A man left with incontinence and partial paralysis in the legs after spinal surgery received a $1.25 million settlement in his Essex County medical malpractice suit on Aug. 2. Orlando Figueroa was 61 ...

Patients across the U.S. have filed lawsuits in federal court against Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Nevro alleging spinal cord stimulator devices caused injuries including ...

New research from the University of Sydney reveals surgically implanted spinal cord stimulators—a common treatment for lower back pain which aims to disrupt pain signals traveling to the brain—are ...

Patients say a popular pain relief procedure left them paralyzed or seriously injured after undergoing treatment at Nura Pain Clinic in Edina. Kevin Prybilla of Blaine received the spinal cord ...

A series of converging advances in bio-implant technology, from brain-spine interfaces to lab-grown spinal tissue, is bringing the long-elusive goal of spinal cord repair closer to clinical reality.

CLEVELAND — Four years after a distracted driver ran an intersection and shattered his pelvis, David Dunham was still living in a wheelchair, still unable to sleep through the night, and still being ...

Memorial Hospital hosted the first U.S. surgery using Signus USA’s VertaConnect spinal implant system. The procedure was performed July 3 by spinal surgeon Ngoc-Lam Nguyen, MD. The VertaConnect system ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger—able to stand and walk more easily—when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord. On Wednesday, researchers ...

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin ...