User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Important therapy information
- 3 Introduction to stimulation
- 4 Using your patient programmer
- How the patient programmer works
- Synchronizing and displaying the Therapy screen
- Guidelines for adjusting your stimulation
- Turning your neurostimulator ON or OFF
- Adjusting stimulation settings
- Patient programmer batteries
- Summary of keys
- Preferences: Changing the audio, contrast, and number format
- Using the carrying case and labeling the patient programmer
- Optional detachable antenna
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Maintenance
- 7 Appendix A: Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
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Parameter row – The bottom row on the
THERAPY screen. Icons indicate the
parameters that a patient can adjust.
Patient programmer – A hand-held device
that allows you to turn your neurostimulator
ON and OFF. It is also used to adjust some
stimulation settings.
Program – Stimulation directed to a specific
pain site.
Programming – Using a clinician or patient
programmer to communicate stimulation
settings to a neurostimulator.
Precaution – See Caution.
Pulse width – The length or duration of an
electrical pulse.
Rate – The number of electrical pulses
delivered each second.
Settings – See Stimulation settings.