What is spinal cord electrical stimulation (SCS) therapy, the nemesis of herpes zoster neuralgia?

  When you have shingles, many people simply treat shingles as a skin disease, focusing only on the surface of the skin and ignoring the pain. As a result, the skin often heals, but leaves serious pain problems, mainly manifested as local paroxysmal or persistent burning, stabbing, throbbing, cutting pain, which can be accompanied by numbness, sensory allergy, abnormal sensations such as ants walking, and some patients are afraid to even touch their clothes due to severe pain, which seriously affects rest, sleep, mental state, etc. Therefore, the presence of pain indicates that the herpes zoster virus has caused damage to the corresponding nerves under the skin, and at this time, effective treatment of neuralgia should be carried out in a timely manner.  Spinal cord electrical stimulation (SCS) is currently an internationally advanced and effective means of treating neuropathic pain. A slim electrode is placed in the epidural cavity of the spinal canal, and the electrode releases a weak electric current to stimulate the conduction bundles and posterior horn sensory neurons in the posterior column of the spinal cord, thus prompting the release of the body’s own endogenous analgesic substances, such as enkephalins and endorphins, which in turn exerts an endogenous analgesic effect and shuts down the pain information The purpose of pain relief and blockage is achieved by shutting down the transmission of pain information. At the same time, the stimulation by electric current can also promote the repair of the nerve itself.  The spinal cord electrical stimulation treatment is called “green therapy” because it does not use any drugs and does not destroy the nerves. The majority of patients can be relieved of their pain. Since 2003, our center has been the first center in China to carry out this technology and has the largest number of surgical cases, so we have rich experience in treatment.