SP 10. Innsbruck experience in neuropathic pain syndromes: Re-think and re-construct old methods for better results

In the last 25 years neuromodulation by deep brain stimulation gained widely acceptance starting in the field of movement disorders and getting further indications in pain syndroms and mood disorders. Surgical interventions should only be considered being a treatment option after proving ineffectiveness of conservative therapy forms. The highly acclaimed success of deep brain stimulation in Parkinsons disease, essential tremor, dystonia, chorea huntington, tourette syndrome, cannot be translated 1:1 to neuropathic pain syndromes.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Source Type: research