Transcutaneous nerve and muscle stimulator and method of using the same
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1. A transcutaneous electrical stimulator system for use with a computer, comprising:
- a small, lightweight, portable, external, programmable transcutaneous electrical stimulator that provides multiple electrical stimulation therapies to a patient through the patient'"'"'s skin, the stimulator including persistent, modifiable memory programmable by a practitioner for prescribing multiple electrical stimulation therapies for the patient; and
a programming pod configured to interface with the stimulator and the computer to program multiple stimulation therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator.
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Abstract
A transcutaneous electrical stimulator system includes a small, lightweight, portable, external, programmable transcutaneous electrical stimulator that provides multiple electrical stimulation therapies to a patient through the patient'"'"'s skin. The stimulator includes persistent, modifiable memory programmable by a practitioner for prescribing multiple electrical stimulation therapies for the patient. A programming pod is configured to interface with the stimulator and a computer to program multiple stimulation therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator.
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1. A transcutaneous electrical stimulator system for use with a computer, comprising:
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a small, lightweight, portable, external, programmable transcutaneous electrical stimulator that provides multiple electrical stimulation therapies to a patient through the patient'"'"'s skin, the stimulator including persistent, modifiable memory programmable by a practitioner for prescribing multiple electrical stimulation therapies for the patient; and
a programming pod configured to interface with the stimulator and the computer to program multiple stimulation therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of programming multiple electrical stimulation therapies into a transcutaneous electrical stimulator at a practitioner location, comprising:
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providing at the practitioner location a small, lightweight, portable, external, programmable transcutaneous electrical stimulator that provides multiple electrical stimulation therapies to a patient through the patient'"'"'s skin, the stimulator including persistent, modifiable memory programmable by a practitioner for prescribing multiple electrical stimulation therapies for the patient;
providing at the practitioner location a programming pod interfaced with the stimulator to program multiple stimulation therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator;
providing at the practitioner location a computer interfaced with the programming pod to program multiple stimulation therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator via the programming pod;
using the computer at the practitioner location to program multiple therapies into the persistent, modifiable memory of the stimulator via the programming pod. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer readable medium having stored thereon one or more sequences of instructions for causing one or more microprocessors to perform the steps for programming multiple electrical stimulation therapies into a transcutaneous electrical
selecting a specific therapy to be programmed out of multiple sequential electrical stimulation therapies; -
selecting one of multiple different types of predetermined therapies and a custom therapy;
selecting a type of polarity for the stimulator;
selecting a time duration of the therapy;
selecting an idle time duration between therapies;
selecting the next specific therapy to be programmed out of multiple sequential electrical stimulation therapies and repeating the above steps until all the therapies of the multiple sequential electrical stimulation therapies are input;
selecting one of a repeat function to cause the stimulator to cycle through multiple therapies then repeat and a terminate function to cause the stimulator to cycle through multiple therapies then stop; and
selecting a program function to cause the programming pod to program the multiple electrical stimulation therapies into the transcutaneous electrical stimulator.
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