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Time-dynamic pulse modulation of spinal cord stimulation reduces mechanical hypersensitivity and spontaneous pain in rats.
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- Dual-frequency spinal cord stimulation increases responder rates for treatment of neuropathic pain.Pain · 2026Article
- Adaptive neuromodulation dialogues: navigating current challenges and emerging innovations in neuromodulation system development.Journal of neural engineering · 2025Review
- Neuroprosthetic closed-loop strategy for sustained blood pressure reduction via simultaneous stimulation and recording from the spinal cord.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Chronic, Battery-Free, Fully Implantable Multimodal Spinal Cord Stimulator for Pain Modulation in Small Animal Models.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Characterization of preclinical models to investigate spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pain reports · 2025Review
- Spinal cord stimulation using time-dynamic pulses achieves longer reversal of allodynia compared to tonic pulses in a rat model of neuropathic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Exploratory evaluation of spinal cord stimulation with dynamic pulse patterns: a promising approach to improve stimulation sensation, coverage of pain areas, and expected pain relief.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Enhancing the efficacy of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is needed to alleviate the burden of chronic pain and dependence on opioids. Present SCS therapies are characterized by the delivery of constant stimulation in the form of trains of tonic pulses (TPs). We tested the hypothesis that modulated SCS using novel time-dynamic pulses (TDPs) leads to improved analgesia and compared the effects of SCS using conventional TPs and a collection of TDPs in a rat model of neuropathic pain according to a longitudinal, double-blind, and crossover design. We tested the effects of the following SCS patterns on paw withdrawal threshold and resting state EEG theta power as a biomarker of spontaneous pain: Tonic (conventional), amplitude modulation, pulse width modulation, sinusoidal rate modulation, and stochastic rate modulation. Results demonstrated that under the parameter settings tested in this study, all tested patterns except pulse width modulation, significantly reversed mechanical hypersensitivity, with stochastic rate modulation achieving the highest efficacy, followed by the sinusoidal rate modulation. The anti-nociceptive effects of sinusoidal rate modulation on EEG outlasted SCS duration on the behavioral and EEG levels. These results suggest that TDP modulation may improve clinical outcomes by reducing pain intensity and possibly improving the sensory experience.
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