RT Book, Section
A1 Veizi, Elias
A1 Hayek, Salim M.
A2 Diwan, Sudhir
A2 Staats, Peter S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1107200344
T1 Spinal Cord Stimulation: Implantation Techniques
T2 Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071738767
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1107200344
RD 2021/03/06
AB Electrical  stimulation  of  neural  structures  is  a  widely  used,  nondestructive,  reversible  therapy,  for  chronic  noncancer  related  pain.  It  has  been  evolving  rapidly  since  the  “gate  theory,”  developed  by  Melzack  and  Wall  in  1965,  which  opened  the  door  for  this  application.  Neurostimulation  may  modulate  pain  pathways  at  the  central  nervous  system  and  peripheral  nervous  system  levels.  Various  techniques  and  technologies  have  been  developed  according  to  the  site  of  stimulation:  spinal  cord  stimulation  (SCS),  deep  brain  stimulation  (DBS),  motor  cortex  stimulation  (MCS),  large  peripheral  nerve  stimulation  (PNS),  peripheral  nerve  field  stimulation  (PNFS),  and  more  recently  dorsal  root  ganglia  stimulation  (DRG-S).  This  chapter  looks  at  percutaneous  surgical  techniques  of  electrical  stimulation  of  the  spinal  cord.