Patent ID: 9403031
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: A61B,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A method for treating a nerve tissue injury, the method comprising: identifying a nerve tissue injury site including peripheral nerves; providing a source of laser light having a wavelength in the range of 730-830 nm and a power in the range of 15 to 90 milliwatts; transmitting the laser light through an optical wire, the laser light being transmitted from the source of the laser light to a location adjacent to a nerve tissue injury site, the optical wire connected to a light emission surface positioned adjacent to the nerve tissue injury site, the light emission surface adapted to emit laser light from the optical wire to the nerve tissue injury site, the light emission surface and at least a portion of the optical wire being positioned within a human body; disposing a plurality of the optical wires in a bundle, each of the optical wires terminating in a window defining the light emission surface; arranging a subset of the windows in a sidewall of a fenestrated tip, the sidewall facing the nerve tissue injury site; and irradiating the nerve tissue injury site with the laser light carried via the optical wire, the optical wire and the light emission surface are positioned subcutaneously.