Spinal Cord Pain Battery
After lumbar and cervical disc herniation surgeries, some patients experience severe leg and waist pain due to some adhesions in the spinal canal. These patients have to undergo repeated back surgery as their pain does not go away after the herniated disc surgery. Each herniated disc surgery creates a new adhesion and subsequently causes further increase in pain. Algological treatments, physical therapy, medication, etc. are used in these patients. If some treatment methods do not help, a battery is placed in the patient's spinal canal and "spinal cord stimulation" is performed. Another group of patients are those with wounds and pain in their feet and hands due to vascular occlusion, especially Buerger's disease. Electrical current provided by a battery placed in the spinal cord, that is, spinal cord stimulation, contributes to the healing of wounds as it allows the vessels to expand and also reduces the pain caused by very severe vascular occlusion.
- Who can use spinal cord? Can stimulation be performed?
Patient selection is very important for the success of the method. Pain complaints must be very frequent and severe, and there must be no adequate response from other treatment methods.
* Migraine Pain Battery *
;Local anesthesia Under it, a system that will relieve migraine pain is placed through a small incision made in the skin behind the patient's head. The patient must be awake when inserting the battery to find the area causing the pain. The matchbox-sized battery is placed under the skin in the waist or back area. The system under the skin is not visible from the outside.
For the system, electrodes are placed just under the scalp, stimulating the two branches of the nerve that causes occipital migraine. When the patient activates the battery remotely, it stimulates the occipital nerve by giving current to the electrode. Thus, the transmission of pain to the brain is prevented. The brain begins to forget the pain signals coming from there and ignores the incoming warnings.
Migraine is a disease that seriously impairs the quality of life and is common in society. Headache attacks are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light and sound sensitivity. truck. The goal of migraine treatment is to both reduce pain during acute attacks and reduce the number of attacks that may occur. In addition to many people who are undiagnosed or untreated, the majority are migraine patients whose pain does not go away despite being diagnosed and taking a wide variety of medications for both attack prevention and pain control during attacks. For this reason, the medical world, especially Western Medicine, has accelerated its work in recent years to find a cure for migraine. As a result of these studies, the application of pain battery (occipital nerve stimulation) in migraine treatment received FDA approval and was included in the HEADACHE TREATMENT GUIDE. Pain pacing is applied in migraine treatment as follows: An electrode is placed on a nerve at the back of the head responsible for migraine, on the nape of the neck, and the tip of this electrode is combined with a generator, that is, a battery, that produces the current that will relieve the pain. The system is placed under the skin so that it cannot be seen from the outside. When the patient starts migraine pain, he can reduce his pain by activating the battery with an external remote control. As a result of the pain battery application, a 50% reduction in pain attacks is expected in the first month and an 80% reduction in the second month.
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