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Treating Low Back Pain in Failed Back Surgery Patients with Multicolumn-lead Spinal Cord Stimulation
Published on: June 26, 2018
[Spinal cord stimulation in 62 patients: Retrospective evaluation]
İrem Özdemir, Mert Akbaş1, Arif Yeğin
1Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Division of Algology, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey. akbasmert@hotmail.com.
Objectives:
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is used for various indications such as Failed Back Surgey Syndrome, peripheral causalgia, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, peripheral vascular disease, ischemic heart disease and cancer pain.
Methods:
This is a retrospective study. 62 patients applied SCS were included in retrospective study from february 2011-january 2015 in Akdeniz University medicine faculty algology department. We asked about patients' VAS values before and after procedure, analgesic medicine usings, sleep disorders, pleasure after procedure, daily activity improvement and time of going back to work.
Results:
We found that decrease on the patients' pain severity and improvement on quality of sleep and daily activities.
Conclusion:
As a result; our study and the other studies show that SCS is reliable and effective procedure on chronic pain management.
