Appetite suppression and weight loss incidental to spinal cord stimulation for pain relief

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1272-1274

  Pereira, Eugene ^a   Foster, Allison ^b  

^a Belleville Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b Advanced Bionics/Boston Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetite; Body weight changes; Electric stimulation; Epidural analgesia; Intractable pain; Morbid obesity; Nerve stimulation; Overweight; Satiation

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUPUS VULGARIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULITIS; SKIN TINGLING; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STEROID THERAPY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

APPETITE REGULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 38549109512     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9217-9     Document Type: Article

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