New Therapy for Refractory Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain—Restorative Neurostimulation to Activate the Lumbar Multifidus: One Year Results of a Prospective Multicenter Clinical Trial
Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface2017Vol. 21(1), pp. 48–55
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Kristiaan Deckers, Kris De Smedt, B. Mitchell, David Vivian, Marc Russo, Peter Georgius, Matthew Green, John Vieceli, Sam Eldabe, Ashish Gulve, Jean‐Pierre Van Buyten, Iris Smet, Vivek Mehta, Shankar Ramaswamy, Ganesan Baranidharan, Richard Sullivan, Robert Gassin, James P. Rathmell, Christopher Gilligan
Abstract
Electrical stimulation to elicit episodic lumbar multifidus contraction is a new treatment option for CMLBP. Results demonstrate clinically important, statistically significant, and lasting improvement in pain, disability, and QoL.
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