The device has to come off to do a MRI, and once in place further MRI’s CANNOT be done. There is enough research out there that this Medtronic device is a bad customer for the patient. The glowing reports on their web site are useally fake.
You have to dig into the blogs to find the truth, patients are left in worse condition than before the implant.It does not take long for scar tissue to form over the probe placed in your spine by the Medtronic Rep, not a doctor. . Once that happens it cannot be removed with out much bigger damage. And you are not completely under when they do it either, as they have to check your responses to it as they tune it.
This is a virtual spine, touch a disc and it will tell you what the spinal nerve root controls. The L3-5 control a lot more than people realize, Colon, bladder, legs, etc.
http://www.echiropractic.net/nervechart.htm
trussell — please read GailA’s post 322 and definitely do more research and get more medical opinions before doing anything permanent.
Thanks, GailA for the information — you do sound like you know what you are talking about. Hopefully trussell will indeed get other opinions before doing anything permanent.