Spinal Cord Stimulator

Indications

• “Failed back syndrome”, i.e., pain despite maximal medical and surgical therapies.

• Radiculopathy in the absence of compressive pathology.

• Neuropathic pain due to nerve root avulsion, postherpetic neuralgia, iatrogenic nerve injury, or complex regional pain syndrome.

• Phantom limb and stump pain, myelogenic pain.

• Painful peripheral neuropathy refractory to medical management.

• Ischemic pain from refractory angina or peripheral vascular disease.

• Successful completion of at least a several-day spinal cord stimulator (SCS) trial (> 50% reduction visual analog scale score).