Improving patient experience with spinal cord stimulation: Implications of position-related changes in neurostimulation

Neuromodulation

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages 36-41

  Ross, Edgar ^a   Abejõn, David ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Impedance; paresthesia; postural changes; spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; LEAD;

ACCELEROMETER; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DATA BASE; DERMATOME; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL SPACE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PARESTHESIA PERCEPTION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION; SENSOR; SITTING; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION SYSTEM; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SUPINE POSITION; WALKING; WHITE MATTER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

EID: 84903574944     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2011.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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