TY - JOUR
T1 - Occipital nerve stimulation for medically intractable headache
AU - Schwedt, Todd J.
N1 - Funding Information:
In the past 12 months, Dr. Schwedt has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, has been an investigator in clinical trials sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, Allergan Inc., and AGA Medical Corp., and has been compensated for consulting work with VerusMed.
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - There is an unmet need, and thus: a continued search, for effective treatments for patients with chronic daily headache who do not respond to or tolerate conventional therapies. Recent interest has focused on the use of occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) to treat patients with chronic, disabling headaches who are not adequately controlled by usual therapies, A small but growing body of evidence supports the use of ONS for the treatment of intractable headache. Electrical stimulation of the occipital nerve has both peripheral and central nervous system effects that modulate nociception. The exact role for ONS will evolve as our understandings of its physiologic effects, efficacy, and safety grow.
AB - There is an unmet need, and thus: a continued search, for effective treatments for patients with chronic daily headache who do not respond to or tolerate conventional therapies. Recent interest has focused on the use of occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) to treat patients with chronic, disabling headaches who are not adequately controlled by usual therapies, A small but growing body of evidence supports the use of ONS for the treatment of intractable headache. Electrical stimulation of the occipital nerve has both peripheral and central nervous system effects that modulate nociception. The exact role for ONS will evolve as our understandings of its physiologic effects, efficacy, and safety grow.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11916-008-0012-7
DO - 10.1007/s11916-008-0012-7
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18417026
AN - SCOPUS:39049172244
SN - 1531-3433
VL - 12
SP - 62
EP - 66
JO - Current pain and headache reports
JF - Current pain and headache reports
IS - 1
ER -