The DOI matches its Crossref record; 155 of the 155 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Spinal Cord Stimulation: Clinical Efficacy and Potential Mechanisms
Open accessAbstract
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasive therapy used for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain. SCS is a safe and effective alternative to medications such as opioids, and multiple randomized controlled studies have demonstrated efficacy for difficult‐to‐treat neuropathic conditions such as failed back surgery syndrome. Conventional SCS is believed mediate pain relief via activation of dorsal column Aβ fibers, resulting in variable effects on sensory and pain thresholds, and measurable alterations in higher order cortical processing. Although potentiation of inhibition, as suggested by Wall and Melzack's gate control theory, continues to be the leading explanatory model, other segmental and supraspinal mechanisms have been described. Novel, non‐standard, stimulation waveforms such as high‐frequency and burst have been shown in some studies to be clinically superior to conventional SCS, however their mechanisms of action remain to be determined. Additional studies are needed, both mechanistic and clinical, to better understand optimal stimulation strategies for different neuropathic conditions, improve patient selection and optimize efficacy.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Melzack, R., & Wall, P. D. (1965) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.150.3699.971 · Cited by 11,090
Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Finnerup, N. B., Attal, N., Haroutounian, S., McNicol, E., Baron, R., Dworkin, R. H., Gilron, I., Haanpää, M., Hansson, P., Jensen, T. S., et al. (2015) · The Lancet Neurology · doi:10.1016/s1474-4422(14)70251-0 · Cited by 3,980
Self-citationNeuronal plasticity: Increasing the gain in pain
Woolf, C. J., & Salter, M. W. (2000) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.288.5472.1765 · Cited by 3,781
Melzack, R., & Wall, P. D. (1996) · Pain Forum · doi:10.1016/s1082-3174(96)80062-6 · Cited by 2,784
Rolke, R., Baron, R., Maier, C., Tölle, T. R., Treede, D. R., Beyer, A., Binder, A., Birbaumer, N., Birklein, F., Bötefür, I. C., et al. (2006) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.01.041 · Cited by 2,609
Neuropathic Pain: A Maladaptive Response of the Nervous System to Damage
Costigan, M., Scholz, J., & Woolf, C. J. (2009) · Annual Review of Neuroscience · doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.051508.135531 · Cited by 2,025
Prevalence of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in the general population
Bouhassira, D., Lantéri-Minet, M., Attal, N., Laurent, B., & Touboul, C. (2008) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.08.013 · Cited by 1,745
Neuropathic pain in the general population: A systematic review of epidemiological studies
van Hecke, O., Austin, S. K., Khan, R. A., Smith, B. H., & Torrance, N. (2014) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.11.013 · Cited by 1,602
Electrical inhibition of pain by stimulation of the dorsal columns: preliminary clinical report.
Shealy, C. N., Mortimer, J. T., & RESWICK, J. B. (1990) · PubMed · Cited by 1,237
Kumar, K., Taylor, R. S., Jacques, L., Eldabe, S., Meglio, M., Molet, J., Thomson, S., O’Callaghan, J., Eisenberg, E., Milbouw, G., et al. (2007) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.07.028 · Cited by 1,184
Cited by
Russo, M., Brooker, C., Cousins, M. J., Taylor, N., Boesel, T., Sullivan, R., Holford, L., Hanson, E., Gmel, G. E., Shariati, N. H., et al. (2020) · Neurosurgery · doi:10.1093/neuros/nyaa003 · Cited by 95
Electronics with shape actuation for minimally invasive spinal cord stimulation
Woodington, B. J., Curto, V. F., Yu, Y.-L., Martínez-Domínguez, H., Coles, L., Malliaras, G. G., Proctor, C. M., & Barone, D. G. (2021) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg7833 · Cited by 75
Active Neural Interface Circuits and Systems for Selective Control of Peripheral Nerves: A Review
Habibollahi, M., Jiang, D., Lancashire, H. T., & Demosthenous, A. (2024) · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems · doi:10.1109/tbcas.2024.3430038 · Cited by 11
Metadata
- Authors
- Sdrulla, A. D., Guan, Y., & Raja, S. N.
- Venue
- Pain Practice
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-04-23
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1048-1067
- ISSN
- 1530-7085 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-2500
- OpenAlex
- W2789281664
- Cited by
- 375
- References
- 155
- FWCI
- 31.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Spinal Cord Stimulation: Clinical Efficacy and Potential Mechanisms. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/papr.12692
- The paper
- Sdrulla, A. D., Guan, Y., & Raja, S. N. (2018). Spinal Cord Stimulation: Clinical Efficacy and Potential Mechanisms. Pain Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.12692
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
