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Method for treating urinary incontinence and an apparatus therefor

  • US 5,984,854 A
  • Filed: 02/14/1997
  • Issued: 11/16/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for treating incontinence comprising the steps of:

  • applying at least one magnetic stimulation coil to a body portion of a patient,providing at least one of a train and successive of current pulses to the magnetic stimulation coils, thereby producing magnetic flux pulses, andselecting a region to be stimulated by an eddy current induced by the magnetic flux pulses in a portion of the physiological body from the group consisting of branches from 2nd to 4th sacral nerves, the pelvic floor muscle group, pudendal nerve, external urethral muscle, tibial nerve, dorsal nerve of penis and, dorsal nerve of clitoris by developing magnetic flux from an anal region.

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