What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As ...

Living with chronic neck back pain is an unfortunate reality for millions of Americans. Dr. Glenn Harper, a neurosurgeon with Advanced Pain Care, visited with Studio 512 about a surgical intervention ...

Joseph Jeanmarie has had back problems since the 1980s, when he injured his back and had surgery. Although his chronic pain was sometimes debilitating, he continued his work as an insurance ...

In past research, Calvert and others in the field have been able to restore control over muscle movement for these patients ...

Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices that are surgically implanted in the body to treat long-term pain. They have a battery pack and leads that deliver electrical impulses directly to the ...

A man left with incontinence and partial paralysis in the legs after spinal surgery received a $1.25 million settlement in his Essex County medical malpractice suit on Aug. 2. Orlando Figueroa was 61 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Xstim Inc. received FDA premarket application approval of its Xstim spine fusion stimulator. The device is ...

People with chronic back pain may turn to spinal cord stimulation to ease their pain, but a Cochrane Review found no sustained benefits to the surgery that outweigh the costs and risks. Spinal cord ...

A device that stimulates the spinal cord is giving patients who suffer from chronic pain, a chance to live a normal life again. Shelby Eddy is a young mom who lives for her three boys. She says, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Abbott has announced the FDA expanded the indication of its BurstDR spinal cord stimulation devices for treating ...