Neuromodulation as a Treatment for Migraine | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Umer Najib, MD, FAHS, is an assistant professor in neurology at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University and program director for the Headache Medicine Fellowship[1]. He recently spoke on neuromodulation as a potential treatment for patients with migraine. Watch the full interview from the 2018 Scottsdale Headache Symposium here:

Neuromodulation is the modulation or manipulation of the central pain system via invasive or non-invasive electrical pulses or magnetic pulses. Najib highlighted three types of FDA-approved non-invasive neuromodulation: the external trigeminal nerve stimulation, which stimulates trigeminal nerve branches via application to the forehead for the prevention of migraine; transcranial magnetic...