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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.

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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

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief carries 438 MAUDE reports, ranked #938 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 242 (55.3%)
Malfunction 196 (44.7%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Other 203 (48.7%)
188 (45.1%)
Required Intervention 10 (2.4%)
O 5 (1.2%)
Life Threatening 4 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.7%)
H 1 (0.2%)
R 1 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 232
Failure to Conduct 181
Migration 23
Failure to Deliver Shock/Stimulation 7
Fracture 4
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 1
Device Damaged by Another Device 1
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 1
High impedance 1
Impedance Problem 1
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 1
Malposition of Device 1
Mechanical Problem 1
No Apparent Adverse Event 1

Yearly Trend

21
2021: 4
22
2022: 27
23
2023: 58
24
2024: 103
25
2025: 149
26
2026: 97

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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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

434 (99.1%)
I 4 (0.9%)

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.

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.