Neurostimulation Helped Children's Intractable Constipation
Significant improvement in hardest-to-treat chronic constipation shown in novel use of electrical stimulation (neurostimulation) at home.
View ArticleInternational Guidance on Devices for Head and Body Pain
The first set of recommendations about patient selection and appropriateness for implantation of "digital drugs" to manage chronic pain are devised to deliver better care and reduce complications using...
View ArticleExperts Examine Future Options in Digital Drugs for Pain
Expert physicians and neuroscientists look to the future of "digital drugs," implantable devices for the treatment of pain. Exciting new options include focus on dorsal root ganglion; new frequencies...
View ArticleWeight Loss Trend
A deep brain stimulation trial in treatment-resistant obesity linked a weight loss trend to a metabolism increase programmed in a metabolic chamber, according to a pilot study presented at the...
View ArticleInternational Neuromodulation Society Names "Giant Of Neuromodulation"
The market for neuromodulation devices that can manage pain, neurologic disease, and other conditions has grown at a CAGR of about 9% since 2008 to $2.6 billion today, with a global penetration of...
View ArticleOffering Neuromodulation Earlier Could be Better in Complex Regional Pain...
Since spinal cord stimulation (SCS) was approved by the FDA in 1989 to treat chronic neuropathic pain of the trunk and limbs, word about the option is growing among primary care providers, specialists...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers About Neurostimulation and the Neuromodulation...
Neuromodulation appropriateness consensus committee questions and answers regarding neurostimulation and the committee findings
View ArticleExperts Issue Comprehensive Guidance on the Use of Neurostimulation in...
The Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee consists of 60 neurostimulation experts convened by the International Neuromodulation Society to respond to the need to better define use of...
View ArticleExperts Share Advances in Neural Interventions for Chronic Conditions
The International Neuromodulation Society 12th World Congress in Montreal June 6 - 11, 2015 features traditional and cutting-edge ways to address chronic disease through interfacing with the body's...
View ArticleNeuromodulation Innovation - and Reimbursement
"Innovations in Neuromodulation," a preconference of the International Neuromodulation Society 12th World Congress, presents updates and opinions from representatives of early-stage companies and...
View ArticleInternational Congress to Highlight Ways Neuromodulation Transforms Medical...
The 12th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society scientific program, from June 8 - 11, 2015 in Montreal, will present landmark studies about neurostimulation therapy and...
View ArticleMore Than 1,300 International Experts in Montreal Will Address a Promising...
The public is invited to a free talk by doctors and patients on neuromodulation before a three-day world congress brings more than 1,300 international experts to Montreal to discuss this promising...
View ArticleU.S. Space Program Researchers Develop Potential Nano-Tools for Deep Brain...
The ability of a carbon nanofiber pad to detect changing neurotransmitter concentrations was demonstrated in a proof-of-principle collaboration between engineers and neurosurgeons at NASA Ames Research...
View ArticleWeekly Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Provides Long-Term Relief of...
Weekly sessions of non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation provided sufficient long-term pain relief in 61 percent of patients with central post-stroke pain, and delivered long-term...
View ArticleFive Scientific Abstracts Win Inaugural Competition at the International...
Winning research abstracts present: a custom neural prosthesis to combat paralysis; cellular evidence of stroke recovery; tuning treatment of Parkinson's disease; validation of a pain model; and...
View ArticleNon-Invasive Acupoint Stimulation May be a New Bioelectronics Approach to...
U.S. and Chinese researchers have begun a controlled clinical trial in Crohn's disease using surface electrodes daily to stimulate an acupuncture point on the stomach meridian that was shown to reduce...
View ArticleRelief of Dystonia Symptoms Is Sustained in Pediatric Patients Undergoing...
Children and adolescents who received deep brain stimulation for generalized dystonia maintained significant symptom relief for up to eight years, according to a study presented today at the 12th World...
View ArticleWorld's First Publicly Funded Spinal Cord Stimulation Pilot Study Supports...
Researchers funded by the National Institute for Health Research to conduct a multi-center pilot study of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in refractory chronic angina pectoris will advise NICE that a...
View ArticleSpinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain Led to Decreased Healthcare Costs...
A study at the Vancouver Island Health Authority (government health plan) supports findings that costs of spinal cord stimulation implants are recouped due to decreased demands for medical treatment in...
View ArticleThe International Neuromodulation Society Names a Giant of Neuromodulation
Clinatec chairman Alim-Louis Benabid, MD, PhD -- considered the "father of deep brain stimulation " -- receives the International Neuromodulation Society's third Giant of Neuromodulation award at its...
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