Just want pass along and share a treatment that can actually work for skeletal and joint pain.
Short story, my wife was an AO (ordinance man) at NAS Miramar (US Navy flight training). While there she was involved in a nasty car accident that messed her neck up pretty bad. She was young at the time and just powered through. We met and married in 1997, she was in perfect health. But now years later that injury is rearing it’s ugly head. She has terrible pain in her shoulders and neck, which in turn give her very bad migraines, the non manageable kind. She hates pain meds and mostly refuses to take prescription pain meds, just hates the side affects. By now though she is bone on bone in three of her neck vertebrae. We finally met with a spine specialist (terrible process to get referred) we talked about options. Disk replacement to spinal fusion. The Doctor looked me straight in the eye and told me that “if she were my wife, of all the options, I would do the spinal stimulator “.
This brings me to the meat of the conversation. This Specialist referred us to a Dr. Who installed the spinal stimulator. We went there and eventually did the trial stimulator. My wife walked out (out patient procedure) from that pain free for the first time in at least a decade.
For the stimulator install they surgically install leads like very small wires into your spinal column, (not touching the spinal cord) and run wires from those under the skin to just above the left hip bone in the fat pocket. There they make a small incision and instal a battery about the size of an Oreo cookie, hook it all up and you are done. The system is charged remotely and is controlled by a remote control.
With this remote control they will upload about 4-5 frequencies that can be switched between and intensity can be controlled up and down with the remote. What this does is intercept the pain signals going up the spine to the brain receptors. Basically the pain is technically still there but the brain doesn’t recognize the signal. Over time the body or brain may find a work around and receive the pain signals. We then go back in for a new program upload into the remote (done in office with a laptop computer) that changes frequency and it’s perfect again.
Now then, the frequency availability is almost unlimited and new ones created all the time. Now her’s is in the upper back to the base of skull, but they also can do lower back down to tailbone, or both.
The effectiveness is incredible. On different settings she can stimulate her neck, head, jaw, shoulders , elbows and even make her hands numb. So I would assume if installed in the lower back you possibly could stimulate the hips but not sure about knees and feet. At any rate it’s extremely effective, it’s drug free and helps huge with chronic pain. Here is a link to the Boston Scientific web page. Maybe it can help someone else live more pain free.
https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/patients-caregivers/device-support/scs/how-scs-works.html
Short story, my wife was an AO (ordinance man) at NAS Miramar (US Navy flight training). While there she was involved in a nasty car accident that messed her neck up pretty bad. She was young at the time and just powered through. We met and married in 1997, she was in perfect health. But now years later that injury is rearing it’s ugly head. She has terrible pain in her shoulders and neck, which in turn give her very bad migraines, the non manageable kind. She hates pain meds and mostly refuses to take prescription pain meds, just hates the side affects. By now though she is bone on bone in three of her neck vertebrae. We finally met with a spine specialist (terrible process to get referred) we talked about options. Disk replacement to spinal fusion. The Doctor looked me straight in the eye and told me that “if she were my wife, of all the options, I would do the spinal stimulator “.
This brings me to the meat of the conversation. This Specialist referred us to a Dr. Who installed the spinal stimulator. We went there and eventually did the trial stimulator. My wife walked out (out patient procedure) from that pain free for the first time in at least a decade.
For the stimulator install they surgically install leads like very small wires into your spinal column, (not touching the spinal cord) and run wires from those under the skin to just above the left hip bone in the fat pocket. There they make a small incision and instal a battery about the size of an Oreo cookie, hook it all up and you are done. The system is charged remotely and is controlled by a remote control.
With this remote control they will upload about 4-5 frequencies that can be switched between and intensity can be controlled up and down with the remote. What this does is intercept the pain signals going up the spine to the brain receptors. Basically the pain is technically still there but the brain doesn’t recognize the signal. Over time the body or brain may find a work around and receive the pain signals. We then go back in for a new program upload into the remote (done in office with a laptop computer) that changes frequency and it’s perfect again.
Now then, the frequency availability is almost unlimited and new ones created all the time. Now her’s is in the upper back to the base of skull, but they also can do lower back down to tailbone, or both.
The effectiveness is incredible. On different settings she can stimulate her neck, head, jaw, shoulders , elbows and even make her hands numb. So I would assume if installed in the lower back you possibly could stimulate the hips but not sure about knees and feet. At any rate it’s extremely effective, it’s drug free and helps huge with chronic pain. Here is a link to the Boston Scientific web page. Maybe it can help someone else live more pain free.
https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/patients-caregivers/device-support/scs/how-scs-works.html
