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Am I a good candidate?
Spinal cord stimulation can help reduce chronic back pain. Good candidates include people with failed back surgeries, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), phantom limb, sciatic nerve and other types of neuropathic or nerve-related pain have had great success with spinal cord stimulation.
The cause of your pain may be due to injury or disease, however, the cause of pain is not what will determine if spinal cord stimulation is right for you.
As part of determining whether you area good candidate for spinal cord stimulation, your Southwest pain specialist will assess:
- the type of pain you experience
- how severe your pain is
- where your pain is located
Based on the evaluation, the pain specialist can help you decide if spinal cord stimulation may be able to relieve address your pain symptoms.
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