Friday, May 24, 2013

Health here is the razor that 'size' headaches - AGI - Journalistic Agency Italy

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14:04 May 24, 2013 Into (AGI) – Rome, May 24 – A kind of electric shaver, to be placed on the neck just as you do to shave, but to disappear and not ‘a beard, and’ headaches. After the successes abroad, arrives in Italy nVNS the stimulator, which stands for noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation or more ‘simply gammacore, useful in both the treatment and symptomatic and in the prophylaxis of migraine and cluster headaches. The main revolution of this device, the size of a cell phone, and ‘that does not require any brain surgery to place pacing, a revolution similar to that in computer has allowed us to move from wired to wireless. Just place it outside on the right side of the neck, as is done with an electric razor.
Gammacore emits electrical microstimoli about 90 seconds, via the vagus nerve, go back to the areas of the brain, reducing the hyper-excitability R 16;. The intensity ‘of the stimulus can’ easily be varied by a special wheel until the patient does not perceive mild subcutaneous muscle contractions. Using it at the first sign of a migraine or cluster headache the patient can ‘avert more’ easily. Remains the fundamental task of education of the patient: “You must first train patients-says Dr. Licia Grazzi of Besta who, along with colleagues at the San Raffaele Hospital in Rome, directed by Professor Piero Barbanti, conducted the first study of Italian over 30 migraineurs with age ‘between 18 and 65 years-Only with a good patient education reduces errors by improper use and will significantly increase the possibility’ of success “According to Professor Barbanti of the San Raffaele Hospital in Rome and the results are promising the pain is on the accompanying symptoms and patients easily acquire good familiarity nell’autostimolazione. The tolerability ‘general seem s great, although contractions of facial muscles may occur less if patients are wrong to place the instrument, the more reason’ to learn how to use the gammacore in the right way. (AGI) PGI.

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