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Nalu neurostimulation may finally deliver the long-term relief you’ve been looking for.

Chronic pain is pain that lasts more than a few months, and sometimes years. It can be there all the time or may come and go. This type of pain can be caused by many factors, including aging of bones and joints, injuries that have not healed properly, and various diseases. If conservative treatment options have failed, nerve stimulation may provide the relief you and your physician are searching for. The Nalu neurostimulation system may be able to reduce the pain by blocking the pain signals on the nerves that carry those signals to your brain. Your physician will choose the appropriate place for the Nalu micro-IPG and the tiny leads, depending upon your anatomy.

Chronic pain in the back or legs can be hard to treat. Even therapies that seem to work can stop working after a while. We identified the challenges and shortcomings of other stimulation systems and created a system that can offer patients a more livable alternative. To do that, we engineered a novel system based on proprietary advanced micro-electronics. Our system is considerably smaller than other neurostimulation systems and a lot easier to manage. You may find that it’s the pain solution you’ve been hoping for.

What is neurostimulation?

Neurostimulation is a proven drug-free pain management approach that uses mild electrical impulses to interrupt pain signals before they get to your brain. A small device called an implantable pulse generator (IPG) is placed underneath the skin and generates mild electrical pulses that are delivered through thin insulated wires called leads. These pulses may be delivered to nerves within your spinal cord or to a peripheral nerve that is associated with your pain. The pulses stimulate the targeted nerves and interrupt the body’s pain signals as they travel to the brain.

How does it work?

You can think of each of your nerves as a single-line telephone that can only carry one conversation at a time. Since the leads are already sending a signal to the brain through the nerves that normally carry the pain signal, the line is busy and the pain signal does not get to the brain. As long as the stimulation signal is on the line, the pain signal cannot get through.