Successful Treatment of Scar Pain with Scrambler Therapy.

Cureus. 2019 Oct 14;11(10):e5903. doi: 10.7759/cureus.5903.

Successful Treatment of Scar Pain with Scrambler Therapy.

Yarchoan M1, Naidoo J2, Smith TJ3.

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1Oncology, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA.2Oncology, Upper Aerodigestive Cancer Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA.3Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

Abstract

Scar pain from thoracotomy, hepatectomy, or similar operations is distressing and difficult to treat. Scrambler Therapy is a novel form of superficial neuromodulation that has been effective in treating different types of neuropathic pain. We report here two cases of dramatic relief from disabling scar pain with one or two sessions of Scrambler Therapy.

Copyright © 2019, Yarchoan et al.

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neuromodulation; post-thoracotomy pain syndrome; scar pain; scrambler therapyPMID: 31777690 PMCID: PMC6853271 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.5903