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Method for providing directional therapy to skeletal joints

  • US 8,915,949 B2
  • Filed: 05/17/2010
  • Issued: 12/23/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for treating a medical condition associated with a spinal joint within a body of a patient, comprising:

  • positioning a directional treatment assembly at a location external to all of the vertebral bodies and all of the intervertebral discs of a spine;

    using the directional treatment assembly at the external location, directionally delivering a therapeutic level of energy in a first direction into a region of tissue in a vertebral body associated with the spinal joint from the external location; and

    denervating nociceptive fibers or cells within said region of tissue.

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