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Introduction of electrical stimulation therapy

The principle of electrical stimulation therapy is to implant electrodes percutaneously into the patient's spinal canal, stimulate the spinal nerves with pulses of electricity, and then send weak electrical impulses to the spinal cord through the pacemaker system implanted in the patient's body to block the transmission of pain signals to the brain through the spinal cord, thus relieving intractable neuropathic pain, restoring the patient's body functions, and effectively improving the quality of life. During the operation, experts also installed a patient outside the body and the implanted device connected to the body of the "remote control", the patient in the future according to need, according to the doctor's instructions independent "remote control" to reduce pain. Experts said that the therapy is innovative physical therapy, to avoid the use of analgesic drugs to patients with side effects.