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Percutaneous Sacral Nerve Stimulation

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Pelvic pain is a poorly understood phenomenon that is notoriously difficult to treat. Conservative treatment modalities like medication and nerve blocks are largely ineffective in this particular patient population rendering most of these patients debilitated and suffering. Spinal cord stimulation would seem to be the logical treatment option for these recalcitrant cases, and given the predominance of sacral innervation in the pelvic viscera, targeting the sacral nerve themselves for direct stimulation is obvious choice. Percutaneous sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is a therapeutic option pelvic pain with demonstrated efficacy. In this chapter we present an overview of the implementation and the supporting evidence.

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  1. Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management, New York, NY, USA

    Corey W. Hunter

  2. Garden State Pain Control Center, Clifton, NJ, USA

    Dipan Patel

  3. Residents & Fellows Society, North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), Jersey City, NJ, USA

    Dipan Patel

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  1. The Spine and Nerve Center of the Virginias, Charleston, WV, USA

    Timothy R. Deer

  2. Evolve Restorative Center, Santa Rosa, CA, USA

    Jason E. Pope

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Tim J. Lamer

  4. Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, PA, USA

    David Provenzano

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Hunter, C.W., Patel, D. (2019). Percutaneous Sacral Nerve Stimulation. In: Deer, T., Pope, J., Lamer, T., Provenzano, D. (eds) Deer's Treatment of Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12281-2_72

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