Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Stimulator LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#938 of 1000 · 438 reports · 2021–2026
- BOOK 438 reports
- RANK #938 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 242 injury-typed
- MALF 196 malfunction
- SPAN 2021–2026
- PEAK 2025: 149
- PHOTO Lithotriptor
Nearest event-volume peer: Lithotriptor, Electro-Hydraulic (0 report gap)
Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief sits #938 of 1000 among tracked device types with 438 MAUDE reports spanning 2021–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Stimulator carries 55.3% INJURY-coded reports, 25.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 55.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+25.0 pp)
- MALF 44.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-20.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 51% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC INC. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 99% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
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Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief
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What this shows Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief carries 438 MAUDE reports, ranked #938 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 149 in 2025, up from an average of 81 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
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Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Stimulator carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (438 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Stimulator; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.