Method and apparatus for pain management with sleep detection

A method for providing a patient with pain management, the method comprising:

• delivering one or more pain relief therapies from a pain relief device to the patient;
• receiving one or more sleep signals indicative of sleeping stages of the patient;
• generating one or more sleep parameters using the one or more sleep signals;
• determining the sleep stages of the patient using the one or more sleep parameters;
• receiving one or more pain signals indicative of pain of the patient;
• determining a measure associated with the pain of the patient using the one or more pain signals and each sleep stage of the determined sleep stages, the measure associated with the pain of the patient being a function of the one or more pain parameters and the each stage;
• determining therapy parameters for each stage of the determined sleep stages using the measure associated with the pain of the patient determined for that stage;
• and
• controlling the delivery of the one or more pain relief therapies during each stage of the determined sleep stages using the therapy parameters determined for that stage.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method for providing a patient with pain management, the method comprising:

• delivering one or more pain relief therapies from a pain relief device to the patient;
• receiving one or more sleep signals indicative of sleeping stages of the patient;
• generating one or more sleep parameters using the one or more sleep signals;
• determining the sleep stages of the patient using the one or more sleep parameters;
• receiving one or more pain signals indicative of pain of the patient;
• and
• determining a measure associated with the pain of the patient using the one or more pain signals and each sleep stage of the determined sleep stages, the measure associated with the pain of the patient being a function of the one or more pain parameters and the each stage,
• wherein the measure associated with the pain of the patient determined for each stage of the determined sleep stages is used to determine therapy parameters for that stage, and the delivery of the one or more pain relief therapies is controlled during each stage of the determined sleep stages using the therapy parameters determined for that stage.