Evaluation of Sagittal Spinopelvic Balance in Spinal Cord Stimulator Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has become a popular nonopioid pain intervention. However, the treatment failure rate for SCS remains significantly high and many of these patients have poor sagittal spinopelvic balance, which has been found to correlate with increased pain and decreased quality of life. The purpose of this study was to determine if poor sagittal alignment is correlated with SCS treatment failure.

Materials and methods

Comparative retrospective analysis was performed between two cohorts of patients who had undergone SCS placement, those who had either subsequent removal of their SCS system (representing a treatment failure cohort) and those that underwent generator replacement (representing a successful treatment cohort). The electronic medical record

SUBMITTER: Woodroffe RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655314 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature