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 ...
What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Burst stimulation yielded more positive results compared with tonic stimulation. No serious adverse events were ...
After racking up more than 30 years’ worth of experience in treating chronic pain, spinal cord stimulators have recently begun to expand their remit. Even as the devices continue to tack on new ...
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 ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Medtronic can’t be sued by a man who alleged the company’s spinal cord stimulator malfunctioned, according to a document filed March 25.
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 ...
Independent studies suggested that spinal cord stimulation improved chronic pain no more than placebo, but industry-funded critics cast doubt on these findings, researchers said. Recently published ...
HONOLULU — Adding intermittent theta-burst trans-spinal magnetic stimulation to treadmill training is safe and improves gait and other motor symptoms in adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD), new ...
In past research, Calvert and others in the field have been able to restore control over muscle movement for these patients ...
A pilot clinical trial found electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is feasible, well-tolerated and shows therapeutic potential to treat depression. Principal investigator Francisco Romo-Nava, MD, ...