{"id":124374,"date":"2021-06-28T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mind-blowing-inflatable-spinal-cord-implant-could-make-pain-relief-widely-available"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:22:45","slug":"mind-blowing-inflatable-spinal-cord-implant-could-make-pain-relief-widely-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mind-blowing-inflatable-spinal-cord-implant-could-make-pain-relief-widely-available","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Blowing \u2018Inflatable\u2019 Spinal Cord Implant Could Make Pain Relief Widely Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-blowing-inflatable-spinal-cord-implant-could-make-pain-relief-widely-available2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have revealed a fascinating new design for an incredibly tiny, inflatable spinal cord implant, suited for treating severe chronic back pain that doesn\u2019t respond to medication.<\/p>\n<p>The inflatable electronic device is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mayfieldclinic.com\/pe-stim.htm\">spinal cord stimulator<\/a> (SCS) setup, a type of well-established therapy that delivers mild electric currents to a person\u2019s spinal cord via implanted electrodes. That current is sent by a small, implanted pulse generator device, and the whole thing reduces pain because the electrical pulses help to mask pain signals traveling to the brain via the spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>If that all sounds rather invasive, that\u2019s because it is. But this new device, designed by a team led by scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK, could help to change that \u2014 with less invasive surgery requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have revealed a fascinating new design for an incredibly tiny, inflatable spinal cord implant, suited for treating severe chronic back pain that doesn\u2019t respond to medication. The inflatable electronic device is part of a spinal cord stimulator (SCS) setup, a type of well-established therapy that delivers mild electric currents to a person\u2019s spinal cord [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}