Medtronic said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new spinal-cord implant that relieves chronic pain, a bid to expand into a patient population that relies heavily on medications ...

Closed-loop sensing capability instantly and automatically adjusts therapy while treating chronic pain DUBLIN, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in healthcare ...

Patients are suing medical device makers for selling spinal cord stimulators to treat chronic back pain but allegedly triggered worsening pain and electric shocks. The complaints, however, will face a ...

Inceptiv is a small device, implanted in the lower torso with leads to the spinal cord, that provides responsive counter-stimulation to relieve chronic pain. The device was approved by the FDA in ...

Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a new implantable pain management device that can be programmed wirelessly via a Samsung tablet. The Intellis system is designed to treat chronic pain by ...

David Dinsmoor, the local Medtronic engineer who worked on Inceptiv Medtronic researchers say a recently approved closed-loop spinal cord stimulator marks one of the company’s biggest breakthroughs in ...

How Medtronic spinal cord stimulation therapy helped one woman reclaim her life. For more than a decade, Lynnette lived in the shadow of debilitating pain. What began as persistent discomfort in her ...

Spinal cord stimulators are mainly used to treat chronic back pain, especially when other less invasive treatments have not worked. They also aim to reduce people's reliance on risky pain medicines.