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Method and apparatus for drug free neurostimulation

  • US 4,865,048 A
  • Filed: 12/31/1987
  • Issued: 09/12/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of relieving a patient'"'"'s suffering due to narcotic and alcohol withdrawal, which comprises:

  • a. applying a train of electrical pulses to the patient'"'"'s mastoid processes, said electrical pulses comprised of square waves and spikes being applied to each of said mastoid processes simultaneously, said square waves and spikes being applied to each of said mastoid processes with opposite polarity, said square waves electrical pulses having a pulse width of one millisecond and an amplitude, at the source, of 20 volts and lower and a pulse repetition rate of 100 Hertz, said electrical spikes have an amplitude, at the source, of seventy volts with a polarity opposite to said square wave puleses wherein a spike pulse follows immediately upon the conclusion of each of said square wave pulses; and

    b. controlling the waveform and frequency of said pulses.

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