Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Upper and Lower Extremity Neuropathic Pain due to Lyme Disease.

Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia, a bacterium transmitted by Background. the bite of a deer tick. A slow developing encephalopathy or an axonal polyneuropathy with distal paresthesia and spinal or radicular pain rarely We report here the case occurs and can be hard to treat. Materials and Methods. of a 44-year-old woman with four-limb, intolerable, neuropathic pain as sequelae to Lyme disease, which was resistant to conservative measures and was treated successfully with concurrent, thoracic, and cervical percutaneous spinal cord After 18 months of therapy and follow-up, this stimulation (SCS). Results. patient's analgesia, as a result of SCS, continues to be excellent, with almost complete subjective pain relief and cessation of adjuvant analgesic medication. SCS may be efficacious for the treatment of neuropathic pain due Conclusions. to Lyme disease.