Vagus Nerve Stimulation Succeeds in Long-Term Stroke Recovery Trial
From: IEEE Spectrum - 05/30/2017
By: Samuel K. Moore

An implanted device can improve the ability of certain stroke victims to
relearn movement, according to the results of a nine-month-long study
released today at the International Neuromodulation Society Conference in
Edinburgh, UK. Doctors working with Dallas-based Microtransponder implanted a
device that electrically stimulates the vagus nerve on the left side of a
patient’s neck at the exact moments when he or she is doing movements that
are components of standard physical therapy sessions. At the end of six
weeks, 75 percent of patients who had their vagus nerve stimulated during
physical therapy saw a clinically meaningful benefit, compared with 33
percent of those in the therapy-only control group, according to
Microtranspnder. That number went up to 88 percent at 90 days, and continued
to show gains at six months and nine months.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/vagus-nerve-stimulation-succeeds-in-longterm-stroke-recovery

Links:
Microtransponder
http://www.microtransponder.com

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