A grid of electrodes placed on the backs of study participants delivered enough low-voltage electrical stimulation through the skin to change the short-term function of spinal cord neurons, a study ...

On May 16, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved spinal cord stimulation (SCS ... with the torpedo fish (also known as an electric ray), which can stun other animals with ...

Spinal cord stimulators are devices implanted surgically which deliver electric impulses directly to the spinal cord. They’ve been used to treat people with chronic pain since the 1960s.

Dr. Ihsan Balkaya, who is with Faith Regional Physicians Services in Norfolk, conducted the first peripheral nerve ...

A spinal cord stimulator is a two-part device implanted into the spine, consisting of electrodes that carry a small electrical current into different areas of the epidural space of the spine, and a ...

Patients are suing medical device makers for selling spinal cord stimulators to treat chronic back pain but allegedly triggered worsening pain and electric shocks. The complaints, however ...

They range from the device not working, to leads moving to paralysis, sepsis, burns, electric shocks and falls. In the United States, spinal cord stimulators account for the third-highest number ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spinal cord stimulator, or "SCS", is a small medical ... up inside me when I was charging [the device]. It was giving me 'electric' shocks," says the 65-year-old from Victoria.