"Tiny Implant Revolutionizes Way Doctors Can Treat Chronic Nerve Pain" - Max Gomez
Nothing brought Matthew Magliaccio much relief for his phantom limb pain until he went to see Dr. David Spinner, DO, director of pain management at Mount Sinai Health System, who decided to try a new pain blocker, called a Bioness StimRouter. It’s a tiny electrode, a small transmitter and a controller that pulse small electric pulses into the nerves carrying the pain signals. “Pain often comes from hyper-excitable nerve fibers that are easy to fire. So by taking that away and making the nerve fire more normally, we’re able to block a lot of the pain,” Dr. Spinner says. Unlike other electrical pain blockers, the device isn’t inserted into the spinal column. It’s placed directly on a peripheral nerve in a 15 minute procedure under local anesthesia.
- David Spinner, DO, Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Pain Management, Mount Sinai Health System
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