Abstract
Approximately one in five adults in the United States experiences chronic pain. Over the last 50 years, spinal cord stimulation has become increasingly recognized as a minimally invasive, efficacious treatment modality for the management of chronic pain. The authors report a case study of a 46-year-old female in the first documented spinal cord stimulation simultaneously targeting intractable neuropathic and visceral pain caused by post-laminectomy syndrome and chronic pancreatitis, respectively. This case study demonstrates near-total relief of the patient's neuropathic low back/leg pain and visceral epigastric pain, showing evidence of potential clinical usefulness for spinal cord stimulation as a treatment option in patients who present with a combination of visceral and somatic pain symptoms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 123-129 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Pain management |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2022 |
Keywords
- Chronic pain
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Neuromodulation
- Neuropathic pain
- Post-laminectomy syndrome
- Somatic pain
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Visceral pain
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine