Deep brain stimulation for chronic pain: the results of two multi-center trials and a structured review.

The article by Dr. Coffey gives us a comprehensive review of the literature on deep brain stimulation (DBS) for pain produced in the 1980s and early 1990s, for two different types of electrodes manufactured by Medtronic. Although this paper does not have a necessarily positive conclusion, it is an important contribution to the literature which will, in all likelihood, conclude the discussions both on DBS for pain …