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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2015
Valencia Technologies Corporation, Valencia, CA (US);
Jeffrey H. Greiner, Valencia, CA (US);
David K. L. Peterson, Valencia, CA (US);
Chuladatta Thenuwara, Castaic, CA (US);
Stacy Greiner Chambliss, Valencia, CA (US);
Valencia Technologies Corporation, Valencia, CA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method of treating a chronic low back pain condition in a patient includes 1) generating, by an electroacupuncture device implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient at at least one of acupoints BL22, BL23, BL24, BL25, and BL26 within the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05, wherein the duty cycle is a ratio of Tto Tand each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of Tminutes and occurs at a rate of once every Tminutes, and 2) applying, by the electroacupuncture device, the stimulation sessions to the target tissue location in accordance with the duty cycle.