Am I a Candidate for Spinal Cord Stimulation or Drug Delivery Therapy?

Medtronic Pain Therapies may be an option for you if you have been in pain for 6 months or longer and your current treatment has not provided adequate relief.

A benefit of Medtronic Pain Therapies is that you can test a pain therapy to see if it will help manage your chronic pain before making a long-term commitment.

Learn more about the screening test for spinal cord stimulation
Learn more about the screening test for drug delivery therapy

An Alternative to Corrective Surgery

While many patients try Medtronic Pain Therapies after corrective surgery has failed, you and your doctor may want to consider them sooner. Medtronic Pain Therapies are reversible, and you can experience the therapy for yourself before making a final decision. This flexibility may make them a good alternative to more permanent surgical options such as lumbar spinal fusion surgery, laminectomy, and neuroblation.

Treatable Pain Conditions

Talk with your doctor about the right treatment for your chronic pain. Medtronic Pain Therapies may be an option if you experience chronic back and leg pain or chronic pain associated with the following conditions:

• Failed Back Syndrome (FBS) or low back syndrome or failed back
• Radicular pain syndrome or radiculopathies resulting in pain secondary to FBS or herniated disk
• Postlaminectomy pain
• Multiple back operations
• Unsuccessful disk surgery
• Degenerative Disk Disease (DDD)/herniated disk pain refractory to conservative and surgical interventions
• Peripheral causalgia
• Epidural fibrosis
• Arachnoiditis or lumbar adhesive arachnoiditis
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), or causalgia

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