For patients with chroinc pain, finding a treatment with lasting results and few side effects can be difficult. Medications such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants, tricyclic antidepressants, anti-epileptic drugs and/or opioids are often unable to manage a patient’s pain long term without significant side effects. Physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture may provide some additional benefit to patients but rarely provide long-term relief. Interventional procedures such as injections often work short term but typically fail to provide adequate relief at some point. 

About stimulation therapies

Once these conservative measurements have been exhausted, stimulation therapies may provide benefit to many of these patients.