Is spinal cord stimulation a treatment option for my chronic pain?
SCS is not effective for all types of pain. Ask your doctor if the cause, type, and location of your pain make you a candidate for spinal cord stimulation. Remember that in the chronic pain treatment steps, spinal cord stimulation is an advanced pain treatment. This means that spinal cord stimulation is generally not considered a treatment option until other pain therapies—including medications, physical therapy, nerve blocks, and perhaps even surgery—have been tried and have failed to control your pain.
