2024 Volume 31 Issue 2 Pages 51-54
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is considered to be an effective therapy for neuropathic pain that does not respond to conservative treatment. We report a case in which SCS effectively improved the chronic intractable lower leg pain due to nutritional and alcoholic neuropathy. A 40-year-old woman, with a history of alcoholism and anorexia. About two-years ago, she presented with lower leg pain. She was diagnosed with nutritional and alcoholic neuropathy by a neurologist and treated with vitamin supplementation. However, she was suffering from severe pain, and she was referred to our department. We treated with conservative treatments but they were not effective. Therefore, SCS was performed, and her symptoms improved after surgery. Metabolic neuropathy due to vitamin deficiency and alcoholism is occasionally accompanied by a form of intractable pain despite treatment of the primary disease. SCS treatment should be considered as an effective treatment for non-responders to conservative treatments.
