Implants that regulate electrical activity in the brain have been used to treat Parkinson’s symptoms for decades, and lately we’re seeing how they might do so much more. A new design could greatly ...

Abbott has obtained FDA clearance of its Eterna spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system for the treatment of chronic pain. The system is the smallest implantable, rechargeable SCS — thin wires placed ...

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to treat pain in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) was the focus of a recent literature review out of Italy. An analysis from Italy of 7 studies that investigated ...

Portland, Ore.-based Northwest Ambulatory Surgery Center’s Mark A. Kallgren, MD, conducted the first commercial implantation of the Senza spinal cord stimulator in Portland. 1. Senza offers Nevro’s ...

The new implant is essentially a type of advanced spinal cord stimulator, which are devices that sit in between the spinal cord and the vertebrate and emit electrical pulses that disrupt pain signals.

A man who lived with chronic pain for years says he may have gotten the best Christmas present of all. Jeffrey Hardick remembers the day his life changed in 2001. "I was lifting sheet metal, and I got ...

Evidence Published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice Shows 10 kHz Therapy Yields Lasting Pain Relief and Enhances Health-Related Quality of Life and Sleep Globally, the number of people with ...

Physicians have long been interested in approaches to chronic pain management that are less prone to abuse than traditionally prescribed medications. But the ongoing opioid crisis in America has shone ...

Though it be but little, it is fierce: An implant that’s the width of just a few strands of hair is designed to take on the outsized symptoms of chronic pain—and is now cleared by the FDA to do just ...