The Outcome of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in CRPS



Title: The Outcome of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in CRPS

Authors: Mark F Hendrickson, MD, Nishant M De Quadros, BS, and Michael Stanton-Hicks, MB, BS.

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of peripheral nerve stimulators on reducing pain levels of patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).

Method: The 91 patients that we reviewed had been implanted with peripheral nerve stimulators between 1991 and 2003.  Patients were identified as either type II or type I CPRS. Pain level on a VAS of 0 to 10 was documented for each patient pre-operatively, at their 4-6 week follow-up visits and at the time of their last documented visits.  Finally we documented the number of successive surgeries for revision or removal.  For the analysis of all our data we used two-sided t-tests with a 99% confidence interval (Wilcox on signed rank test).  We considered differences p ................
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