Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research

Doug Kuschner

Joseph H Schulman

John Charles Gord

Lee Jay Mandell

Ross Davis

Robert Dan Dell

Morten Hansen

Gregoire Cosendai

Anne Marie Ripley

Ruth Turk

Jane Burridge

Scott V Notley

Ytizhak Zilberman

A system and method that facilitates stimulating neural pathways, e.g., muscles and/or associated nerves, of a patient's body for the purpose of therapeutic medical treatment by rehabilitating weakened muscles and using neuroplasticity to retrain sequential muscle movements and/or to provide the ability to directly deliver functional motor movements. Use of the present invention is of particular value for treating a patient following a stroke. More particularly, such systems are characterized by a plurality of discrete devices, preferably battery powered but may alternatively include RF-powered devices as well or in combination, configured for implanting within a patient's body via injection, each device being configured to affect a parameter, e.g., via nerve and/or muscle stimulation and/or to sense a body parameter, e.g., temperature, Ocontent, physical position, electrical potential, etc., that operate under control of a system controller that coordinates the sequential stimulation via wireless commands to the implanted devices.

System and method suitable for treatment of a patient with a neurological deficit by sequentially stimulating neural pathways using a system of discrete implantable medical devices

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Santa Clarita, CA, United States of America

Doug Kuschner