Spinal cord stimulation and its anaesthetic implications

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 ...

Lumbosacral spinal fibrosis (spinal arachnoiditis). Its diagnosis and treatment by spinal cord stimulation.

From 1973 to 1981, 94 patients suffering from low-back pain, with or without spread into the lower extremities, were candidates for therapeutic spinal cord stimulation. The etiology of pain in all cases was lumbosacral spinal fibrosis due to multiple myelographies and surgical interventions on the lumbar spine. The long-term results, based on a four-year follow-up, reveal a 60% subjective impro...