SPINAL CORD STIMULATION

Many causes of chronic spinal and extremity pain arise either after surgery or are deemed not treatable by surgery or other injection-based therapy.  If appropriate, spinal cord stimulation (or SCS) may be recommended.  SCS is a nerve modulation intervention that delivers electrical signals to the spinal cord to modify pain signals acsending through the spine to the brain.  SCS is a minimally invasive implanted device that helps people manage chronic pain and reduce the use of pain medications, providing a remarkable increase in quality of life for many