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As a victim of both osteo and rheumatoid arthritis I was delighted at the news that sufferers now have fresh hope of something that will answer their needs. The news has been published that some after patients - given a revolutionary new electronic implant - were effectively cured of the dreadful condition.
It appears that the doctors concerned employed tiny pacemaker style devices which were embedded in the necks of severe rheumatoid arthritis patients - like myself - to effectively hack into their electrical nervous systems and fire bursts of electrical impulses.
These target a key nerve for relaying brain signals to vital organs in the body and the researchers conducting this groundbreaking implant trial claim that over 50% of patients have found their condition dramatically improved. Considering that almost half a million …show more content…
This study was of 20 patients andcarried out at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre where rheumatologist professor Paul-Peter Tak commented that even the most difficult patients to treat showed a clear trend of improvement and further expressed a belief that achieving remission in 20% to 30% of patients was quite feasible.
This would of course represent a major step forward in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and the hope is that the treatment will be widely available within a decade. Exactly how this implant comes to be so effective has yet to be definitively understood though it is known that the implants stimulates the vagus nerve.
This connects the major organs to the brain and accounts for most so-called automatic body functions like heart-rate and breathing. The researchers found that a mere 180 seconds daily of the firing of impulses from the implant reduced spleen
As a victim of both osteo and rheumatoid arthritis I was delighted at the news that sufferers now have fresh hope of something that will answer their needs. The news has been published that some after patients - given a revolutionary new electronic implant - were effectively cured of the dreadful condition.
It appears that the doctors concerned employed tiny pacemaker style devices which were embedded in the necks of severe rheumatoid arthritis patients - like myself - to effectively hack into their electrical nervous systems and fire bursts of electrical impulses.
These target a key nerve for relaying brain signals to vital organs in the body and the researchers conducting this groundbreaking implant trial claim that over 50% of patients have found their condition dramatically improved. Considering that almost half a million …show more content…
This study was of 20 patients andcarried out at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre where rheumatologist professor Paul-Peter Tak commented that even the most difficult patients to treat showed a clear trend of improvement and further expressed a belief that achieving remission in 20% to 30% of patients was quite feasible.
This would of course represent a major step forward in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and the hope is that the treatment will be widely available within a decade. Exactly how this implant comes to be so effective has yet to be definitively understood though it is known that the implants stimulates the vagus nerve.
This connects the major organs to the brain and accounts for most so-called automatic body functions like heart-rate and breathing. The researchers found that a mere 180 seconds daily of the firing of impulses from the implant reduced spleen