Peripheral nerve stimulator for influencing sympathetic nerve and sympathetic nerve activity to obtain therapeutic effect

摘要

Percutaneous, compact, light, patient-comfortable, consistently co-positionable, and consistently delivering current over a relatively large area to accommodate anatomical differences. Provided are improved systems for providing vagal nerve stimulation, as well as devices that can be used to stimulate percutaneous peripheral nerves to achieve the desired therapeutic effect on humans. To change the balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic activity by selectively increasing or decreasing each of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, electrical, optical, and mechanical stimulation. A device and method for stimulating the peripheral nerves in the patient's body with stimuli, or other stimuli, and in particular, percutaneously stimulating the vagus nerve (including the parasympathetic nerve) for the desired treatment in human subjects. A device that selectively affects the sympathetic nerve and the parasympathetic nerve is provided to achieve the effect. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1