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Burst spinal cord stimulation for limb and back pain.
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In contrast to tonic stimulation, burst stimulation was able to provide pain relief without the generation of paresthesias, permitting them to use a double-blinded placebo controlled approach.About:
This article is published in World Neurosurgery.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 317 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Referred pain & Back pain.read more
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The Appropriate Use of Neurostimulation of the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System for the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Ischemic Diseases: The Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee
Timothy R. Deer,Nagy Mekhail,David Provenzano,Jason E. Pope,Elliot S. Krames,Michael S. Leong,Robert M. Levy,David Abejón,Eric Buchser,Allen W. Burton,Asokumar Buvanendran,Kenneth D. Candido,David Caraway,Michael J. Cousins,Mike J. L. DeJongste,Sudhir Diwan,Sam Eldabe,Kliment Gatzinsky,Robert D. Foreman,Salim M. Hayek,Philip Kim,Philip Kim,Thomas M. Kinfe,David Kloth,Krishna Kumar,Syed Rizvi,Shivanand P. Lad,Liong Liem,Bengt Linderoth,Sean Mackey,Gladstone C. McDowell,Porter McRoberts,Lawrence Poree,Joshua P. Prager,Lou Raso,Richard Rauck,Marc Russo,Brian A. Simpson,Konstantin V. Slavin,Peter S. Staats,Michael Stanton-Hicks,Paul Verrills,Joshua Wellington,Kayode Williams,Richard B. North +44 more
TL;DR: The Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC) of the International Neurodulation Society evaluated evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of neurostimulation to treat chronic pain, chronic critical limb ischemia, and refractory angina and recommended appropriate clinical applications.
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Interventional management of neuropathic pain: NeuPSIG recommendations.
Robert H. Dworkin,Alec B. O'Connor,Joel L. Kent,Sean Mackey,Srinivasa N. Raja,Brett R. Stacey,Robert M. Levy,Miroslav Backonja,Ralf Baron,Henning Harke,John D. Loeser,Rolf-Detlef Treede,Dennis C. Turk,Christopher D. Wells +13 more
TL;DR: Based on the available data, it is recommended not to use sympathetic blocks for PHN nor radiofrequency lesions for radiculopathy, and four weak recommendations can be made due to the paucity of high‐quality clinical trials.
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Success Using Neuromodulation With BURST (SUNBURST) Study: Results From a Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial Using a Novel Burst Waveform.
Timothy R. Deer,Konstantin V. Slavin,Kasra Amirdelfan,Richard B. North,Allen W. Burton,Thomas L. Yearwood,Ed Tavel,Peter S. Staats,Steven M. Falowski,Jason E. Pope,Rafael Justiz,Alain Y. Fabi,Alexander Taghva,Richard Paicius,Timothy Houden,Derron Wilson +15 more
TL;DR: The purpose of the multicenter, randomized, unblinded, crossover Success Using Neuromodulation with BURST (SUNBURST) study was to determine the safety and efficacy of a device delivering both traditional tonic stimulation and burst stimulation to patients with chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs.
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Reversible nerve conduction block using kilohertz frequency alternating current.
Kevin L. Kilgore,Niloy Bhadra +1 more
TL;DR: The features and clinical applications of balanced‐charge kilohertz frequency alternating currents (KHFAC) are reviewed and there is a significant increase in interest in KHFAC block, both scientifically and clinically.
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EAN guidelines on central neurostimulation therapy in chronic pain conditions.
Giorgio Cruccu,Luis Garcia-Larrea,Per Hansson,Per Hansson,Magdalena Keindl,Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur,Walter Paulus,Rod S Taylor,Volker M. Tronnier,Andrea Truini,Nadine Attal +10 more
TL;DR: The aim was expanding the search to new techniques and to chronic pain conditions other than neuropathic pain, and assessing the evidence with the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system.
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Factors affecting spinal cord stimulation outcome in chronic benign pain with suggestions to improve success rate.
Krishna Kumar,J. R. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The electrode fracture rate can be reduced by using the paramedian approach, the use of three wing silicone anchor placed immediately at the point of exit of the lead from the deep fascia and avoiding a hard plastic twist lock anchor.
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Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain.
Richard B. North,Gary L. Roark +1 more
TL;DR: There have been marked improvements in patient selection criteria, hardware, technology, and methods for implantation, which have resulted in substantial improvement in the overall results achieved with spinal cord stimulation.
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Counting the costs: case management implications of spinal cord stimulation treatment for failed back surgery syndrome.
TL;DR: Clinical and health economic evidence supporting the use of spinal cord stimulation for failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is reviewed and implications for case managers' decision making are discussed.