Spinal cord stimulation is increasingly requested in chronic pain cases, including personal injury, workers’ compensation, disability, and independent medical examination settings. The technology can be helpful in properly selected patients, especially when chronic neuropathic pain is present and conservative treatment has failed.
Persistent pain after a motor vehicle accident is one of the most common issues in independent medical examinations, personal injury litigation, workers’ compensation, disability evaluations, and medical record reviews.
Independent medical examiners frequently encounter complaints, behaviors, or examination findings that do not correlate with known anatomy, physiology, pathology, or the diagnostic studies in the record. These findings are often called non-physiologic findings, nonanatomic findings, or nonorganic findings.
Degenerative cervical spondylosis is one of the most common findings encountered in independent medical examinations, personal injury claims, workers’ compensation evaluations, disability reviews, and medical-legal causation analysis.
