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SELECTIVE HIGH FREQUENCY SPINAL CORD STIMULATION FOR INHIBITING PAIN WITH REDUCED SIDE EFFECTS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS

  • US 20130110196A1
  • Filed: 12/21/2012
  • Published: 05/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for configuring a signal generator to deliver a therapy signal to a patient'"'"'s spinal cord region, wherein the signal generator is electrically coupleable to at least one implantable signal delivery device, and wherein the implantable signal delivery device is implantable proximate to a vertebral level between about T9 and about T12 in the patient'"'"'s spinal cord region, the method comprising:

  • (1) identifying or instructing identification of a frequency for a therapy signal as one that at least partially reduces the patient'"'"'s sensation of pain without generating paresthesia, wherein the frequency is in a frequency range of from about 3 kHz to about 20 kHz; and

    (2) programming or instructing the programming of the signal generator to(a) generate the therapy signal, wherein at least a portion of the therapy signal is at the identified frequency, and wherein at least a portion of the therapy signal isa bi-phasic square-wave witha current amplitude in an amplitude range of from about 0.5 mA to about 4 mA, anda pulse width between about 25 microseconds and about 166 microseconds; and

    (b) deliver the therapy signal via the at least one implantable signal delivery device.

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