Invasive neuromodulation reduces diabetic neuropathy pain: study
But medical approaches to pain relief should be tried first, expert says
Tonic spinal cord stimulation (t-SCS) can help relieve pain from diabetic neuropathy, and some newer neuromodulation therapies also have potential, a systematic review and meta-analysis suggest.
UK researchers examined data from 15 previously published studies that looked at pain outcomes for people with diabetic neuropathy who received different types of invasive neuromodulation.
For the meta-analysis, the Oxford University researchers converted pain scores in the smaller studies to a standard 100-point scale to