SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING SHOULDER PAIN RELATED TO SUBACROMIAL IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME

• US 20140046416A1
• Filed: 12/05/2011
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SPR Therapeutics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SPR Therapeutics, LLC (SPR Therapeutics, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bennett, Maria E., Chae, John, Boggs, Joseph W. II
• Granted Patent: US 8,886,337 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/116
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/025 Digital circuitry features of electrotherapy devices, e.g. memory, clocks, processors
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0456 Specially adapted for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [TENS]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0502 Skin piercing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0504 Subcutaneous electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0551 Spinal or peripheral nerve electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36071 Pain

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for treating chronic pain occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome in a human body. A system is provided to deliver percutaneous electrical stimulation through at least one electrode to neurological motor points of the posterior and middle deltoid muscles to mediate such pain. One-time, continued and/or periodic dosing of treatment methods according to the present invention may result in a change to central nervous system maladaptive neuroplasticity.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

placing an electrode in subepidermal tissue of a human; and

delivering electrical stimulation through the electrode,

wherein, after the delivering step, a level of pain perceived by the human, wherein the pain was caused by or occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome, is reduced.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein during the delivering step, a level of pain perceived by the human, wherein the pain was caused by or occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome, is reduced.