The efficacy and prognosis analysis of short-term spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of zoster-associated pain: a retrospective study

Our findings suggest that, stSCS effectively relieves ZAP patients' pain, reduces analgesics consumption, improves sleep quality, with low complication rate and high safety. Notably, age, disease course, diabetes mellitus, and pain area size are independent risk factors for its efficacy. The C-index and ROC area, both 0.824, show the prediction model has good accuracy and discriminative power.