Successful spinal cord stimulation for chronic pancreatitis and post-laminectomy pain.
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.
['Cox|Cody J|CJ|https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2994-2379', 'Wilkinson|Michael M|MM|', 'Erdek|Michael A|MA|https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5326-3873']
spinal cord stimulation chronic pancreatitis chronic pain visceral pain post-laminectomy syndrome somatic pain neuromodulation neuropathic pain