Implanted occipital nerve stimulators

Pain Physician

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-200

  Jasper, Joseph F ^a,c   Hayek, Salim M ^b  

^a Advanced Pain Medicine Department   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervicogenic headache; Chronic daily headache; Cluster headache; Headache; Migraine; Neuromodulation; Neurostimulation; Occipital neuralgia; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Stimulator; Transformed migraine

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOREIGN BODY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MEDLINE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 42249091307     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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