Recovery for the trial is only a few days generally. This is because the only thing that gets implanted along your spine is the wired lead to the stimulator. Yet, the permanent implant means that they would surgically insert all of the hardware in your body: the stimulator, the lead, etc.. There is a lot more to that surgery, so that is going to take a lot longer to heal from. What that total time would be, I truly do not know (though I heard recovery time MIGHT be right around 3 months). The permanent implantation is a pretty significant surgery.

You may have already checked this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqWUPPAxsM

AND--- This is the company that made the stimulator that my surgeon used:

http://www.bostonscientific.com/en-U...r-systems.html