Table 1.
Summary of Programming Parameters for Both Tonic and Burst Stimulation
| Tonic | Burst | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Min | Max | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
| Perception amplitude | 4.2 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.05 | 2.0 |
| Comfort amplitude | 6.5 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 14.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.05 | 4.2 |
| Max tolerable amplitude | 8.9 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 21.0 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.03 | 5.0 |
| Frequency | 54.8 | 18.8 | 30.0 | 96.0 | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| Pulse width (μs) | 319.5 | 78.0 | 200.0 | 500.0 | ** | ** | ** | ** |
**For all patients, burst was set to 40 Hz with an intraburst rate of 500 Hz, 5 pulses per burst, and a pulse width of 1000 μs.