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This pilot study looks at how lowering doses of pain medications like opioids and gabapentin affects the spinal cord's response to a special type of spinal cord stimulation (closed-loop SCS) in people with persistent back pain after surgery. About 20 adults who are already candid…

This study is for people with chronic back and leg pain who are getting a spinal cord stimulator, a device that uses mild electrical pulses to block pain signals. Researchers want to see if different pain medications (like strong opioids or anticonvulsants) change how the spinal …