The small implant helps relieve pain and joint swelling in rheumatoid arthritis and is being investigated for other ...

What is spinal cord stimulation? The truth about the back pain treatment - Research shows spinal cord stimulators work no better than a placebo – and they can also carry risks ...

The device stimulates the vagus nerve, signaling the body to tamp down the inflammation that contributes to the disease.

Spinal cord stimulators are mainly used to treat chronic back pain, especially when other less invasive treatments have not ...

For these individuals, proposed therapeutic solutions involve potentially addictive opioid drugs, or electrical stimulation methods that disrupt pain signaling between the nerves of the spinal cord ...

For Rebecca Clements, 55, pain became a big part of her life when she injured her back at age 14. Two rounds of surgery helped, but when she was in her 20s, a couple of car accidents led to more pain.

Failed back-surgery syndrome, which is Clements’ diagnosis, along with chronic lumbar pain, are a few of the top indications for spinal-cord stimulation.

A woman who suffers with chronic pain has begged for the return of an emergency medical bag that she said had been stolen.

Researchers have flipped the script on the usual approach to pain relief in a new study, demonstrating that a short course of non-invasive brain stimulation before a painful event such as surgery ...

We found that about one-quarter of people who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted needed corrective surgery afterwards. These surgeries occurred within a median of about 17 months. This indicates ...

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 ...