Successful treatment of whiplash-type injury induced severe pain syndrome with epidural stimulation: a case report

• Published in: Pain (Amsterdam) Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 441 - 443
• Main Authors: Kirvelä, Olli A., Kotilainen, Esa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.1999; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cervico-facial pain; Chronic Disease; Diseases of the nervous system; Electric Stimulation Therapy; Epidural Space; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Pain - etiology; Pain Management; Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects); Spinal cord stimulation; Syndrome; Whiplash Injuries - complications; Whiplash-type injury; Cervico-facial pain; Whiplash-type injury; Spinal cord stimulation; Human; Nervous system diseases; Spinal cord; Electrical stimulus; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Instrumentation therapy; Traffic accident; Trauma; Cerebral disorder; Extradural; Pain; Central nervous system disease; Cervicofacial; Cervical spine
• ISSN: 0304-3959; 1872-6623
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00218-8

Chronic severe cervico-facial pain syndrome associated with a whiplash-type injury was successfully treated with epidural spinal cord stimulation. The patient had been in pain for 9 years, responding temporarily only to stellate ganglion blocks. The patient has now been painless for 18 months. We have been unable to find a similar case reported in the literature to date.