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

We found spinal cord stimulators cost about A$55,000 per patient, including the device, its insertion, and managing any associated additional surgeries. For people who only had a “trial” – where the ...

Spinal cord injury survivors and researchers say patients are anxiously waiting for a cure, but the safety and effectiveness of electrical stimulation therapies still need to be proven.

New research from the University of Sydney reveals surgically implanted spinal cord stimulators—a common treatment for lower back pain which aims to disrupt pain signals traveling to the brain—are ...

Spinal-cord stimulation helping back-pain patients at St. Paul's ditch addictive opiates Popularity of implantable spinal-cord stimulators is surging because they're a pain-relieving alternative.

"Spinal cord stimulation is thought to help the brain modulate itself as it should by decreasing the noise or decreasing the hyperactive signaling that may be in place during a depressive syndrome ...

"Spinal cord stimulation is thought to help the brain modulate itself as it should by decreasing the noise or decreasing the hyperactive signaling that may be in place during a depressive syndrome ...

Spinal cord stimulators are mainly used to treat chronic back pain, especially when other less invasive treatments have not worked. They also aim to reduce people's reliance on risky pain medicines.

Spinal cord stimulation is a good example of a treatment that got ahead of the evidence. Although the devices have been around since the 1960s, we’ve only had reliable trials to test whether ...