Spinal cord stimulation and coronary ischaemia.

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Managing Angina from Coronary Artery Disease

The analgesic effect of SCS has been known since 1967 when Norman Shealy was able to show electrical stimulation of the dorsal column of spinal cord suppressed the response to noxious stimulation in animal study and abolished pain in a patient with terminal cancer (Shealy et.al. 1967). The rationale for this technique was based on the "gate theory" of pain proposed by Melzack and Wall (Melzack ...

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury

Since 1973, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been reported to modulate abnormal motor functions such as spasticity, weakness, ataxia, athetosis, neurogenic bladder, dysarthria, dystonia and torticollis. As reported in 39 papers, improved neurological functions did occur in 45 to 64% of 1,008 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury (SCI), cerebral palsy and other dystonic and ...