The appropriate use of neurostimulation: Stimulation of the intracranial and extracranial space and head for chronic pain

Neuromodulation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 551-570

  Deer, Timothy R ^a   Mekhail, Nagy ^b   Petersen, Erika ^c   Krames, Elliot ^d   Staats, Peter ^e,f   Pope, Jason ^a   Saweris, Youssef ^b   Lad, Shivanand P ^g   Diwan, Sudhir ^h   Falowski, Steven ⁱ   Feler, Claudio ^j,k   Slavin, Konstantin ^l   Narouze, Samer ^m   Merabet, Lotfi ⁿ   Buvanendran, Asokumar ^o   Fregni, Felipe ^p   Wellington, Joshua ^q   Levy, Robert M ^r  

^a Center for Pain Relief   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d Pacific Pain Treatment Centers   (United States)

^e Premier Pain Management Centers   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ University of Tennessee ^*

^j UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^k Valley View Hospital   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^m Summa Western Reserve Hospital   (United States)

ⁿ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^o RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^p and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^q INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cranial nerve stimulation; deep brain stimulation; migraine; motor cortex stimulation; neurostimulation; occipital nerve stimulation; peripheral nerve stimulation; trigeminal nerve stimulation; vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CARDIOLOGIST; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIAL NERVE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION; LAMINECTOMY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MIGRAINE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SCALP; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINE; STIMULATION; TENSION HEADACHE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALGESIA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACIAL PAIN; HEADACHE DISORDERS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES;

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANALGESICS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACIAL PAIN; HEADACHE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEUROSURGERY; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84905962624     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ner.12215     Document Type: Article

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