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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.