Spinal cord stimulation can provide significant long-term pain relief with improved quality of life and employment. Results of this study will be effective in better defining prognostic factors and reducing complications leading to higher success rates with spinal cord stimulation.

SCS is cost-effective in the long term, despite the initial high costs of the implantable devices.

In patients who respond to this treatment, IDT is cost effective in the long term despite high initial costs of implantable devices.