• Pain Med · Oct 2020

    The Long-term Effectiveness of the Automatic Position-Adaptive System in Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Retrospective Comparative Study with a Two-Year Follow-up.

    • Eun Kyoung Kim, Chang-Soon Lee, Yongjae Yoo, Jin-Woo Park, Jung Soo Kim, Youngwon Kim, Jee Youn Moon, and Yong-Chul Kim.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
    • Pain Med. 2020 Oct 1; 21 (10): 2288-2297.

    ObjectiveTo compare the nonadaptive manual system with the position-adaptive system in subjects with permanent spinal cord stimulator (SCS) implantation over a two-year follow-up period.DesignRetrospective study.SettingTertiary university-based national hospital.SubjectsPatients who underwent permanent SCS implantation procedures.MethodsPatients were divided into an adaptive group and a nonadaptive group according to the type of implanted SCS device. The primary outcome was the change (%) in pain intensity from baseline between the adaptive and nonadaptive groups at 24 months after SCS implantation. The secondary outcomes were comparisons of detailed clinical variables such as the scores of patient pain and satisfaction during the two-year follow-up after SCS therapy. Further, the number of subjects with SCS removal or revision within two years after SCS implantation was investigated.ResultsOf 187 patients with permanent SCS implantation, 85 in the nonadaptive group and 64 in the position-adaptive group were finally analyzed. The reduction in pain intensity at 24 months was higher in the adaptive group (-38.6%) than in the nonadaptive group (-30.8%, P = 0.05). Similarly, patient satisfaction with the SCS treatment at 24 months was superior in the adaptive group than in the nonadaptive group (85.7% vs 67.5% were satisfied in each group, respectively, P = 0.024). During the two years, 5.3% of patients (N = 10) underwent SCS removal and 7.0% (N = 13) underwent revision procedures.ConclusionsThere was a trend of a sustained reduction in pain intensity as well as improvement in patient satisfaction at two-year follow-up in the position-adaptive system, suggesting long-term benefit over the nonadaptive manual system during SCS treatment.© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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