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Chronic pain after spinal surgery, which is called failed back syndrome, is known as chronic pain developing or increasing in intensity after surgery that persists or recurs for longer than 3 months following spinal surgery. This type of pain remains challenging to treat with medications and interventions including conventional spinal cord stimulation (SCS) particularly when it involves intractable axial pain. Recently, Differential Target Multiplexed (DTM) SCS has been introduced, which is a new stimulation paradigm with the aim of modulating glial cells and neurons to rebalance their interactions. DTM SCS has been mainly applied to patients with low back and lower extremity pain, and its use in cervical or upper extremity pain has been rarely reported. In this report, we present a case of DTM SCS, which successfully treat the patient with intractable chronic cervical axial pain after cervical spinal surgery.