A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and ...

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, will face a ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, May 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A brain wave decoder shows promise in using electrical stimulation to the spine to cue leg movement, researchers say. The ...

A woman who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in 2020 is suing devicemaker Boston Scientific and the FDA over complications she experienced with the device. Dena Lawler received the Spectra ...

An Ironman athlete, told she'd never walk again after an accident more than six years ago, is now part of an early clinical ...

To treat back pain, patients turn to physical rehab, steroid injections or even surgery. But this noninvasive, natural ...

Medtronic and Boston Scientific both face patient lawsuits related to spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technologies.

How Our Lungs Back Up the Bone Marrow to Make Our Blood ... between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could ...

Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves ... This is called transcranial magnetic stimulation, and it's done outside of ...