Specialists provide life-changing alternatives to prescription pain medication dependence

Excerpt from Deseret News: (click for entire article)

If he thinks about it, Mike Roman can feel a tingling sensation where his toes used to be.

The constant stream of electronic pulses, however, is much better than the intense burning he used to feel — similar, he said, to pliers ripping out each toenail one by one — before a pain management specialist implanted a spinal cord stimulator to deal with Roman's phantom limb pain.

It's a seasoned medical device that has come a long way in the last decade or so, said Dr. Richard Glines, interventional pain medicine specialist at St. Mark's Hospital.

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