Patent ID: 7295876
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for programming a stimulation device, comprising: placing a stimulation device into a programming mode using an external programming device, the external programming device adapted to control the stimulation device; sending a treatment protocol program from the external programming device to the stimulation device, wherein the treatment protocol program is associated with a first stimulation setting; testing the treatment protocol program using the stimulation device; modifying said first stimulation setting according to said testing until pain relief is experienced; adding a second stimulation setting to said treatment protocol program to form a test treatment protocol program which stimulates using parameters from each stimulation setting; testing said test treatment protocol program; and receiving a user selection of a treatment protocol program that provides the best comparative pain relief; balancing perceived amplitudes, using the programming device, associated with the first and second stimulation settings in real-time while the treatment protocol program is executed by the stimulation device; wherein said test treatment program alternates stimulation settings during said testing and balancing.