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Advanced care: Neuromodulation
If
you suffer with severe chronic illness, persistent pain, spasticity,
movement disorders, epilepsy, ischemia, cardiac, bowel or bladder
dysfunction, spinal injury or visual or auditory disorders, neuromodulation
offers new hope as a treatment to enhance your quality of life.
Neuromodulation is one of the most exciting developments in modern
healthcare. It is a medical procedure used to alter nervous system function
in order to relieve pain. It consists mainly of electrical stimulation,
lesioning of specific areas of the nervous system or infusion of medicine
into the spinal fluid. There are a number of neuromodulation procedures that
may have more familiar names, including:
• Peripheral nerve stimulation • Percutaneous nerve
stimulation
• Occipital nerve stimulation • Sacral nerve stimulation
• Spinal cord stimulation • Deep brain stimulation
• Cranial nerve stimulation • Vagal nerve stimulation
• Trigeminal nerve stimulation • Cerebral cortex stimulation
• Motor cortex stimulation • Occipital cortex implantation
• Intrathecal drug delivery • Intraspinal drug delivery
• Functional electrical stimulation
At
Pain Partners, MD, we are using neuromodulation stimulator trials to
address certain conditions that cause persistent pain. Ask about it today.
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