Spinal Cord Stimulation: An Update

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-99

  Falowski, Steven ^a   Celii, Amanda ^a   Sharan, Ashwini ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic pain; dorsal column stimulation; neuropathic pain; pacemaker; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; SILICONE; TITANIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COMPUTER MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPAREUNIA; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRODE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LAMINECTOMY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB PAIN; LIQUORRHEA; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PARALYSIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTLAMINECTOMY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; RADIOFREQUENCY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; X RAY;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; PAIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 37349103410     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.10.066     Document Type: Article

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