Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

What is it?
Peripheral nerve stimulation involves placing a lead adjacent to a nerve that is causing pain. The lead stimulates the nerve at a level that is not felt by the patient but is strong enough to turn off pain signals the nerve is sending back to the spinal cord and brain. The patient usually has a battery that they wear on the outside of their skin in close proximity to where the lead is placed under the skin.
What conditions does it treat?
Peripheral nerve stimulation can be used to treat polyneuropathy, radiculopathy, post-surgical pain, and other neuropathic pain states.
How long does the effect last?
This mode of therapy usually has long duration of pain relief. The pain relief from these devices can last many years in most cases.
Conditions
- Arthritis
- Cancer Pain
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Compression Fractures of the Spine
- Herniated Discs
- Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica)
- Post Laminectomy Syndrome
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Whiplash CAD
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Neck Pain
- Chronic Abdominal Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Neuropathy
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Migraine Headaches
Treatments
- Kyphoplasty
- Lidocaine Infusion
- Lumbar Epidural Spinal Injection (LESI)
- Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy
- Medial Branch Block (MBB)
- Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD)
- Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Regenerative Medicine
- SI Joint Injections
- Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)
- Stellate Ganglion Block
- Sympathetic Nerve Block
- Transforaminal Epidural Spinal Injection (TFESI)
- Trigger Point Injections
- Vertebroplasty
- Capsaicin (8%) Patch
- Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
- Disc Nucleoplasty
- Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator (DRG)
- Endoscopic Discectomy
- Facet Joint Syndrome
- Intrathecal Pain Pumps
- Ketamine Infusion
- Hip Joint Injections
- Platelet Rich Plasma
- Knee Joint Injections
- Botox Injections
- Lumbar Sympathetic Ganglion Block
- Intercostal Nerve Block
- Minuteman Procedure
- Vertiflex Procedure