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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 36% of veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from severe migraine or cluster headaches.
While doctors can prescribe different drugs, one of America s leading pain management physicians has developed another type of treatment.
Dr. Peter Staats is the cofounder and chief medical officer of electroCore the medical device company that makes gammaCore, a patented device that electrically stimulates the vagus nerve to block the pain signals causing debilitating headaches.
The apparatus is called gammaCore Sapphire. The vagus nerve is the cranial radial nerve in the body, Staats told Military.com. I started this company searching for a solution for airway reactivity and anaphylaxis in an animal model. When we started studying humans, patients were saying, My headaches went away.
National Spine and Pain Centers Completes Combination with Prospira PainCare
Creates the Nation s Largest Network of Affiliated Interventional Pain Management Specialists
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ROCKVILLE, Md. and ROSWELL, Ga., Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ National Spine & Pain Centers (NSPC), the nation s leading network of interventional pain practices, today announced that it has completed a combination with Prospira PainCare. Now, with more than 300 affiliated providers practicing in 119 locations across the U.S., the combined organization will facilitate approximately 1.2 million patient visits a year for those suffering with chronic pain.
Studies estimate that the prevalence of chronic pain may be as high as 40% of the U.S. population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chronic pain is linked to numerous physical and mental conditions, and contributes to exceedingly high healthcare costs, including lost produc
LOS ANGELES (KABC) Hospitalization rates for COVID-19 patients are at an all-time high. And since COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, many people in the hospital find themselves struggling to breathe freely.
But now, a device mainly used to treat migraines has just received emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration to help COVID patients breathe a little easier. Antivirals, high-dose steroids, oxygen, inhalers, antibiotics, you name it, said Marshall Bedder, who was hospitalized with COVID-19.
Bedder was prescribed it all as doctors treated him for the coronavirus. He had difficulty breathing and his oxygen levels were low.