Shashikala Ramakrishna

1 month ago | bmjopen.bmj.com | Matthew Moore |Elaine Davies |Jamie Sleigh |Shashikala Ramakrishna

Participants made it clear during their interviews that for us to understand their experiences with the stimulator we needed to understand their lives prior to implantation. Chronic pain had disrupted their personal, professional, and social lives and was considered an obstacle to achieving previously held personal goals. This disruption is the context from which participants experienced their stimulator.