Extended pain relief via high frequency spinal cord modulation, and associated systems and methods
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1. A patient treatment method, comprising:
- selecting a neural modulation site to include a dorsal horn of a spinal cord of the patient; and
desensitizing a wide dynamic range neuron at the dorsal horn by applying to the dorsal horn a non-paresthesia producing neural modulation signal having a signal frequency in a range of from about 1.5 kHz to about 100 kHz, to address patient pain, the pain being addressed for a period of time after at least reducing an intensity of the signal, the period of time being at least one tenth of one second.
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Abstract
Extended pain relief via high frequency spinal cord modulation, and associated systems and methods. A method for treating a patient in accordance with a particular embodiment includes selecting a neural modulation site to include at least one of a dorsal root entry zone and dorsal horn of the patient'"'"'s spinal cord, and selecting parameters of a neural modulation signal to reduce patient pain for a period of time after ceasing delivery of the signals, the period of time being at least one tenth of one second.
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1. A patient treatment method, comprising:
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selecting a neural modulation site to include a dorsal horn of a spinal cord of the patient; and desensitizing a wide dynamic range neuron at the dorsal horn by applying to the dorsal horn a non-paresthesia producing neural modulation signal having a signal frequency in a range of from about 1.5 kHz to about 100 kHz, to address patient pain, the pain being addressed for a period of time after at least reducing an intensity of the signal, the period of time being at least one tenth of one second. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A patient treatment method, comprising:
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selecting a neural modulation site to include a dorsal horn of a spinal cord of the patient; and desensitizing a wide dynamic range neuron at the dorsal horn by applying to the dorsal horn a non-paresthesia producing neural modulation signal having a frequency of from about 3 kHz to about 100 kHz to reduce patient pain. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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