Patent ID: 9101346
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for treating pain or spasm associated with a nerve of a patient, the nerve underlying a tissue, the method comprising: manually manipulating a body with a hand, the body supporting a needle, the body manipulated so as to penetrate a sharpened distal end of the needle into the tissue to thermally couple the needle with the nerve, wherein the body supports a cooling fluid source; wherein the needle has a lumen extending distally toward the distal end, wherein a cooling fluid supply tube extends distally within the lumen of the needle, and wherein the manipulating of the body is performed so that the cooling fluid supply tube extends distally of the skin surface; and transmitting cooling fluid from the source to the needle so that the fluid flows through the fluid supply tube distally of the skin surface and cools the needle, and so that the needle cools the nerve sufficiently that the pain is inhibited.