Clinical evidence
There is strong evidence that neurostimulation provides good to excellent long-term pain relief for the majority of carefully selected chronic pain sufferers. This has been recently backed up by the publication of Guidance on the use of Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) in England and Wales by the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). It also improves quality of life, increases the likelihood of being able to return to work and reduces the need for pain relieving medicines.
Neurostimulation has few side effects; significantly fewer than with long-term use of high strength pain killers. Medical research has also shown that the tiny electrical pulses used in neurostimulation do not damage the nervous system and that the components are safe. Most problems with the equipment are technical, are easily corrected and rarely serious.
There is good evidence, accepted by doctors, that neurostimulation provides good to excellent long-term pain relief
Patient testimonials
Don's story
For the past thirteen years Don has suffered severe shoulder, back and leg pain preventing him from leading the full and active life he had always been used to. Don then took an important descision to implant a neurostimulation system and all this changed : "I couldn't do without the neurostimulator, it really does help me an enormous amount. My wife keeps telling me to slow down and I have to remind her that for the past ten years she had been saying come on speed up!"
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