METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE CONTROL OF NERVE FIBERS

• Main Authors: AYAL, SHAI, COHEN, EHUD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 08.05.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTROTHERAPY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY

A method and apparatus particularly useful for pain control by selectively blocking the propagation of body-generated action potentials travelling through a nerve bundle by using a tripolar electrode device (10) to generate unidirectional action potentials to serve as collision blocks with the body-...