METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

摘要

Disclosed are methods and system of using wireless neuromuscular electrical stimulation of appropriate muscles to shift immobile patients from any posture. The methods and apparatus are extended to any immobile person, be it due to spinal cord injury, stroke, dementia, or from any other cause. Accordingly, generated pressure ulcers can be avoided or treated in any anatomic locations of the body based on the electrical stimulations of effective muscles relative to said location. Neuromuscular electrical stimulations of muscles would enable the immobile persons to shift their weight. Full body pressure ulcer prevention protocols using plurality of microstimulators that are implanted at plurality of target locations within the patient's body i.e. locations that are particularly at risk.