HFX is a comprehensive solution that includes a Senza spinal cord stimulation system and support services for the treatment of chronic pain.
When you’re living with chronic pain, you know how difficult chronic pain can be to understand.
Below is your guide to what you need to know about chronic pain.What are the types of chronic pain?Understanding the type of your pain is the best way to determine which treatment options can provide you with the most relief.
There are two types of chronic pain. If you are experiencing chronic pain, you may experience just one type or a mix of both types.
Mechanical Pain
When bones, ligaments, tendons, or muscles are damaged, the injury can cause pain. Doctors call this type of pain mechanical pain. If you have chronic pain after an injury, it is likely mechanical pain.
Nerve Pain
Neuropathic pain is often called nerve pain. Damaged nerves can overproduce pain signals, and this type of pain occurs when these false pain signals are sent to your brain. When the signal is strong, so is the pain. Because there is often no obvious pain source, nerve pain can be challenging – but not impossible – to treat.What are the pros and cons of common chronic pain treatment options?When treating chronic pain, your doctor may prescribe medications, surgery, or injections to help you find relief. Every person and situation is different. So it makes sense that responses to these treatment options vary. They may leave you managing unwanted side effects.
Here are some of the pros and cons of traditional treatment options:
Prescription medications
Pros: Medication is often beneficial for acute pain.
Cons: The most significant drawbacks to prescription medication are the potential side effects, including constipation, drowsiness, and potential addiction.
Spine Surgery
Pros: If your pain is caused by damage to the bones, ligaments, tendons, or muscles, spine surgery can be an effective treatment option.
Cons: While spine surgery is appropriate for correcting mechanical issues, there is no guarantee that it will reduce your pain. And spine surgery is often ineffective for resolving nerve pain.
Epidural Steroid Injections
Pros: An epidural steroid injection delivers steroids directly into your spine. You may find injections effective for short-term pain relief.
Cons: Injections typically don’t offer long-term pain relief. If you are receiving epidurals, you will make regular visits to your healthcare provider for treatment.What is Spinal Cord Stimulation?
If you live with chronic pain, you may be looking for a long-term option for pain relief. Spinal cord stimulator (SCS) systems have been used in the U.S. for more than 30 years for chronic pain treatment. SCS systems are helping people experience less pain and get back to the things they love.
So, how does it work? With a spinal cord stimulator, the transmission of pain signals to the brain is interrupted by delivering mild electrical pulses to the nerves. When this happens, many people experience less pain.
When exploring SCS options, it might be helpful to know HFX™ has been proven to deliver significantly better and longer-lasting pain relief from chronic back and leg pain than other SCS systems. Also, HFX is the most advanced SCS treatment offering the widest range of frequencies and waveforms available to individualize your relief.
You don’t have to live with chronic pain. There is hope. With the right treatment plan, you can reduce your pain and regain your independence.
Safety Information
HFX is indicated for chronic trunk and limb pain. Results may vary. Important safety & risk information here. Database includes US Physicians only. All physicians are active users of the HFX solution. No physicians have paid or received a fee to be listed on this site. When choosing a physician, we encourage you to complete your own research, as Nevro does not verify or monitor the qualifications of any physicians in this database. The phone numbers provided in this directory may be tracked by a third party to assess call frequency and duration.Follow us
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