Sunday, August 7, 2011

Electrical Implants Short-Circuit Back Pain

Ricardo Andrietti loves to paint and spend time in his enormous garden. But a case of shingles left him with excruciating pain for nearly seven years. Doctors tried everything. They even got special dispensation to prescribe a dose of pain medication that Ricardo says was nearly a hundred times the normal dose. Even that only partially-controlled the pain. "One of the procedures of last resort is the spinal chord stimulator," says Ohio Health Interventional Radiologist Dr. Mark Dean. With th

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