The CNS Awarded Paper of the Year Award to the Micro-Leads team for “High-Resolution Spinal Motor Mapping Using Thoracic Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients With Chronic Pain”.

The publication key showed several new takeaways for spinal cord mapping:

– first demonstration of high resolution spinal cord stimulation (HR-SCS) with a new 8-column surgical paddle electrode in human subjects.

– feasibility of using HR-SCS to provide selective stimulation and to treat a wider area of the spinal cord and the associated dermatomes.

– medio-lateral SCS mapping show promise that HR-SCS may provide additional ipsilateral recruitment within the extremities which improve targeting of focal pain in the lower extremities.

– HR-SCS provides 50% wider stimulation area including dorsal columns, rootlets, and dorsal roots.