Spinal Cord Burst Stimulation vs Placebo Stimulation for Patients With Chronic Radicular Pain After Lumbar Spine Surgery.

We believe that these methodological flaws invalidate the broad conclusions made about the effectiveness of spinal cord stimulation therapy, which has numerous high-quality studies with level 1 data, thus demonstrating efficacy across multiple stimulation waveforms or parameters. As a result, this trial did not compare sham spinal cord stimulation vs validated spinal cord stimulation, but rather, demonstrated that a previously unpublished set amplitude of stimulation therapy did not provide relief. [Extracted from the article]