US 11,911,624 B2
Logging the execution of sub-programs within a stimulation program for an implantable stimulator device
Que Doan, West Hills, CA (US); Sridhar Kothandaraman, Valencia, CA (US); Adam Featherstone, Meridian, ID (US); and Dennis Vansickle, Lancaster, CA (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/450,365.
Application 17/450,365 is a continuation of application No. 16/419,879, filed on May 22, 2019, granted, now 11,160,987.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/748,031, filed on Oct. 19, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/680,539, filed on Jun. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0023648 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/372 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/37235 (2013.01) [A61N 1/3605 (2013.01); A61N 1/36071 (2013.01); A61N 1/36157 (2013.01); A61N 1/36164 (2013.01); A61N 1/36167 (2013.01); A61N 1/37223 (2013.01); A61N 1/37241 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method operable with a spinal cord stimulator (SCS) device, wherein the SCS device comprises a plurality of electrodes implanted within a spinal column of the patient, the method comprising:
executing in the SCS device a stimulation program comprising a plurality of sub-programs thereby sequentially executing each of the sub-programs, wherein each sub-program provides stimulation to one or more of the electrodes using different stimulation parameters;
receiving at an external system in communication with the SCS device at least one pain score from the patient for each of the sub-programs, wherein the at least one pain score for each sub-program is indicative of the patient's pain upon receiving the stimulation provided by that sub-program; and
processing the pain scores at the external system to identify one or more of the sub-programs as suitable for the patient; and
providing therapeutic stimulation to the patient using the identified one or more of the sub-programs.