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 ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have developed a new spinal stimulator that can help restore lower limb function to paralyzed patients. The tiny device can be non-invasively implanted through a syringe.

Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. On ...

A Johns Hopkins materials scientist and collaborators have developed a tiny device that may hold promise for restoring mobility to those with lower limb paralysis, a condition affecting approximately ...

Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore both ...

Jun. 1—MORGANTOWN — WVU Medicine pain doctors took a first step in offering back pain patients more reliable pain relief. They did their first implant of the Medtronic Inceptiv spinal cord stimulator.

A man who lived with chronic pain for years says he may have gotten the best Christmas present of all. Jeffrey Hardick remembers the day his life changed in 2001. "I was lifting sheet metal, and I got ...

Marc Gauthier had trouble getting up from a chair. His steps were small and shaky and he would fall five or six times a day. His Parkinson's disease had gotten so bad he couldn't be left alone. The ...

Though standard spinal cord stimulation systems can be a major help in treating chronic pain, they may induce uncomfortable sensations themselves as users’ everyday movements cause them to shift ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular ...