Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices that are surgically implanted in the body to treat long-term pain. They have a battery pack and leads that deliver electrical impulses directly to the ...

Ian Harris receives funding from research organisations unrelated to spinal cord stimulators. He was interviewed for the Four Corners episode referred to. Adrian C Traeger receives research funding ...

Regional Medical Center offers spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain through Ryan Sankovic, MD, the first physician to bring the therapy to the region.  Dr. Sankovic specializes in physical ...

Spinal cord stimulators are mainly used to treat chronic back pain, especially when other less invasive treatments have not worked. They also aim to reduce people's reliance on risky pain medicines.

For those living with chronic pain, an advanced therapy called Spinal Cord Stimulation may offer life-changing results and a renewed quality of life. Ryan Sankovic, M.D., is a double board-certified ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

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 ...

Christopher Maher holds a research fellowship funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. Caitlin Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...