Nerve stimulation therapy alleviates pain for chronic headache
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. read more
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