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Enhanced therapeutic stimulus for non-nutritive suck entrainment system and method

  • US 9,037,266 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2012
  • Issued: 05/19/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A non-transitory system executable by a processor for stimulating a CPG and a trigeminal nerve in a human brain, such stimulation influencing brain response or development including repair, control of respiration, control of NNS, mastication, and combinations thereof, in a human brain comprising:

  • an assessment module to;

    record a pressure signal received from a pressure transducer in an orofacial stimulator; and

    ,generate a display signal to display assessment data based on the received pressure signal;

    a feature extraction module to;

    identify one or more components of a patient'"'"'s non-nutritive suck pattern in the pressure signal;

    determine a symmetry of the patient'"'"'s non-nutritive suck pattern;

    determine a repetition of the patient'"'"'s non-nutritive suck pattern; and

    ,assign a spatiotemporal index value to the patient'"'"'s non-nutritive suck pattern, the spatiotemporal index value indicating an overall rating of the patient'"'"'s non-nutritive suck pattern; and

    ,a therapy module to;

    generate a therapeutic pressure pulse signal comprising a base frequency signal further comprising two or more pressure pulses, wherein each pressure pulse causes a displacement of a pacifier surface contacted by the lip and the mouth of the patient, wherein each of the two or more pressure pulses has a square wave profile and are separated by an interval between 500 milliseconds and 650 milliseconds in duration;

    generate a therapeutic pressure profile signal comprising at least one of the therapeutic pressure pulse signals; and

    ,transmit the therapeutic pressure pulse profile signal to the orofacial stimulator.

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