Extended pain relief via high frequency spinal cord modulation, and associated systems and methods
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1. A method of treating pain in a patient, comprising:
- applying to a dorsal horn of the patient a non-paresthesia-producing neural modulation signal having a signal frequency in a frequency range of from 1.5 kHz to 100 kHz, to thereby desensitize one or more wide dynamic range neurons in the dorsal horn.
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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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41 Claims
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1. A method of treating pain in a patient, comprising:
applying to a dorsal horn of the patient a non-paresthesia-producing neural modulation signal having a signal frequency in a frequency range of from 1.5 kHz to 100 kHz, to thereby desensitize one or more wide dynamic range neurons in the dorsal horn. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of treating pain in a patient, comprising:
applying to a dorsal horn of the patient a non-paresthesia-producing neural modulation signal having; a signal frequency in a frequency range of from 5 kHz to 15 kHz, a pulse width in a pulse width range of from 10 microseconds to 333 microseconds, and an amplitude in an amplitude range of 0.5 mA to 10 mA, to thereby desensitize one or more wide dynamic range neurons in the dorsal horn. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. A method of treating pain in a patient, comprising:
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programming a pulse generator to generate a non-paresthesia-producing neural modulation signal having a signal frequency in a frequency range of from 1.5 kHz to 100 kHz; and delivering the neural modulation signal to a dorsal horn of the patient via an implanted signal delivery device, thereby desensitizing one or more wide dynamic range neurons in the dorsal horn. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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