The Neuromodulation Society of Australia & New Zealand
MEDIA RELEASE: NSANZ calls for a collaborative but independent device registry for spinal cord stimulators.
The ABC 4 Corners program entitled “The Pain Factory” that was aired on 8th April contained a series of allegations around one aspect of neuromodulation, namely spinal cord stimulation - and featured Dr Rachel David calling for this therapy to be removed from the suite of options available for patients suffering intractable neuropathic pain, primarily on the basis of privately held data of the health funds she represents and advocates for. Criticisms were made of the Therapeutic Goods Administration that were neither substantiated nor rationally based.
The Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand would like to see a rational and sensible discussion of the evidence base for the role of spinal cord stimulation in refractory neuropathic pain which has the highest level of evidence of efficacy and is performed in a very small minority of suitable patients for whom other options have either been exhausted or are unsuitable.
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