One treatment for ongoing back pain following spine surgery - sometimes referr
ed to as failed back syndrome, is a spinal cord stimulator. A spinal cord stimulator uses electrical impulses to help relieve chronic back pain. Previous blog entries have highlighted this procedure.
Dr. Jonathan Gentile, MD, a minimally invasive spine specialist with Indiana Spine Group, implants spinal cord stimulators - when indicated - in patients suffering from failed back syndrome. To watch him discuss this procedure, click here.
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