neurostimulation programs for delivery of neurostimulation therapy to a patient involves generation of a base program and one or more patient condition algorithms. The base...
7260436 Implantable networked neural system  
A neural prosthesis includes a centralized device that can provide power, data, and clock signals to one or more individual neural prosthesis subsystems. Each subsystem may include a number of...
7257448 Apparatus for stimulating a muscle of a subject  
A method and apparatus for stimulating a muscle of a subject are provided. The apparatus comprises a signal generator for generating an electrical pulse signal of a frequency and a current...
7239921 Housing for an implantable medical device  
A housing for an implantable medical device in the shape of a hollow magnetic field concentrating tube about which an electrically conductive wire coil is wound and within which medical device...
7239918 Implantable pulse generator for providing functional and/or therapeutic stimulation of muscles and/or nerves and/or central nervous system tissue  
Improved assemblies, systems, and methods provide an implantable pulse generator for prosthetic or therapeutic stimulation of muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination....
7236832 Neuromuscular monitoring using phonomyography  
A neuromuscular monitoring system comprises at least one neurostimulator to apply muscle-activating stimulation signals to a patient's body via at least one electrode, and at least one pressure...
7228180 Methods for treating victims of cerebrovascular disease  
The current invention provides novel methods for treating victims of cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke. The methods of the current invention rehabilitate weakened and atrophied muscles by...
7225016 Implantable medical device with nerve signal sensing  
An implantable medical device which has a sensor that provides a waveform to an energy accumulator, such as a capacitor. The waveform is representative of electrical activity from a nerve. The...
7221980 Electrostimulation system with electromyographic and visual biofeedback  
The device of the present invention provided an electrostimulation system with electromyographic and visual biofeed back for sensing electromyographic impulses and facilitating muscular activity....
7209788 Closed loop brain machine interface  
A closed loop brain-machine interface is disclosed. The closed loop brain-machine interface translates one or more neural signals into a movement, or a series of movements, performed by a machine....
7203548 Cavernous nerve stimulation via unidirectional propagation of action potentials  
Methods of using unidirectionally propagating action potentials (UPAPs) for cavernous nerve stimulation and for certain disorders are provided. Stimulators capable of creating such UPAPs include,...
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