Kaare Meier, Cecile C de Vos, Martine Bordeleau, Sharon van der Tuin, Bart Billet, Thomas Ruland, Morten Rune Blichfeldt-Eckhardt, Matthias Winkelmüller, Helga Angela Gulisano, Kliment Gatzinsky, Anne Lene Knudsen, Jens Christian Hedemann Sørensen, Ioanna Milidou, Sylvine Carrondo Cottin
OBJECTIVES: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a surgical treatment for severe, chronic, neuropathic pain. It is based on one to two lead(s) implanted in the epidural space, stimulating the dorsal column. It has long been assumed that when deactivating SCS, there is a variable interval before the patient perceives the return of the pain, a phenomenon often termed echo or carryover effect. Although the carryover effect has been problematized as a source of error in crossover studies, no experimental investigation of the effect has been published...
March 7, 2024: Neuromodulation: Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society