Journal of Pain & Relief
Open Access

Review Article

Postincisional Pain in Spinal Cord Stimulation: Incidence and Treatment

Alessandro Dario^*, Gianluca Agresta, Desiree Lattanzi, Lidia Bifone, Stefania Padovan and Davide Locatelli

Neurosurgical Clinic, Insubria University, ASST Settelaghi, Varese, Italy

Corresponding Author:

Alessandro Dario
Department of Neurosurgical
Insubria University, U.O. Neurochirurgia
ASSTs Settelaghi, Varese, Viale Borri-57 21100, Italy
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E-mail: dario.alessandro@virgilio.it

Received date: July 29, 2016; Accepted date: August 10, 2016; Published date: August 15, 2016

Citation: Dario A, Agresta G, Lattanzi D, Bifone L, Padovan S, et al. (2016) Postincisional Pain in Spinal Cord Stimulation: Incidence and Treatment. J Pain Relief S4:005. doi:10.4172/2167-0846.S4-005

Copyright: © 2016 Dario A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The post incisional pain is a biological complication of the spinal cord stimulation implantation. The frequency of this condition in literature reported studies ranges from 0.9% to 12%. The causes of this pain are unclear and there is no homogeneity in the reported data. The treatment of this surgical complication is not well established with several therapy proposed. Starting from our experience we stress the need for more consistent data on the frequency and on the therapies to be used.