Stories of paralysis following spinal cord stimulator highlight a wider debate, as these common procedures are being ...

Cammie Lavalle says that although she was told she wasn't a good candidate, multiple pain clinics tried to convince her to ...

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 ...

St. Paul, Minn.-based St. Jude Medical earned Food and Drug Administration approval for its BurstDR stimulation technology, a physician-developed form of spinal cord stimulation used to treat patients ...

Medicare may cover the implantation of a spinal cord stimulator as a therapy for chronic intractable pain. Chronic intractable pain refers to persistent pain that doesn’t respond to traditional ...

For generations, paralysis from a damaged spinal cord has been seen as permanent. Once the nerves were injured, the signals carrying movement from the brain to the body were lost forever. But ...

In a new clinical study, researchers from the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries. In this ...

A series of converging advances in bio-implant technology, from brain-spine interfaces to lab-grown spinal tissue, is bringing the long-elusive goal of spinal cord repair closer to clinical reality.

How Medtronic spinal cord stimulation therapy helped one woman reclaim her life. For more than a decade, Lynnette lived in the shadow of debilitating pain. What began as persistent discomfort in her ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...