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Spinal Cord Stimulation Group for Leg Pain
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Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) uses electrical signals to disrupt noxious signals arising from painful areas, thereby reducing pain perception. Successful SCS implants lead to a broad range of positive outcomes: 1) long-term pain can be expected to be reduced by at least by 50%; 2) quality of life as assessed by subjective measurements improves substantially; 3) patients can significantly reduce opioid medication intake.1 However, the impacts of SCS intervention on neuromuscular and biomechanical outcomes including gait and balance have not been fully explored. Fifty subjects with symptomatic leg pain and/or low back pain (LBP) who are deemed appropriate SCS candidates and are scheduled for surgery will undergo gait and balance analyses preoperatively as well as 6 weeks and 3 months post operatively. In addition, 50 control subjects having no pain will undergo 1 session of gait and balance assessment. Objective spine and lower extremity motion and neuromuscular control will be evaluated using dynamic surface EMG and a video motion capture system during functional evaluation. Also, explored will be the relationship of changes in gait and balance to psychosocial factors that have previously been shown to be correlated with SCS outcomes.
- Chronic Lower Back Pain
- Leg Pain
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From 2019 Phase 4 trial • 30 Patients • NCT03284411Trial Design
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