ReviewThe Korean journal of pain2020
Spinal cord stimulation in chronic pain: technical advances.
Review in The Korean journal of pain, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Spinal Cord Stimulation Meets Them All: An Effective Treatment for Different Pain Conditions. Our Experience and Literature Review.Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement · 2023Pooled it
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- Beyond Analgesia: Preliminary Observations of Appetite and Weight Changes After Spinal Cord Stimulation.Cureus · 2026Article
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- Neurosurgical Interventions in Chronic Pain Management: A Review of Emerging Technologies and Accessibility.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Review
- The actual duration of spinal cord stimulator use in patients with complex regional pain syndrome: a Korean nationwide cohort study.The Korean journal of pain · 2025Article
- Real-World Outcomes of Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Consecutive Institutional Experience with 505 Trials, Trial-to-Implant Ratio, Long-Term Efficacy, and Explantation Risk Factors.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Clinical study of short-term spinal cord stimulation for herpes zoster-associated pain.European journal of medical research · 2024Article
- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Interventional pain medicine · 2024Review
- Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Spinal Cord Stimulation for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2024Review
- Current Neurostimulation Therapies for Chronic Pain Conditions.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
- Therapeutic Strategies for Postherpetic Neuralgia: Mechanisms, Treatments, and Perspectives.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
- Advances in Pain Medicine: a Review of New Technologies.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review.Pain and therapy · 2021Review
- Successful application of burst spinal cord stimulation for refractory upper limb pain: a case series.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- An Italian Expert Consensus on the Use of Opioids for the Management of Chronic Non-Oncological Pain in Clinical Practice: Focus on Buprenorphine.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- Deep Brain Stimulation for Chronic Pain: Time to Reconsider the Skeptical Attitude?Brain sciences · 2020Article
- From the torpedo fish to the spinal cord stimulator.The Korean journal of pain · 2020Article
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Chronic severe pain results in a detrimental effect on the patient's quality of life. Such patients have to take a large number of medications, including opioids, often without satisfactory effect, sometimes leading to medication abuse and the pain worsening. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is one of the most effective technologies that, unlike other interventional pain treatment methods, achieves long-term results in patients suffering from chronic neuropathic pain. The first described mode of SCS was a conventional tonic stimulation, but now the novel modalities (high-frequency and burst), techniques (dorsal root ganglia stimulations), and technical development (wireless and implantable pulse generator-free systems) of SCS are becoming more popular. The improvement of SCS systems, their miniaturization, and the appearance of new mechanisms for anchoring electrodes results in a significant reduction in the rate of complications and revision surgeries, and the appearance of new waves of stimulation allows not only to avoid the phenomenon of addiction, but also to improve the long-term results of chronic SCS. The purpose of this review is to describe the current condition of SCS and up-to-date technical advances.
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