Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation

Mainstay Medical Limited

Kristen N Jaax

Rafael Carbunaru

Todd K Whitehurst

Andrew DiGiore

Brett Daniel Schleicher

Courtney C Lane

James Carl Makous

Greg Baldwin

Michael A Moffitt

Allison M Foster

John Michael Barker

Mark Pierre

Gregory Baldwin

Kerry A Bradley

Roger Noel Hastings

Anne Margaret Pianca

John Matthew Swoyer

Matthew Braden Flowers

Jesse D Geroy

Ellis Garai

Meredith Lee Anderson

Jeff Gagnon

Terry Ferrell

Laurence Dale Watkins

Daniel S Bennett

Kelly Hobart McClure

Goran Nils Marnfeldt

Jeffery Van Funderburk

Carla Mann Woods

Matthew Isaac Haller

Tom Xiaohai He

Peter Andrew Crosby

Prashant Brijmohansing Rawat

Prashant Brijmohansingh Rawat

Mun Pook Lui

Peter K Johnson

Jim Makous

Cliff Brainard

Charles Tilden Hagan, Iv

Matt Flowers

Andrew Digiore

System and method for rehabilitating a muscle and monitoring such rehabilitation are provided, the system including a user input receiver for receiving stimulation parameter inputs from a user, a stimulator for generating stimulations to be applied to a patient's body based on the stimulation parameter inputs, a signal receiver to receive, detect, and record a signal containing an evoked potential generated by the body in response to the stimulations, a signal processor for processing the recorded signal, for example, by amplifying, filtering, digitizing and temporal averaging the recorded signal, a trigger detector to alert the signal processor module when stimulations are generated to enable synchronization of the response signal with the stimulus for accurate temporal averaging, and an output display for providing data representative of the evoked potential to the user.

Systems and methods for monitoring muscle rehabilitation

A neurostimulation system and method of providing therapy to a patient implanted with a plurality of electrodes using a plurality of electrical sources is provided. A source-electrode coupling configuration is determined from the electrical sources and electrodes. Electrical current is respectively conveyed between active ones of the plurality of electrical sources and active subsets of the plurality of electrodes in accordance with the determined source-electrode coupling configuration. The total number of the electrodes in the active electrode subsets is greater than the total number of the active electrical sources.

Neurostimulation system and method for compounding current to minimize current sources

Methods of providing therapy to a patient are provided. In one method, the patient has a neuron to which a sub-threshold biological electrical stimulus is applied. The method comprises applying electrical noise energy to the neuron, wherein resonance between the biological electrical stimulus and the electrical noise energy is created, such that an action potential is propagated along the axon of the neuron. In another method, the patient has a neuron to which a supra-threshold biological electrical stimulus is applied. This method comprises applying supra-threshold electrical noise energy to the neuron, thereby preventing an action potential from being propagated along the axon of the neuron. Still another method comprises applying an electrical stimulus to a neuron, and applying supra-threshold electrical noise energy to the neuron, thereby preventing or reversing any neurological accommodation of the neuron that may occur in response to the electrical stimulus.

Method to enhance afferent and efferent transmission using noise resonance

A system for performing a neurostimulation trial comprises an external trial stimulator capable of delivering stimulation energy to a plurality of electrodes carried by one or more stimulation leads. The external trial stimulator is configurable to operate in a plurality of stimulation energy delivery modes to respectively emulate one of different neurostimulator types. The system may further comprise a programmer capable of configuring the external trial stimulator to operate in one of the stimulation energy delivery modes. The programmer may be capable of generating a first programming screen capable of allowing a first set of stimulation parameters to be defined for the first neurostimulator type, and a second programming screen capable of allowing a second set of stimulation parameters to be defined for a second neurostimulator type.

Multimodal neurostimulation systems and methods

Methods of treating a medical condition include applying at least one stimulus to a motor cortex within a brain of a patient with an implanted system control unit in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. Systems for treating a medical condition include a system control unit implanted within the patient that is configured to apply at least one stimulus to a motor cortex within a brain of a patient in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters.

Methods and systems for stimulating a motor cortex of the brain to treat a medical condition

Methods of treating a psychotic disorder include applying at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient with an implanted stimulator in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters configured to treat the psychotic disorder. Systems for treating a psychotic disorder include a stimulator configured to apply at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters configured to treat the psychotic disorder.

