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Methods, systems, and devices for pairing vagus nerve stimulation with motor therapy in stroke patients

  • US 9,533,152 B2
  • Filed: 11/21/2014
  • Issued: 01/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • treating motor deficits via the actions of;

    directing a patient to execute a plurality of therapeutic motions; and

    applying a plurality of vagus nerve stimulation pulse trains of electrical stimulation energy to the patient, respective trains of the plurality of trains being in temporal proximity to execution of respective therapeutic motions of the plurality of therapeutic motions exposed to the patient to improve the patient'"'"'s motor deficits,wherein the pulse trains are no longer than about 500 milliseconds in duration.

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