Systems and methods for electro-therapy treatment

Abstract

A system for electro-therapeutically treating a patient includes a stimulatory device electromagnetically coupled with the nervous system of a patient, an electrical power supply, and a control mechanism structured to energize the stimulatory device by way of the electrical power supply at a stimulation frequency. The control mechanism is further structured to control the energizing so as to produce a treatment signal encoded in the energizing and having a treatment signal frequency equal to or less than the stimulation frequency.

1 . A method of electro-therapeutically treating a patient comprising:
 energizing a stimulatory device at a stimulation signal frequency;   controlling the energizing of the stimulatory device so as to encode a treatment signal in the energizing of the stimulatory device, the treatment signal having a treatment signal frequency that is equal to or less than the stimulation signal frequency; and   entraining the autonomic nervous system of the patient to the treatment signal, so as to adjust a power spectral density of the autonomic nervous system of the patient toward a target power spectral density.   
     
     
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