Methods and systems for treating a psychotic disorder

A method for determining a change in position of a neurostimulation lead relative to a stimulation target tissue of a patient is provided. The method comprises implanting a first proximity sensor on a surface of the patient, implanting a second proximity sensor on the surface of the patient, measuring a change in a distance between the first and second proximity sensors, and inferring the change in position of the lead relative to the stimulation target tissue from the measured change in distance. The method further comprises inferring an increase in a distance between the lead and the stimulation target tissue when the distance between the first and second proximity sensors increases. The method also comprises conveying electrical stimulation energy to therapeutically stimulate the stimulation target tissue, and modulating a stimulation parameter in response to the measured change in distance.

System and method for compensating for shifting of neurostimulation leads in a patient

Methods of treating a medical condition include applying at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within the brain of a patient with an implanted stimulator in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. The at least one stimulus is configured to promote neural remodeling within the brain of the patient. Systems for treating a medical condition include an implantable stimulator configured to apply at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within the brain of a patient in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. The at least one stimulus is configured to promote neural remodeling within the brain of the patient.

Methods and systems for treating a medical condition by promoting neural remodeling within the brain

A system and method for treating a patient suffering from chronic hypertension. Electrical therapeutic energy is delivered to a nerve branch of a renal artery of the patient, thereby treating the chronic hypertension. Another system and method for treating a medical condition of a patient. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to a stimulation site on the wall of a blood vessel, thereby evoking a compound action potential in a nerve branch associated with the blood vessel, sensing the evoked compound action potential at a sensing site on the wall of the blood vessel, identifying a circumferential location of the nerve branch as being adjacent the stimulation site or sensing site based on the sensed compound action potential(s), and delivering therapeutic energy to a therapeutic site on the wall of the blood vessel adjacent the circumferential location of the nerve branch, thereby modulating the nerve branch and treating the medical condition.

Neuromodulation of renal nerve for treatment of hypertension

An implantable device includes an electrode lead body and at least one stimulating electrode contact disposed on or within the electrode lead body, the lead body being configured and arranged to be self anchoring within body tissue. In addition, the invention is directed to methods of making and using such self anchoring implantable devices.

Self anchoring lead

The burr hole plug comprises a plug base configured for being mounted around a burr hole, and having an aperture through which an elongated medical device exiting the burr hole may pass. The burr hole plug further comprises a retainer configured for being mounted within the plug base aperture. The retainer includes a retainer support, a slot formed in the retainer support for receiving the medical device, and a clamping mechanism having a clamping bar and a flange slidably engaged with the retainer support to laterally slide the clamping bar to secure the medical device. A method comprises introducing the medical device through the burr hole, mounting the plug base around the burr hole, mounting the retainer within the plug base aperture, receiving the medical device into the slot, and sliding the slidable flange relative to the retainer support to laterally slide to secure the medical device.

Burr hole plug having sidable clamping mechanism

Methods for treating seizures caused by brain stimulation include providing a stimulator, programming the stimulator with one or more stimulation parameters configured to treat a medical condition, applying at least one stimulus with the stimulator to a stimulation site within the brain of a patient in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and monitoring the patient for a seizure caused by the at least one stimulus.

Methods and systems for treating seizures caused by brain stimulation

Exemplary systems include a stimulator configured to be implanted within a patient, the stimulator having a body defined by at least one side surface disposed in between distal and proximal end surfaces, and a connector assembly configured to be coupled to the stimulator and extend parallel to the at least one side surface of the stimulator. The connector assembly is further configured to facilitate removable coupling of a lead having one or more electrodes disposed thereon to the stimulator.

Connector assemblies for implantable stimulators

Methods and systems of treating a patient with pancreatitis pain include providing a stimulator, configuring one or more stimulation parameters to control sphincter of Oddi function, programming the stimulator with the one or more stimulation parameters, generating a stimulus configured to control sphincter of Oddi function with the stimulator in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and applying the stimulus with the stimulator to one or more stimulation sites in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters.

Methods and systems of treating pancreatitis pain caused by sphincter of Oddi dysfunction

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Kristen N Jaax