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Pain surgery is aimed at very specific situations when common analgesic treatment has no effect.

They are generally anaesthetic procedures carried out in a surgical theatre:

• Percutaneous neurostimulation,

• Medullar or intra-ventricular analgesia

• Regional nerve blocks (with local analgesic drugs or neurolytic agent),

• More rarely interruption neurosurgery (cordotomia, posterior root sections).

The irreversible sequelae of such procedures and their relative efficiency should induce surgeons to identify the indications of such treatment modalities through extensive discussion and consensus.