METHOD, APPARATUS, SURGICAL TECHNIQUE, AND OPTIMAL STIMULATION PARAMETERS FOR NONINVASIVE &； MINIMALLY INVASIVE AUTONOMIC VECTOR NEUROMODULATION FOR PHYSIOLOGIC OPTIMIZATION AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY, CARDIAC DISEASE, PULMONARY DISORDERS, HYPERTENSION, AND OTHER CONDITIONS
The present invention teaches a method and apparatus for physiological modulation, including neural, gastrointestinal, renal, respiratory, and other modulation, for the purposes of treating several disorders, including obesity, depression, epilepsy, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and other disorders. This includes implanted, percutaneous, hybrid implanted and nonimplanted, nonimplanted, noninvasive neural and neuromuscular modulators, used to deliver autonomic vector modulation to deliver optimal therapy via coordinated multi-nodal modulation at least one of the afferent and efferent neurons of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and other nervous system pathways.
