Comparison of Spinal Cord Stimulators from Boston Sci., Nevro

My name is Glen and i have had the Nevro HF10 spinal stimulator implanted since Sept 1, 2021 and the company rep hasn't been able to dial it in on my terrible lower back pain yet. I have complete confidence in this unit because the temporary one that they inserted worked unbelievably well. It's been 6 months and counting with no relief thus far. I'm hoping to reach out and hear from anyone out there about their experiences with this Nevro unit. Please help if you can! Thank You!

I had the Nevro trial implanted in March for 5 days. I only got about 25 to 35% pain relief for my lower back and the toes of my right foot. I was expecting at least 50% relief. I did not choose to have the permanent one implanted. About 4 weeks ago I went to a different pain management doctor and tried the Boston Scientific wave runner SCS seven day trial. Unfortunately one of the leads came out and the other lead had moved. Not sure what my next move will be. Perhaps a pain pump trial. Has anyone tried the CALMARE SCRAMBLER therapy for neuropathy /nerve pain?

Calmare Scrambler Therapy seems to be a very effective option for neuropathic pain. Here's an article about it by the provider in New Jersey, Dr. Michael Cooney: https://www.paintreatmentdirectory.com/posts/calmare-therapy-for-neuropathic-pain-relief

I have heard of Dr. Michael Cooney. Unfortunatley, he is an hour and fifteen minutes from me. You have to go every week day for 2 weeks. Might be to much driving for me. I can't seem to find any other practitioner closer to where I live. Thank you

My name is Glen and i have had the Nevro HF10 spinal stimulator implanted since Sept 1, 2021 and the company rep hasn't been able to dial it in on my terrible lower back pain yet. I have complete confidence in this unit because the temporary one that they inserted worked unbelievably well. It's been 6 months and counting with no relief thus far. I'm hoping to reach out and hear from anyone out there about their experiences with this Nevro unit. Please help if you can! Thank You!

Hi Glen, my name is Ann and I have the same unit, was implanted September 2022. Still playing with the program as my excruciating back/leg/groin pain has disappeared completely on the right side but now having pain in my left side so we’re working on that. As I don’t know the extent of your pain or why you had it implanted in the first place, I don’t think I could recommend the right program to try. However, I’m currently set at 1 on the ladder and program 1. We’ve been up and down like crazy but I’m currently trying this for 2 days then my rep. is going to walk me through how to set it to below the program 1 leaving the ladder at 1 also. You could give that a try if nothing else seems to be working for you - you shouldn’t be still going through this after six months. Please let me know how it works for you. Take care and I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

I have heard of Dr. Michael Cooney. Unfortunatley, he is an hour and fifteen minutes from me. You have to go every week day for 2 weeks. Might be to much driving for me. I can't seem to find any other practitioner closer to where I live. Thank you

I have not yet tried the Calmare, but hear it works wonders. The trick is finding one. Go to calmarett.org. you should be pleased if you have one in your area. Conn and N.J. seem to be very successful. Goon Luck.

My name is Glen and i have had the Nevro HF10 spinal stimulator implanted since Sept 1, 2021 and the company rep hasn't been able to dial it in on my terrible lower back pain yet. I have complete confidence in this unit because the temporary one that they inserted worked unbelievably well. It's been 6 months and counting with no relief thus far. I'm hoping to reach out and hear from anyone out there about their experiences with this Nevro unit. Please help if you can! Thank You!

Did you try this?
"Often, people with neuropathy are forced to seek out invasive procedures – surgery, implanted devices (SCS) or resort to the use of powerful narcotics, such as Ketamine, where success has been uneven, but side effects are often debilitating. In 2010, as a pain management provider, I wasn’t comfortable recommending these types of ‘next level’ neuropathic pain treatment for medication-and treatment-resistant patients. I knew there had to be a better option and began looking in Europe for new pain therapies which were drug-free.

Through a contact in Italy, I discovered scrambler therapy, which checked all the boxes—no side effects, painless to undergo, highly effective for neuropathic pain treatment and, most importantly, drug-free.

Our goal was simply to help lessen our local patients’ chronic pain.

But after sharing a few positive scrambler therapy patient outcomes on our website, we quickly began attracting patients from coast-to-coast and around the globe, including Australia, the UK, South Africa and South America for neuropathic pain treatment.

Today, we treat children, adults and seniors battling fibromyalgia, neuropathy after chemotherapy treatment, complex regional pain syndrome and pain that develops after surgery or from diabetes. We have also treated many people who developed chronic nerve pain after a shingles diagnosis (PHN).

How Scrambler Therapy Works

When someone is injured, the brain sets up a process to heal the injury. For example, cells carry away dead tissue or blood flow is increased to the area. Eventually, the brain realizes the injury has healed, and it cuts off the pain message.

For some people, the brain never sends the all-important message, “there’s no more injury here, we’re healed, so you can stop sending that pain signal.”

That’s where the ‘scrambler’ therapy device comes in. Using small electrodes judiciously placed in the region of the injury (but not directly on the pain site), the freestanding technology sends a mild “no pain” message to the brain through the electrodes.

This message overrides the brain’s pain message signal and corrects it, over a series of one treatment daily for an average of 10 days, to a ‘there’s no pain here” message.

In many cases, pain is lessened for the patient as soon as the first scrambler therapy treatment.

Regardless of how long they've had the condition, many patients are completely pain-free at the end of the 10 days of treatment. This is unmatched by any other neuropathic pain treatment.

Calmare Therapy is Safe and Effective

There have been clinical trials performed at several high-profile research facilities here in the United States, including at the Mayo Clinic and at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Positive results have been found with CRPS, Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, low back pain, post-herpetic neuralgia. There have also been many clinical reports of successful treatment of fibromyalgia.

We keep an updated list of these studies on our Clinical Trials web page, so people with specific neuropathic pain conditions can use them as a reference.

When a skilled clinician places the leads in the optimal positions on each trial participant’s body, in accordance with their original injury site, the results are excellent.

For more detailed information, you can watch this very informative hour-long Grand Rounds review (by doctors for doctors) about scrambler therapy, “Calmare Therapy – An Innovative Pain Treatment: What Is It?” presented by the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, a partnership between Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

The Calmare MC-5A device has been tested in multi-year clinical trials at some of the most prestigious research institutions, including the Massey Cancer Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mayo Clinic and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In addition, it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."