ID: 196541 Utilization of Combination Therapy-Based SCS Programming in Chronic Pain Patients: A Real-World, Observational European Study

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) programming customized to the individual needs of each patient is thought to be important for elucidation of the most effective clinical outcomes when using SCS for management of chronic pain. This is in part supported by the fact that the experience of chronic pain itself is inherently dynamic and highly subjective in nature. Our recently published work has also shown that, when given the available option, a substantial proportion of patients using SCS for chronic pain prefer programming that combines neurostimulative modalities such as (but not limited to) the utilization of supra- and sub-perception-based approaches.1 To further examine this, we embarked on a clinical evaluation of patients implanted with an SCS device who chose to use combination therapy-based programming to treat their chronic pain.