January: John Mansell, MD, a pain management physician, became the first in Wyoming ... February: Globus Medical announced plans to acquire Nevro Corp., a spinal cord stimulator company, for $250 ...

Patients implanted with a spinal cord simulation system reported less severe pain from baseline to follow up. Treatment also improved sensory nerve function and thermoregulation in extremities.

While the brain's contribution to the encoding and processing of pain has been widely explored in the past, the role that neural circuits in the spinal cord play in the differentiation of physical ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC ... Nurses should watch for early symptoms (particularly pain), obtain a thorough history, perform a complete physical examination, and teach the patient and his ...

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 ...

In spinal cord stimulation, wash-in time refers to the period it takes for the stimulation to start producing clinically significant pain relief after the stimulation is turned on. Evaluating wash-in ...

Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

Conclusions This report presents a case where spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain resulted in an improvement in the patient's Parkinsonian symptoms. We suggest that future studies should ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...