Long-term motor cortex stimulation for phantom limb pain

Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 272 - 274
Published: Oct 23, 2014
Abstract
We present the long-term course of motor cortex stimulation to relieve a case of severe burning phantom arm pain after brachial plexus injury and amputation. During 16-year follow-up the device continued to provide efficacious analgesia. However, several adjustments of stimulation parameters were required, as were multiple pulse generator changes, antibiotics for infection and one electrode revision due to lead migration. Steady increases in...
Paper Details
Title
Long-term motor cortex stimulation for phantom limb pain
Published Date
Oct 23, 2014
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
272 - 274
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