Treatment of spinal tissue
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11096738B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US15955815

    申请日:2018-04-18

    摘要: A method of treating an intervertebral disc without piercing the disc involves navigating a treatment element to the intervertebral disc and contacting the treatment element with an exterior of the intervertebral disc. The method further involves applying an energy-based treatment to the exterior of the intervertebral disc to modify a property of a target tissue of the intervertebral disc. The target tissue may be, for example, annulus fibrosus and/or nucleus pulposus tissue. The treatment element is then removed, and the property remains modified after the treatment element is removed and the target tissue heals, thereby treating the intervertebral disc.

    NASAL AIRWAY TISSUE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210236199A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US17161076

    申请日:2021-01-28

    IPC分类号: A61B18/14 A61B18/02 A61B18/12

    摘要: A method for treating a nasal airway to ameliorate one or more symptoms of rhinitis in a patient may involve activating a radiofrequency console attached to a stylus, bending a shaft of the stylus in at least one location to a desired angle, advancing a distal tip of the radiofrequency stylus into a nostril of the patient, applying pressure against nasal mucosa lining the nasal airway with a treatment surface of the distal tip, and delivering radiofrequency energy from one set of bipolar electrodes on the treatment surface of the distal tip to a second set of bipolar electrodes on the treatment surface, to treat tissue underlying the nasal mucosa, including at least one nasal nerve. The method may also involve contacting the distal tip with an additional tissue at another location and delivering radiofrequency energy to the additional tissue.