Report of the 12th World Congress of Neuromodulation INS Montreal, Canada

Abstract

For several years we have been thinking that neuromodulation, since it is a science that ignores some elementary principles of its mechanisms of action, must necessarily enter a threshold or “ceiling”, if not directly into a decline until leaving an upper limit, with defined basic features and methods, which establish a series of regulated indications and techniques, which could change later only with technical development or new ideas about applications.
However, far from this, we have been witnessing, with amazement, its increasing growth, not only in the development of "classic" indications such as chronic pain, abnormal movements, spasticity, peripheral vasculopathies, in favor of the growth and continuous development of technology and the acquisition of practical experience on applications and indications, together with the notable growth of uromodulation that already constitutes a separate subspecialty, but also in the number of disciplines that have begun its application in the recent past, new uses in cardiology, psychiatry , gastroenterology, speech therapy, addictions, etc.