Due to our advanced knowledge and technologies, The Hemlock Pain Center in Macon, Warner Robins, Dublin, and Milledgeville, Georgia, can actually disrupt the pain signals sent from your nerves to your brain. Our board-certified anesthesiologists and pain management specialists, Drs Stephen N. Tafor and Sandeep Datta, may safely disrupt these signals to ease pain and promote your healthiest, fullest life with interventions like peripheral nerve stimulators (PNS).
What is PNS?
This therapy uses medical devices that deliver low-level electrical impulses to peripheral nerves to manage chronic pain. The PNS, in turn, targets specific nerves to block or modify the peripheral nervous system’s pain response. The pain signals do not have a chance to reach your brain because they are blocked by this “stimulation” with mild electrical impulses.
What type of pain do you treat with PNS?
Our specialists may treat both acute and chronic nerve pain. We have had great success helping patients with everything from knee and shoulder pain, to foot/ankle pain and cluneal nerve pain (affecting the nerves in the lumbar spine or lower back and pelvic region). PNS helps reduce patients’ reliance on pain medications and supports improved mobility and range of motion. Since our patients are able to move better and without debilitating pain, they can make the most out of physical therapy and get back to the activities that they love and that keep them active, engaged, and healthy.
