Peripheral neuromodulation: A review

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Goroszeniuk, Teodor ^a   Pang, David ^b  

^a Interventional Pain Management and Neuromodulation Practice   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pain; Percuatneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS); Peripheral nerve stimulation; Peripheral neuromodulation; Subcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (SENS)

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACE PAIN; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR; LUMBAR PLEXUS STIMULATION; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OCCIPITAL NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE FIELD STIMULATION; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; ULNAR NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84896557061     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0412-9     Document Type: Review

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