Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

What is Peripheral Nerve Stimulation?

Peripheral nerve stimulation is a drug-free pain management approach that uses mild electrical impulses to block pain signals from various parts of your body before they get to your brain.

With these systems, most patients will not be aware of these electrical impulses.  A small percentage of patients may feel a gentle tingling sensation called paresthesia.  Thin wires, called leads, are placed under the skin near the nerves that are associated with the pain, and an implantable pulse generator (IPG) is placed under the skin and connected to the leads to provide the electrical impulses.

How does it work?

You can think of each of your nerves as a single-line telephone that can only carry one conversation at a time.  Since the leads are already sending a signal to the brain through the nerves that normally carry the pain signal, the line is busy, and the pain signal does not get to the brain.  As long as the stimulation signal is on the line, the pain signal cannot get through.

How can the Nalu Neurostimulation System relieve your chronic pain?

Chronic pain is pain that lasts more than a few months.  It can be present all the time or may come and go.  This type of pain can be caused by many factors, including aging of bones and joints, injuries that have not healed properly, and peripheral nerve injury or inflammation.  If conservative treatment options have failed, peripheral nerve stimulation may provide the relief you are searching for.

The Nalu Neurostimulation System may be able to reduce the pain by blocking the pain signals on the nerve that carries those signals to your brain.  This may help reduce chronic pain in your shoulder, back, arm, leg, foot, or ankle.

This may provide pain relief where other treatments have failed.  Our Physicians will work with you to determine if neurostimulation is a promising therapy for your individual pain.  Should it be an option, you can try it before you fully commit to the system.