Have you ever whacked your thumb with a hammer? How did you try to alleiviate the pain? Rub it perhaps, or maybe you sucked it?
According to Dr. Jeffery Tiede, Columbia Inerventional Pain surgeon, you are simply relieving one sensation (pain) with another (pressure). That is how a spinal cord stimulator works. Stick in these wonderful electrodes and your back pain will soon be gone.
I’ll let you read it for yourself, I’m just glad I don’t have on-going back pain that would drive me to consider this as an option.
This story was reported on KUMO TV
