System and method for treating shoulder pain related to subacromial impingement syndrome
View Patent ↗Systems and methods are provided for treating chronic pain occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome in a human body. A system is provided to deliver percutaneous electrical stimulation through at least one electrode to neurological motor points of the posterior and middle deltoid muscles to mediate such pain. One-time, continued and/or periodic dosing of treatment methods according to the present invention may result in a change to central nervous system maladaptive neuroplasticity.
1. A method comprising the steps of:
inserting a lead percutaneously into a human;
placing an electrode in subepidermal tissue of the human, the electrode operatively coupled with the lead; and
delivering electrical stimulation through the electrode,
wherein, after the delivering step, a level of pain perceived by the human, wherein the pain was caused by or occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome, is reduced.
2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein during the delivering step, a level of pain perceived by the human, wherein the pain was caused by or occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome, is reduced.
3. A method comprising the steps of:
percutaneously inserting a lead into a tissue of a human;
delivering stimulation through at least one electrode operatively coupled with the lead to a neurological motor point of the human;
mediating pain caused by or occurring secondarily to subacromial impingement syndrome.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the neurological motor point includes a neurological motor point of posterior and middle deltoid muscles.
5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising the steps of:
delivering a second stimulation through the at least one electrode to the neurological motor point of the human; and
changing a central nervous system maladaptive neuroplasticity.