Borrowing a treatment strategy proven to work for Parkinson’s disease, a team of researchers led by Ian D. Hentall, Ph.D. and Jonathan Jagid, M.D. from The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, expect to begin a clinical trial this fall to determine if electrically stimulating the brain of patients with spinal cord injuries can reduce their pain and other debilitating symptoms, perhaps permanently.
Researchers ready to try deep brain stimulation to reduce pain in spinal cord injured patients
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