Patent ID: 8060209

Claim:
A method of treating a patient with ischemia pain, comprising: providing a stimulator; configuring one or more stimulation parameters to treat ischemia pain in a visceral organ, wherein said visceral organ comprises at least one or more of a pancreas, a duodenum, a small intestine, a colon, a liver, a spleen, a kidney, an adrenal glands, a stomach, an appendix, and a gall bladder; programming said stimulator with said one or more stimulation parameters; generating a stimulus configured to treat said ischemia pain with said stimulator in accordance with said one or more stimulation parameters; and applying said stimulus with said stimulator to a stimulation site within said patient; wherein said stimulation site comprises at least one or more of a vascular tissue of said visceral organ and a nerve innervating said vascular tissue of said visceral organ.