Methods for Treating a Tibial Nerve-Related Condition

A method for treating a tibial nerve-related condition or disease in a subject having the tibial nerve-related condition or disease:

• wherein the subject a lower leg, a knee, a foot, the tibial nerve of the lower leg, skin of the lower leg, an outside surface of the skin of the lower leg, a tibia of the lower leg, an ankle interconnecting the lower leg and the foot, a medial malleolus of the ankle of the lower leg, an Achilles tendon of the lower leg, and a tibial vascular bundle of the lower leg,
• wherein the tibia, the tibial nerve, and the tibial vascular bundle each have a length, and
• wherein the tibia, the tibial nerve and the tibial vascular bundle extend along a longitudinal axis from the ankle to the knee,
• the method comprising:
• determining an incision site that is between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon of the subject;
• making an incision through the skin of the lower leg at the incision site;
• locating a portion of the length of the tibial nerve in the subject;
• obtaining the electrical stimulation lead;
• inserting the electrical stimulation lead through the incision site and subcutaneously advancing the electrical stimulation lead in a direction from the incision site toward the knee of the subject, along the longitudinal axis, and substantially along the portion of the length of the tibial nerve;
• depositing the electrical stimulation lead at a final lead location that is at the tibial nerve in the subject;
• obtaining an controller module, wherein the controller module is in communicable relation with the electrical stimulation lead, and wherein the controller module is activatable to cause the electrical stimulation lead to emit an electrical pulse to the tibial nerve of the subject;
• and
• activating the controller module to cause the electrical stimulation lead to emit an electrical pulse to the tibial nerve, thereby modulating the tibial nerve and treating the tibial nerve-related condition or disease in the subject.