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Chronic pain treatment puts a buzz in pain's place
Living with chronic pain often requires trade-offs such as losing social time to gain rest or dulling the senses to ease pain with medications. But researchers say a new pain-control option--electric stimulators that are implanted near the spine--may allow patients to exchange their pain with a low-grade buzzing sensation. A reporter from The New York Times talks to doctors about this treatment, and she also interviews patients who say their lives have been changed by using the devices.
(New York Times) UPDATED 01/08/2008Click here to read the full story
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