Pain medication tapering for patients with Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome Type II, treated with Spinal Cord Stimulation: A RCT–study protocol of the PIANISSIMO study

• Maarten Moens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Neurosurgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Radiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Center for Neurosciences (C4N), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Pain in Motion Research Group (PAIN), Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education & Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Cleo Lina Crunelle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Neurosciences (C4N), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University Hospital Brussels (UZ Brussel), Brussel, Belgium

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• Koen Putman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Public Health (GEWE), Interuniversity Centre for Health Economics Research (I-CHER), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Elke Wuyts,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7322-4628

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• Frenn Bultinck,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Public Health (GEWE), Interuniversity Centre for Health Economics Research (I-CHER), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4176-6515

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• Hubert Van Puyenbroeck,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• PIANISSIMO consortium ,

  ¶Complete membership can be found in Acknowledgments.

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• Lisa Goudman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lisa.goudman@vub.be

  Affiliations STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Neurosurgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Center for Neurosciences (C4N), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Pain in Motion Research Group (PAIN), Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education & Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Brussel, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-9855

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