Rheumatoid arthritis kept her captive. This nerve stimulator set her free
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5544463/rheumatoid-arthritis-new-device-nerve-stimulator
Rheumatoid arthritis kept her captive. This nerve stimulator set her free
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5544463/rheumatoid-arthritis-new-device-nerve-stimulator
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For more than four years, Lynn Milam’s life was bound by the pain that radiated from her swollen joints.
That changed in October of 2023, when a surgeon implanted an experimental device in Milam’s neck. For a minute each morning, it delivers pulses of electricity to her vagus nerve, which connects the brain with internal organs.
Eventually, all symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis had vanished. Milam, 60, says she and her husband have regained the life they enjoyed before she got sick.
Sounds promising. If this has widespread application I could potentially see multiple people in my close family helped. Let’s hope they are on to something big with this.
I really hate that this title format has become acceptable as news headlines.