Spinal Cord Stimulation, And How It Works
Nearly 65 million Americans suffer from some amount of back pain and about 16 million of them–approximately 8% of the adult population–experience chronic back pain. Back pain is considered the sixth most costly condition in the US, with health care and indirect costs racking up over $12 billion per year. Of course, even other pains go through the central nervous system (CNS) to your brain, so what can you do about it? Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a neuromodulation process that helps block pain signals and helps avoid back surgery. How does it work? Let’s investigate. (more…)