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Spinal-cord stimulators: A pain-relief alternative to opioids

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Lushunya Wallace has severe lower back and leg pain that she can't explain, and it's been dogging her for about two years.The Northeast Side resident has undergone therapy. She has had steroid injections. And she's used medications. But nothing helped much.So Wallace decided to try a spinal-cord stimulator. The device, consisting of wires and a battery, controls pain by delivering electrical impulses to the spine or nerves to block pain signals, a form of neuromodulation.Such [...]

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