Treatment of disorders by unidirectional nerve stimulation
AssigneeBiocontrol Medical Ltd.
InventorsEhud Cohen, Yossi Gross, Shai Ayal
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Abstract
Apparatus for treating a condition of a subject is provided. An electrode device is adapted to be coupled to longitudinal nervous tissue of the subject, and a control unit is adapted to drive the electrode device to apply to the nervous tissue a current which is capable of inducing action potentials that propagate in the nervous tissue in a first direction, so as to treat the condition. The control unit is further adapted to suppress action potentials from propagating in the nervous tissue in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Claims72
A method for treating a condition of a subject, comprising:
- driving into longitudinal nervous tissue of the subject a current which is capable of inducing action potentials that propagate in the nervous tissue in a first direction, so as to treat the condition;
- and
- suppressing action potentials from propagating in the nervous tissue in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Apparatus for treating a condition of a subject, comprising:
- an electrode device, adapted to be coupled to longitudinal nervous tissue of the subject;
- and
- a control unit, adapted to drive the electrode device to apply to the nervous tissue a current which is capable of inducing action potentials that propagate in the nervous tissue in a first direction, so as to treat the condition, and adapted to suppress action potentials from propagating in the nervous tissue in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.