I would like to draw everyone's attention to a patent filed Oct. 2009: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY STIMULATING NERVE ROOTS - Patent Application 20090270935
It is used to help cardiovascular diseases and likewise by stimulating the Central Nervous System with electricity. Here is a "summary":
Sympathetic over activation is involved in a variety of cardiovascular disease, such as ventricular arrhythmias, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure (HF), etc. Therapies that are based on autonomic modulation have shown efficacy in a variety of cardiovascular diseases in both preclinical and clinical studies. The autonomic balance can be modulated to have more parasympathetic tone by stimulating parasympathetic targets or inhibiting sympathetic targets, and can be modulated to have more sympathetic tone by stimulating sympathetic targets or inhibiting parasympathetic targets.
This should be of interest to persons that went through ETS and to persons that are considering it due to hyperhidrosis. The device is said to be able to stimulate sympathetic as well as parasympathetic tone as needed, in order to find a balance between them two.
Among it claims can be seen:
13. A method, comprising: using a neural stimulation lead fed vertically through a dorsal epidural space of a human and at least partially wrapped around a spinal cord, delivering electrical stimulation pulses to at least one of: a ventral nerve root to stimulate or inhibit efferent sympathetic activity from the ventral nerve root; or a dorsal nerve root to stimulate afferent sympathetic activity from the ventral nerve root.
21. The method of claim 13, wherein the neural stimulation lead is at least partially wrapped around a spinal cord proximate to a vertebrae corresponding to at least one of T1, T2, T3, T4 or T5.
Obviously, blushers/sweaters as well as post-ETS patients are too small of a group to target for research. This is now used to help heart patients, but with my humble knowledge it could also be used as 1) an "ETS light" that inhibits the sympathetic tone instead of interrupting it totally 2) increase what is left of the sympathetic tone for patients that underwent ETS.
What do anyone reckon for this patent as be used to help hyperhidrosis?
Thanks.
It is used to help cardiovascular diseases and likewise by stimulating the Central Nervous System with electricity. Here is a "summary":
Sympathetic over activation is involved in a variety of cardiovascular disease, such as ventricular arrhythmias, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure (HF), etc. Therapies that are based on autonomic modulation have shown efficacy in a variety of cardiovascular diseases in both preclinical and clinical studies. The autonomic balance can be modulated to have more parasympathetic tone by stimulating parasympathetic targets or inhibiting sympathetic targets, and can be modulated to have more sympathetic tone by stimulating sympathetic targets or inhibiting parasympathetic targets.
This should be of interest to persons that went through ETS and to persons that are considering it due to hyperhidrosis. The device is said to be able to stimulate sympathetic as well as parasympathetic tone as needed, in order to find a balance between them two.
Among it claims can be seen:
13. A method, comprising: using a neural stimulation lead fed vertically through a dorsal epidural space of a human and at least partially wrapped around a spinal cord, delivering electrical stimulation pulses to at least one of: a ventral nerve root to stimulate or inhibit efferent sympathetic activity from the ventral nerve root; or a dorsal nerve root to stimulate afferent sympathetic activity from the ventral nerve root.
21. The method of claim 13, wherein the neural stimulation lead is at least partially wrapped around a spinal cord proximate to a vertebrae corresponding to at least one of T1, T2, T3, T4 or T5.
Obviously, blushers/sweaters as well as post-ETS patients are too small of a group to target for research. This is now used to help heart patients, but with my humble knowledge it could also be used as 1) an "ETS light" that inhibits the sympathetic tone instead of interrupting it totally 2) increase what is left of the sympathetic tone for patients that underwent ETS.
What do anyone reckon for this patent as be used to help hyperhidrosis?
Thanks.