MEDICAL IMPLANT WITH TISSUE LOCATION MONITORING

Abstract: a method includes monitoring a recipient's tongue position while the recipient is asleep. the method further includes (comparing the recipient's tongue position to at least one predetermined threshold position at which the recipient's tongue does not substantially impair breathing of the recipient during sleep. the method further includes, in response to said comparing, selectively generating and applying stimulation signals to the recipient's tongue and/or hypoglossal nerve such that the recipient's tongue moves to a modified position further from substantially impairing breathing of the recipient during sleep than is the recipient's tongue at the at least one predetermined threshold position.

Inventor(s): Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Koen Erik Van den Heuvel, Kenneth Oplinger, Stefan Josef Mauger

CPC Classification: A61B5/4818 ({Sleep apnoea})

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