If pains in some parts of the body caused by blows, cuts or injuries, pain resulting from multiple surgeries, tumor-cancer pains have become permanent and cannot be treated with other interventions, it may be necessary to resort to pain surgery.
What are the treatments used?
Although there are many methods used in pain surgery, the most effective methods are:
Spinal Cord Stimulation
Cordotomy
Pain Pump
To summarize these methods briefly;
Spinal Cord Stimulation: Electrodes (lead) are placed on the spinal cord along the pain pathways in the spinal cord and connected to a power source (battery). When pain pathways are stimulated by means of a battery, undesired pain cannot pass through these pathways and cannot reach the brain. Thus, the patient does not feel pain.
Cordotomy: Surgical cutting of pain pathways in the spinal cord. It is mostly used in the treatment of cancer-related pain. It can be applied in phantom pains.
Pain Pump: The pain pump is placed in the body and anesthetic substance is given to the water in the spinal cord from there in a controlled manner. It is most commonly used in tumor and cancer pain.
Pain surgery should be the last option in treatment. As a result, this surgery does not cure the disease. It is done so that the patient does not feel pain. In addition, the patient should be followed up regularly after these surgeries. Although pain surgery provides great convenience in the solution of unresolved pain, applying it to almost any pain or applying the wrong treatment to the wrong area can have very serious consequences. Of course, it is useful to consult a specialist to find out whether pain surgery can cure your problem.
