Sunday, December 26, 2010

Nerve-Zapping Implants May Help Fibromyalgia Pain

[Comment:  This sounds a bit extreme, but for what it's worth, here it is. It is counter to what many of us about the human body in that it is disrupting normal pain signals to obliterate pain rather than finding and resolving the source of the pain.]

Nerve-Zapping Implants May Help Fibromyalgia Pain
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/pain-management/fibromyalgia/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100268325&page=1

"After 15 years of battling fibromyalgia with medication and exercise, Lisa Simpson still had cramping, spasms, and pain all over her body.  "Just to have my 7-pound Chihuahua walk over my legs would cause severe pain," the 37-year-old medical assistant recalls.

Simpson had all but given up on finding relief when, in 2004, she saw a ray of hope. She was working in the office of an anesthesiologist at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., Mark Thimineur, MD, who had begun surgically implanting tiny, nerve-stimulating devices into fibromyalgia patients."

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