Well, we know what happened in the early 1900's......more than 200,000 people addicted to opium so Congress passed a law in 1909 prohibiting the manufacture and sale of opium.
1915-1951- The Violet Ray Generator. Tens of thousands were sold. The claim was it cured paralysis, wry neck and writer's cramp among other things. In 1951 the FDA banned the manufacture from claiming it provided medical cures.
1919: The Electreat: (The TENS device): Patented by Charles Willie Kent, operated on two "D" batteries and a mechanical inductorium. A roller was at the top and applied to the skin, plug in sponge pad electrodes were supplied to the area.
1939: Remember I said 200,000 people are addicted to opium? Germany was the first to synthesize Methadone for pain relief.
1944-1948: The opening of Nerve Block Clinics which were devoted to the treatment of pain.
1967: Neurostimulators: implantation was done on six patients in 1970 by Neurosurgeon C. Norman Shealy.
1972: The neurostimulators were first marketed to neurosurgeons but the device was renamed to spinal cord stimulators.
1976: First totally implantable neurostimulator: The Cardiac pacemaker.
1980's: Epidurals. This is the use of opioids administered directly into the spinal column.
1997: IDET: Intradiscal electrothermic therapy was introduced as treatment for chronic low back pain. This involves killing nerve fibers by heating a catheter positioned inside the spinal disc.
2004-2005: The first rechargeable spinal cord stimulation systems became available in the U.S.
2008: St. Jude Medical introduces the longest lasting rechargeable neurostimulator to treat chronic pain of the trunk or limbs and pain from failed back surgery....the Eon Mini. (Advanced Neuromodulation Systems. Eon Neurostimulation System Clinician's Manual. Plano, Tex.; 2005) 2010 Approved in Japan.
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