I also was happy to find out he uses them also most of the research I've done shows the paddles a less likely to migrate. a little more healing time from what I have heard here in the forum but I look @ this way if it's a road to less pain I'm willing to do it in the long run. Also was happy to find out he uses the adaptive stim unit by medtronics. Unfortunately they have not made the paddles scan safe yet so it I will not be able to do a full body Mri but I'm not going to let that stop the whole process.