ID: 206983 Retrospective Review of Real-World Outcomes Following 60-Day PNS of the Cervical Medial Branch Nerves

Abstract

Axial neck pain is a prevalent and often debilitating pain condition with conventional treatment options that commonly lack efficacy or are neurodestructive (e.g., radiofrequency ablation). Sixty-day percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) has emerged as a potential non-destructive treatment for axial neck pain that targets efferent fibers in the cervical medial branch nerves to secondarily produce comfortable, cycling tension in core cervical musculature (e.g., multifidus). The present work is a retrospective review of outcomes from patients receiving 60-day PNS treatment targeting the cervical medial branch nerves in routine clinical practice.