Magnetic device for the treatment of migraine approved by the authorities

US regulators approved the sale and use of the country's new devaysa to combat pain caused by migraines. It uses magnetic stimulation of the back of the head.

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Expert Center for evaluation of the effectiveness of medical devices of the Office for Drug Control and the US Food Christy Foreman recalls that migraine headaches are characterized by intense throbbing pain in a certain area of ​​the head. Often the pain is accompanied by dizziness and / or nausea and sensitivity to light and sound.

Migraines can last from 4 to 72 hours without the use of painkillers. From the variety of headaches affecting up to 10% of the world's population, and women migraines occur three times more often than men. Device Cerena TMS, which will be sold in the US by prescription, is used immediately after the first occurrence of pain in migraine with aura. The device must be kept both hands from the back of the head, to produce pulses of magnetic energy to stimulate the occipital cortex. It can stop or reduce the pain associated with migraine.

The drug has passed through clinical studies involving 201 patients suffering from moderate or severe migraine with aura and without. Of these, 113 unit helped numb the pain completely. Thus 38% of these 113 after use Cerena TMS pain disappeared for two hours or more, compared with 17% of patients in the control group. After 24 hours of symptom onset in 34% of those who used the device for Migraine Treatment , The pain is still missing, and those in the control group had only 10%.

Cerena TMS can not be used for those patients who have head, neck and upper body installed any metal plates. Contraindicated in patients with the device cardiac pacemakers and brain stimulants, and patients with epilepsy. (READ MORE)

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