An apparatus (100 - 300) for treating a patient using vibration stimuli and/or tactile stimuli and/or thermal stimuli, comprising: a first stimulation unit for administering first stimuli to the skin of the patient, and a second stimulation unit for administering second stimuli to the skin of the patient, wherein the first and the second stimuli are vibration stimuli and/or tactile stimuli and/or thermal stimuli, respectively, the first stimulation unit is configured for generating the first stimuli, which, upon being received by receptors of the patient disposed in the skin and/or the muscles and/or the sub-cutaneous tissue and/or the sinews of the patient, are forwarded to a first subpopulation of a population of neurons having a pathologically synchronous and oscillatory activity, and the first stimuli effect that the phase of the neuronal activity of the first subpopulation is reset, the second stimulation unit is configured for generating the second stimuli, which, upon being received by receptors of the patient disposed in the skin and/or the muscles and/or the sub-cutaneous tissue and/or the sinews of the patient, are forwarded to a second subpopulation of the population of neurons having the pathologically synchronous and oscillatory activity, and the second stimuli effect that the phase of the neuronal activity of the second subpopulation is reset, and the first and the second stimulation unit (11, 12) are configured for administering the first and second stimuli at least partly at different times such that the phases of the neuronal activity of the first and the second subpopulation are reset at different times and, after the phase resets effected by the first and second stimuli, the phases of the neuronal activity of the first and the second subpopulation is different. a first stimulation unit for administering first stimuli to the skin of the patient, and a second stimulation unit for administering second stimuli to the skin of the patient, wherein the first and the second stimuli are vibration stimuli and/or tactile stimuli and/or thermal stimuli, respectively, the first stimulation unit is configured for generating the first stimuli, which, upon being received by receptors of the patient disposed in the skin and/or the muscles and/or the sub-cutaneous tissue and/or the sinews of the patient, are forwarded to a first subpopulation of a population of neurons having a pathologically synchronous and oscillatory activity, and the first stimuli effect that the phase of the neuronal activity of the first subpopulation is reset, the second stimulation unit is configured for generating the second stimuli, which, upon being received by receptors of the patient disposed in the skin and/or the muscles and/or the sub-cutaneous tissue and/or the sinews of the patient, are forwarded to a second subpopulation of the population of neurons having the pathologically synchronous and oscillatory activity, and the second stimuli effect that the phase of the neuronal activity of the second subpopulation is reset, and the first and the second stimulation unit (11, 12) are configured for administering the first and second stimuli at least partly at different times such that the phases of the neuronal activity of the first and the second subpopulation are reset at different times and, after the phase resets effected by the first and second stimuli, the phases of the neuronal activity of the first and the second subpopulation is different.