Patent ID: 8903502
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for modulating excitable tissue in a body of a patient comprising: implanting a wireless stimulator device in proximity to an exiting nerve root or a dorsal root ganglion, the wireless stimulator device including one or more electrodes, circuitry, and one or more receiving antennas; transmitting electrical energy and waveform parameters from a pulse generator located outside of the body to the one or more receiving antennas within the wireless stimulator device through radiative coupling such that the circuitry within the wireless stimulator device generates one or more electrical impulses solely based on the externally supplied electrical energy and according to the externally supplied waveform parameters, and applies the electrical impulses to tissue adjacent to or near the exiting nerve root or the dorsal root ganglion through the electrodes.