Spinal cord stimulation: A review

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-42

  Compton, Aaron K ^a   Shah, Binit ^b   Hayek, Salim M ^b  

^a Schneck Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Complex regional pain syndrome; CRPS; Failed back surgery syndrome; FBSS; Neuromodulation; Neuropathic pain; Pain; Pain management; Review; SCS; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ANGINA PECTORIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COMPLICATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DURAL PUNCTURE; EQUIPMENT; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEAD MIGRATION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEROMA; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857634745     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0238-7     Document Type: Review

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