FDA Clears New Neurostimulation System for Chronic Pain

[Patatri]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Abbott Laboratories’ new Proclaim Plus spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system featuring FlexBurst360 therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic pain. The "next generation" of its proprietary BurstDR stimulation, FlexBurst360 therapy, provides pain coverage across up to six areas of the trunk and limbs, with programming that can be adjusted as a patient's individual therapeutic needs evolve

[Notan]

@patatri More than 50 million people in the United States experience chronic pain and most have pain in more than one area of the body. Steven Falowski, MD, with Argires Marotti Neurosurgical Associates of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, noted in the release that spinal cord stimulation has provided "tremendous relief" for patients with chronic pain.