Preliminary research turns to a fully implantable system ...

KUTV — For patients suffering from chronic, severe back pain that hasn’t responded to traditional treatments, a spinal cord stimulator (SCS) may offer new hope. Dr. Jeff Pence, Interventional Spine ...

"For example, patients receiving a spinal cord stimulator implant may abandon therapy if they get an infection following the surgery. Research shows nearly three-quarters of patients who experience an ...

Medtronic has secured FDA approval for its first closed-loop spinal cord stimulator, designed to take in signals from the body and adjust its therapy automatically. The Inceptiv implant for chronic ...

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 ...

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — A Lakeville pain patient says multiple Twin Cities pain clinics pressured her to get a spinal cord stimulator implanted despite a neurosurgeon's warning that the device could cause ...

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 ...