Tag Jianwen Wendy Gu

Neuroscience

Programming concerns with spinal cord stimulation

Scenario A 50-year-old woman with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) has been identified as a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) candidate by her pain management physician and is undergoing a one week trial. She is met shortly before the trial procedure…

Neuromodulation Casebook, The
March 4, 2024

Neurology

Programming—SCS

Introduction Spinal cord stimulation (SCS), a treatment for chronic intractable pain, was founded on the gate control theory of pain, which proposes that pain transmission is inhibited by activity in sensory afferent fibers, specifically Aβ fibers [ ]. SCS was…

Essential Neuromodulation
March 3, 2024