Charles Amaral de Oliveira, MD, will implant the first Stimwave Wireless Pain Relief device in patients in Brazil.
Here are four points:
1. Dr. Amaral de Oliveira treats patients at Singular Centro de Controle da Dor in Campinas, Sao Paolo.
2. The minimally invasive procedures will occur as part of the 4th Conference of the Brazilian Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, held in Campinas from July 6 to July 9.
3. Providers offer the Stimwave technology as an alternative treatment to opioids for chronic pain.
4. Stimwave spinal cord stimulator devices send small energy pulses to nerves, triggering reactions to alter pain pathways.