Pain Intervention: A Market of Moving Targets

SmartTRAK highlights key movements in the quickly changing landscape of interventional pain management and identifies practice trends surrounding SCS, PNS, minimally invasive spine and SI Joint Fusion from the recent ASPN and INS meetings.

Strong demand for alternatives to narcotic pain management combined with an aging population and growing incidence of chronic pain continue to drive demand for interventional pain techniques. The approach to the treatment of chronic intractable pain is evolving, with a shift toward data-focused treatment optimization, growing use of digital monitoring and holistic evaluation of patient outcomes. Furthermore, increasing overlap among various devices and therapies as well as unclear boundaries between interventional pain, orthopedic and spine practices is spurring physicians to adopt collaborative approaches to patient care.

Among the many timely topics covered in this comprehensive Market Outlook article "Pain Intervention: A Market of Moving Targets", which can be downloaded in its entirety here, are:

• Spinal Cord Stimulation
  
  • Digital Care and Data-driven Therapy
  • Multi-faceted Patient Outcomes
  • Communication Between Specialties
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
  
  • Increasing Competition and Evidence
  • New Solutions for PNS Challenges
  • Hurdles for Coverage and Reimbursement
• Minimally Invasive Spine, SI Joint Fusion & Procedural Training Concerns
  • MIS Spine
  • SI Joint Fusion–A Market to Watch
  • Concerns Regarding Procedural Training

Overall, the interventional pain market is a moving target presenting a unique set of difficult-to-define boundaries and plenty of opportunity. It is no secret that there is ubiquitous pressure in the medtech industry to ...

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