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Ms And Hand Pain
A small study has found that a hand-held device may help ease migraine pain in some sufferers. The device delivers transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) into the head that creates an electrical current among nerve cells in the brain. These currents disrupt migraines in the "aura" phase, before they trigger pain. In a study of 201 patients suffering from migraine with aura, researchers found that two hours after treatment, 39 percent of patients given the TMS device were pain-free, versus 22...
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