More than 26 million Americans suffer from Chronic Back Pain (CBP) every year at an estimated cost of more than $100 billion. It can have a devastating effect on the quality of work, sleep, exercise, and other aspects of everyday life for those who suffer from it. Many of these patients can be  helped  significantly with intensive rehab programs or spine surgery, but some select conditions are not amenable to these more main-stream approaches.  For this specific population of patients, there are new and incredible innovations that can be very effective. I recently came across a new device from the Boston Scientific Corporation called the “Precision Spectra Spinal Cord Stimulator.” Spinal Cord Stimulators (SCS) are implanted devices that use “contact points” to deliver electrical pulses to mask pain signals from being delivered to the brain. They have been used for just less than 10 years and are specifically designed to control chronic pain and even motor-function disabilities. Perhaps the biggest advantage of this device is that they can significantly reduce the need for pain medication, which can become highly addictive, expensive, and take a heavy toll on the body. One patient reportedly went from taking 260 milligrams of morphine daily