Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

Don’t let localized nerve pain diminish your quality of life when simple treatments can ease your discomfort. At Border Pain Institute in El Paso, Texas, board-certified pain management specialist Carlos Viesca, MD, and his team provide peripheral nerve stimulation to provide you with a pain-free life without surgery. Schedule an evaluation today by calling the office or booking an appointment online.

What is peripheral nerve stimulation?

Peripheral nerve stimulation is a pain-reducing treatment for chronic (ongoing) discomfort. The treatment uses electrical energy to reduce pain signals and improve your quality of life. Border Pain Institute offers this service to people struggling with extreme or long-lasting (chronic) pain. Call your provider at the first sign of a problem.

Which conditions do peripheral nerve stimulation address?

Peripheral nerve stimulation at Border Pain Institute is a standard treatment for pain caused by:

• Localized nerve damage
• Nerve pain
• Trauma
• Previous surgery
• Diabetes
• Pain after limb amputation, also called phantom limb pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Injuries
• Headaches
• Peripheral neuropathy

See your provider if you experience any pain, regardless of its cause. The Border Pain Institute experts treat many pain-causing conditions using injections, therapies, medication, spinal cord stimulation, and other procedures.

Is peripheral nerve stimulation right for me?

To determine if you’re a candidate for peripheral nerve stimulation at Border Pain Institute, your provider discusses your symptoms, lifestyle, medications, medical history, and treatment preferences. They could order bloodwork, nerve tests, imaging procedures, and/or other diagnostic tests.

What does peripheral nerve stimulation entail?

Peripheral nerve stimulation involves placing a small electrical device next to peripheral nerves outside your spinal cord or brain. The device delivers rapid electrical pulses to replace the pain. You use a hand-held controller or app on your phone to control the intensity of pulses.

Peripheral nerve stimulation is like spinal cord stimulation. But the electrical currents affect nerves that travel from your spinal cord to organs or limbs.

Your provider completes a trial run to test your body’s response to temporary electrodes. If the trial treatment reduces your pain, your specialist places permanent electrodes at the site of peripheral nerves and a battery-operated stimulator under your skin.

The Border Pain Institute team inserts peripheral nerve stimulators during a minor surgery that involves local anesthesia on an outpatient basis.

What can I expect after peripheral nerve stimulator implantation?

Have someone drive you home after stimulator placement. You can generally head home the same day. Follow your after-procedure instructions, get plenty of sleep, take medication as directed, and avoid strenuous activity until given the OK.

Follow up with the Border Pain Institute team and use your controller to send impulses to nerves for pain relief as needed.

Schedule an in-person or telehealth evaluation at Border Pain Institute today by phone or online to determine if peripheral nerve stimulation is right for you.