Small Device Provides Big Pain Relief: ; City Doctor Helped to Develop Spinal Cord Stimulator
Charleston Gazette › August 07, 2008
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It's no coincidence Charleston anesthesiologist Tim Deer was the first physician to implant the world's smallest rechargeable spinal cord stimulator in patients who suffer from chronic pain.
Dr. Deer, a pain medicine specialist with St. Francis Hospital, helped to develop and test the silver-dollar-size medical device over the past five years.See the full content of this document
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Small Device Provides Big Pain Relief: ; City Doctor Helped to Develop Spinal Cord Stimulator
"It's like a pacemaker for the spine," Deer explained. "I have the ideas, the engineers make it work."
Deer plans to implant three people with the neu...See the full content of this document
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