Spinal cord stimulators can significantly improve patients’ lives. The province doesn’t fund nearly enough of them, experts say.

Although it might seem unimposing, many people may not know that a medical device worn on the foot can be a solution to one of the most common causes of joint pain in the world: osteoarthritis. Also ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Eighteen months ago, I had surgery on my back to relieve the nerve pain that radiates down my leg. It didn't help as much as I'd hoped, and my doctor says additional surgery isn't ...

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This handout photo released by the University of Maryland School of Medicine on January 10, 2022 shows surgeons performing a transplant of a heart from a genetically ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health is currently hosting a program searching for new medical devices that could help treat and diagnose a range of health conditions, both physical and psychological. The ...

The pitch from Stimwave, a medical device maker, was alluring. As a startup tackling chronic pain with nerve-stimulating devices, it promised to release patients from the stranglehold of addictive ...

“Cervical traction devices work by gently pulling the head away from the neck, which increases the space between the vertebrae,” he says. The decompression can help reduce pressure on the ...

A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a small, soft, flexible implant that relieves pain on demand and without the use of drugs. The first-of-its-kind device could provide a ...

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