Operative Neuromodulation

An introduction.- An introduction to operative neuromodulation and functional neuroprosthetics, the new frontiers of clinical neuroscience and biotechnology.- Electricity in the treatment of nervous system disease.- The current range of neuromodulatory devices and related technologies.- Spain.- Management of chronic severe pain: spinal neuromodulatory and neuroablative approaches.- Intrathecal opioids for intractable pain syndromes.- Management of chronic back and leg pain by intrathecal drug delivery.- Drug-enhanced spinal stimulation for pain: a new strategy.- Neurosurgical pain therapy with epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS).- Spinal cord stimulation for failed back surgery syndrome and other disorders.- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of chronic non-malignant pain.- Dual electrode spinal cord stimulation in chronic leg and back pain.- Factors affecting spinal cord stimulation outcome in chronic benign pain with suggestions to improve success rate.- Hardware failures in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic benign pain of spinal origin.- Minimally invasive placement of epidural plate electrodes under local anaesthesia in spinal cord stimulation.- Implantation of surgical electrodes for spinal cord stimulation: classical midline laminotomy technique versus minimal invasive unilateral technique combined with spinal anaesthesia.- Peripheral nerve stimulation for the treatment of neuropathic craniofacial pain.- Stimulation of the occipital nerve for the treatment of migraine: current state and future prospects.- Occipital neurostimulation for treatment of intractable headache syndromes.- Spasticity and related disorders.- The phenomenon of spasticity: a pathophysiological and clinical introduction to neuromodulation therapies.- Intrathecal baclofen in current neuromodulatory practice: established indications and emerging applications.- Intrathecal baclofen therapy: indications, pharmacology, surgical implant, and efficacy.- Intrathecal baclofen in the treatment of spasticity.- Intrathecal baclofen therapy in patients with severe spasticity.- Intrathecal antispastic drug application with implantable pumps: results of a 10 year follow-up study.- Intrathecal baclofen for the treatment of spasticity.- Management of spasticity in multiple sclerosis by intrathecal baclofen.- Surgical management of spasticity of cerebral origin in children.- Efficacy of intrathecal baclofen delivery in the management of severe spasticity in upper motor neuron syndrome.- Intrathecal baclofen in the treatment of spasticity, dystonia and vegetative disorders.- Intrathecal baclofen in the management of post-stroke hypertonia: current applications and future directions.- Intrathecal baclofen in the treatment of post-stroke central pain, dystonia, and persistent vegetative state.- Neurophysiological basis and clinical applications of the H-reflex as an adjunct for evaluating response to intrathecal baclofen for spasticity.- The importance of neurorehabilitation to the outcome of neuromodulation in spasticity.- Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and respiratory disorders.- Epidural spinal cord stimulation in lower limb ischemia.- Spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of chronic critical limb ischemia.- Cervical spinal cord stimulation in cerebral ischemia.- Spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of post-stroke patients: current state and future directions.- Neurostimulation for refractory angina pectoris.- Diaphragm pacing with a spinal cord stimulator: current state and future directions.- Neuroprostheses for management of dysphagia resulting from cerebrovascular disorders.- Bladder, bowel, and sexual disorders.- Management and rehabilitation of neuropathic bladder in patients with spinal cord lesion.- Sacral neuromodulation as a functional treatment of bladder overactivity.- Dorsal rhizotomy combined with anterior sacral root stimulation for neurogenic bladder.- Surgical therapy of neurogenic detrusor overactivity (hyperreflexia) in paraplegic patients by sacral deafferentation and implant driven micturition by sacral anterior root stimulation: methods, indications, results, complications, and future prospects.- Sacral neuromodulation in the treatment of defecation disorders.- Sacral nerve stimulation for fecal disorders: evolution, current status, and future directions.- Neurally augmented sexual function.- Neuromodulatory approaches to chronic pelvic pain and coccygodynia.- Functional electrical stimulation.- Neuromodulation by functional electrical stimulation (FES) of limb paralysis after stroke.- Neuromodulation of effects of upper limb motor function and shoulder range of motion by functional electric stimulation (FES).- Neuromodulation of lower limb monoparesis: functional electrical therapy of walking.- FES cycling.- Reconstruction of upper limb motor function using functional electrical stimulation (FES).- Neuroprostheses.- Neural prostheses in clinical practice: biomedical microsystems in neurological rehabilitation.- Neuroprosthetics of the upper extremity — clinical application in spinal cord injury and challenges for the future.- Neural prostheses and biomedical microsystems in neurological rehabilitation.- Restoration of neurological functions by neuroprosthetic technologies: future prospects and trends towards micro-, nano-, and biohybrid systems.- Emerging applications.- The role of spinal cord stimulation in the management of patients with brain tumors.- Dorsal column stimulation for persistent vegetative state.- Relationship between intrathecal baclofen and the central nervous system.- Robot-aided rehabilitation of neural function in the upper extremities.- Experimental therapies for chronic pain.