Hybrid procedure the answer to chronic back pain?

People who experience chronic pain most often want to avoid using any type of medication to manage it or eliminate it completely. Also, for some injuries, medication isn’t effective.

For some back injuries, the chronic pain may be lasting for a while before surgery is proposed, because surgery is a last-ditch effort to control the pain. This means, by the time your doctor has suggested and arranged the surgery, you may have undergone months (or years) of different “conventional” treatments before the surgery actually happens.

Unfortunately, although spinal surgery does have a good success rate, it doesn’t work for everyone. Or it does but the pain comes back later.

In June this year, findings of a new procedure, a hybrid procedure, will be presented as an option to relieve back pain in patients who have had back surgery, but continue to have pain in their backs and legs.

The hybrid procedure, combines an implanted electronic device called a dorsal column (spinal cord) stimulator with peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS). This gives patients drug-free relief from the severe, chronic back and leg pain of failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), a condition suffered by nearly half of all spine surgery patients, according to the press release.

You can read more about the procedure it the press release: Mix of 2 pain-relief procedures can end chronic back and leg pain without drugs.

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