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 ...

Seáñez said the proof-of-concept study is a first step toward developing a noninvasive brain-spine interface that uses real-time predictions to deliver transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation to ...

Myelopathy refers to a cluster of symptoms that result from spinal cord compression. This can occur from trauma, inflammation, tumors, or the aging-related degeneration of the spine. Spinal cord ...

A Kentucky woman is suing Medtronic and the FDA alleging that the devicemaker’s spinal cord stimulator made her pain worse and that the agency didn’t diligently review updates to the implant. Angela ...

Next Steps Chicago in Willow Springs is a non-profit rehabilitation facility and among the first in the country to use the spinal cord stimulation technology called Arc-Ex. Stream NBC 5 for free ...

“On February 13 my mum took me to hospital. I had an MRI scan and that’s when they found a 3cm tumour through my spinal cord which would require urgent surgery.” He was operated on the next ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

Stimulating either of a pair of crucial nerves that carry messages from the brain to several major organs could be an effective way to treat people with severe depression. An international team of ...

Medtronic Inc. made a damaging spinal cord stimulator system and evaded rigorous regulatory scrutiny for decades of updates to the device, according to a patient’s lawsuit filed Friday. The US Food ...

The number of children’s spinal procedures carried out last year has “not greatly increased” when compared to 2022 despite new initiatives, minutes of a meeting of the taskforce on spinal ...