System Handbook

The Remote Control
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Options
Under some circumstances, and depending on your treatment prescription, your healthcare provider
may have given you a level of control beyond selectable programs by making special options
available to you. This feature allows you to change certain preset stimulation settings, and/or restore
the original clinic settings for programs that you might have changed. The latter is an advantage if
you’ve made a program adjustment that you’re not satisfied with.
If you’ve been told about program options and instructed in how to use them, you may realize that
you probably won’t use this special feature very often. However, if your Remote Control has been
set up to access options, follow the steps below to make changes.
There are three possible options. One of these, RESTORE, is not a stimulation setting but is similar
to an “undo” feature, returning a program to settings from the clinic. The other two options are
stimulation settings that can affect the feeling of stimulation:
• rate, or how many times-per-second your implant sends a stimulation pulse, and
• width (for pulse width), or how long each stimulation pulse lasts.
Note: Any one or both of these may be locked out of the options feature by your clinician. Your
choices would have been discussed with you at your first programming session.