Pain stimulators/pain pumps

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I used to work in pain management, and I never saw a pain pump used for RSD. We

did use a lot of implantable spinal stimulators. There is no medication in a

stimulator, but when it is placed in the correct spot, it offers a massaging

stim to the extremity affected by RSD. Many of our patients received relief from

this.

Best wishes

>Carol wrote:

I'm very interested in learning more about the pain pump implant to help with

the chronic pain associated with RSD. Could you please tell me more about how

this works.

I had a pain pump after my last foot surgery that was awesome in

helping to control the post-surgery pain along with my usual RSD medications

(Percocet and Gabapentin). Is this pain pump you're talking about basically the

same thing? The pain pump only lasted 4 days to get me through the worst of the

post-surgical pain.