introduction failed back surgery syndrome (fbss) is an increasing cause of chronic pain in most countries. this poses high costs to both patients and national health organizations. case presentation in this report, multimodal pain management based on daily high-dose oxycodone/naloxone (oxn 180/90 mg) led to reduced patient's pain score and improved quality of life. conclusions oxycodone/naloxon...

A review of the etiology, clinical, radiological, differential diagnosis and management goals of failed back surgery syndrome is presented.

Low back pain shows signifi cant response to stimulation A 2004 systematic review of SCS for all indications included 51 studies and 2973 patients. Sixteen of the studies, with a total of 616 patients, focused on low back pain, specifi cally chronic back pain and failed back surgery syndrome. Two of the 16 studies were prospective controlled trials, 8 were prospective trials without controls, a...