Patent ID: 7890176

Claim:
A method of treating a patient with chronic pelvic pain, said method comprising: implanting a system control unit at least partially within said patient; implanting one or more electrodes at a stimulation site within said patient, wherein said system control unit is coupled to the one or more electrodes; configuring one or more stimulation parameters to treat chronic pelvic pain; programming said system control unit with said one or more stimulation parameters; generating a stimulus configured to treat said chronic pelvic pain with said system control unit in accordance with said one or more stimulation parameters; and applying said stimulus to the stimulation site within said patient using said electrodes; wherein said stimulation site comprises at least one or more of a frankenhauser's ganglion, a cauda equina, a thalamus, a motor cortex, a frontal cortex, an arterial supply to a reproductive organ, and an arterial supply to a pelvic floor.