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Analgesia
Postoperative left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces analgesia use
October 25th, 2006
Postoperative left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces patient-controlled analgesia use. According to a report from the United States, "Several recent studies suggest that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation can temporarily reduce pain perception in neuropathic pain patients and in healthy adults using laboratory pain models. No studies have investigated the effects of prefrontal cortex stimulation using transcranial magnetic stimulation on postoperative pain." J.J. Borckardt and colleagues at the Medical University of South Carolina wrote, "Twenty gastric bypass surgery patients were randomly assigned to receive...
Source: Biotech Week (2006-10-25)
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