Purpose. Failed back surgery syndrome is a chronic pain condition requiring rapid, effective, and efficient management. This study evaluates the effect of adding dexmedetomidine to lumbar epidural steroids in patients with failed back surgery syndrome. Methods. Fifty patients suffering from failed back surgery syndrome were randomly assigned to one of two groups, receiving an epidural injection...

Failed back surgery syndrome has become unfortunately a common clinical entity. FBSS does not have one specific treatment because it does not have one specific cause. Some features are shared with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and some pathological processes are specific. Both pathologies are leading causes of disability in the industrialized world and costly medical and surgical treatments are ...

BACKGROUND Failed back surgery syndrome is a common clinical entity for which spinal cord stimulation has been found to be an effective mode of analgesia, but with variable success rates. OBJECTIVE To determine if focal stimulation of the dorsal columns with a transverse tripolar lead might achieve deeper penetration of the electrical stimulus into the spinal cord and therefore provide greate...