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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2020
Applicant:
University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Inventors:
Lee Erik Bartholomew Fisher, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert A. Gaunt, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Douglas J. Weber, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61F 2/72 (2006.01); A61F 2/58 (2006.01); A61F 2/66 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36071 (2013.01); A61B 5/486 (2013.01); A61B 5/6811 (2013.01); A61F 2/586 (2013.01); A61F 2/66 (2013.01); A61F 2/72 (2013.01); A61N 1/36021 (2013.01); A61N 1/36031 (2017.08); A61N 1/36139 (2013.01); A61B 5/4851 (2013.01); A61F 2002/665 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method of reducing phantom limb pain or diabetic neuropathy pain, and increasing prosthetic control, by stimulating dorsal spinal rootlets and/or lateral spinal cord adjacent to the dorsal rootlets, of sensory neurons innervating the limb with the phantom limb pain or diabetic neuropathy pain, or the prosthetic.