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FAST™ therapy

FAST™ therapy: Paresthesia-free pain relief in minutes

Boston Scientific’s proprietary FAST™ therapy is designed to provide profound paresthesia-free pain relief in minutes. Now patients can experience significant results before they leave your clinic, giving you and your patients confidence in their SCS therapy.

The next era of personalized therapy

Conventional paresthesia-free therapies take time to wash in. However, FAST™ therapy uses precise targeting and proper neural dosing for faster pain relief. FAST™ can also provide:

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Immediate pain relief and direct patient feedback¹⋅²

  • Send your patients home confidently.
  • Increased trust and confidence in the therapy
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Simplified therapy and patient management

  • Free up time for you and your patients by optimizing therapy from the beginning.
  • Low energy consumption for preserved device longevity and less need to recharge.
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Quick and easy programming

  • Immediately visible results that are quick to set up and easy to reproduce.
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1. Metzger et al. A novel fast-acting sub-perception spinal cord stimulation therapy enables rapid onset of analgesia in patients with chronic pain,
expert Review of Medical Devices 2021
2. Anitescu M., et al. Clinical impact of a novel fast-acting sub-perception SCS therapy engaging surround inhibition (FAST prospective study), NANS 2023.



Supported by real-world data

Published real-world data demonstrates the abilities of FAST™ therapy to provide paresthesia-free relief in just minutes. After activation of FAST™ therapy: 

  • Overall pain was reduced by a mean 5.2 ± 0.3 points versus pre-FAST therapy activation within 11.2 ± 1.9 minutes (N=34)³
  • Overall pain was reduced by a mean 7.0 ± 0.4 points (N = 41, p < 0.0001) at six month follow-up.
Graph of programming session overall pain
Graph of follow-up / ongoing overall pain

3. Anitescu M., et al. Clinical impact of a novel fast-acting subperception SCS therapy engaging surround inhibition (FAST prospective study), NANS 2023.
4. FAST MOA computational modeling by Dr. Warren Grill’s lab at Duke University. Gilbert et al. Computational modeling predicts dorsal columns are involved in fast-acting sub-perception spinal cord stimulation (SCS). SFN 2021. 

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