In the two years since the beginning of Florida’s pill mill crackdown, doctors, drug dealers, and drug abusers who are only interested in exploiting the system have been driven out of the state in large numbers. But even legitimate doctors with patients who face real pain are taking more time to discuss and explore alternatives to drugs for pain management. One alternative is a class of high-tech devices with none of the potential addictive effects or complications of opioid painkillers.<\/p>\n
Patients with chronic pain now have available to them devices that send electrical signals to the brain in order to block the sensation of pain. They have the support of Medicare, the insurance industry, and the FDA. This is critical to ensure patient access.<\/p>\n
One such device, a spinal cord stimulator, is implanted in fatty tissue in the lower back near the spine. The system sends electrical signals to the spinal cord that (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the two years since the beginning of Florida’s pill mill crackdown, doctors, drug dealers, and drug abusers who are only interested in exploiting the system have been driven out of the state in large numbers. But even legitimate doctors…<\/span><\/p>\n