Neurotrauma as an Evolving Indication for Neuromodulation
Journal Title: Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Trauma is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. With the advent of life-saving procedures and better inpatient care in trauma-specialized centers in our country, more and more patients are getting their lives back although with residual handicaps, disabilities and pain. Specific therapies must be used to increase quality of life and decrease pain and sufferings in trauma patients, when most of them are young and in their productive ages. Ablative neurosurgical procedures have been used in the past to treat different neurological diseases with significant irreversible side effects. They were useful in controlling pain or improving abnormal movements or behaviors in patients. Recently, many, albeit not all ablative surgeries have been replaced by neuro-stimulative technologies, which can produce the same effects but reversibly, so unwanted complications may be avoided.
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Ali Razmkon
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