• Jung H Kim, Anthony Apigo, and Camille Fontaine.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai West and Morningside Hospitals, New York, New York, USA.
• Pain Pract. 2021 Sep 1; 21 (7): 794-798.

AbstractPost-herpetic neuralgia is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder that is the sequela of the varicella zoster virus reactivation in the dorsal root ganglion. A variety of treatment modalities have been implemented, but pharmacologic treatments are often limited due to side effects and interventional procedures have yielded mixed results without promising long-term benefits being consistently seen. A dorsal root ganglion stimulator for treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia is a novel treatment option as it is able to specifically target the area affected. We present 3 patients who underwent implantation of permanent dorsal root ganglion stimulators and had a greater than 50% decrease in scoring on numerical rating scale (NRS) up to 18 months post-procedure and significantly reduced analgesic requirements.© 2021 World Institute of Pain.

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