Patent ID: 8983612
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of ameliorating sensory nerve pain in a patient in need thereof, the method comprising (a) connecting a waveform generator operatively to an implanted electrode contacting a trunk of a sensory peripheral nerve in the patient resulting in prevention of action potential transmission in the nerve upon application of a waveform of at least 5 kHz up to 50 kHz where the frequency blocks but does not stimulate and is not used to generate an action potential in a nerve but rather to block conduction of an action potential at one of a voltage ranging from 4 V peak to peak (Vpp) to 20 Vpp, or a current ranging from 4 mA peak to peak (mApp) to 26 mApp at a plurality of contact surfaces with the nerve trunk for an interval sufficient to effect substantially immediate pain relief in the patient, and (b) optionally repeating step (a) as needed to ameliorate nerve pain.