US 12,458,428 B2
Vertebral denervation in conjunction with vertebral fusion
Brian W. Donovan, San Jose, CA (US); and Ray M. Baker, San Clemente, CA (US)
Assigned to Relievant Medsystems, Inc., Edina, MN (US)
Appl. No. 18/003,760
Filed by Relievant Medsystems, Inc., Edina, MN (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/040843
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/011115, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/050,295, filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0255676 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 18/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/02 (2006.01); A61B 18/08 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/18 (2006.01); A61B 18/20 (2006.01); A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/1206 (2013.01) [A61B 17/7002 (2013.01); A61B 17/7032 (2013.01); A61B 17/7059 (2013.01); A61B 17/7061 (2013.01); A61B 17/7074 (2013.01); A61B 18/02 (2013.01); A61B 18/082 (2013.01); A61B 18/148 (2013.01); A61B 18/1815 (2013.01); A61F 2/4455 (2013.01); A61F 2/4611 (2013.01); A61N 7/00 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00434 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0293 (2013.01); A61B 2018/126 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1869 (2013.01); A61B 18/20 (2013.01); A61B 2018/2005 (2013.01); A61N 2007/003 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method of treating multiple independent sources of low back pain of a patient during a single therapeutic intervention, the method comprising:
performing a spinal fusion procedure between two adjacent vertebrae of the patient, wherein the spinal fusion procedure comprises leaving one or more hardware components within or surrounding each of the adjacent vertebrae;
inserting an access tool within an inner cancellous bone region of a vertebral body of one of the two adjacent vertebrae while avoiding contact with the one or more hardware components, the access tool comprising a lumen extending therethrough to facilitate access to the inner cancellous bone region;
inserting a neuromodulation device through the lumen of the access tool until at least a distal end of the neuromodulation device extends beyond the access tool within the inner cancellous bone region,
modulating a basivertebral nerve within the inner cancellous bone region using the neuromodulation device; and
removing the neuromodulation device and the access tool from the patient.