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New Pulse Device Promises Relief With Experimental Method

New York-Most people have suffered from a Migraine headache at one time or another and nearly everyone knows how a truly intense headache can make life a living hell.

Well a new type of experimental therapy promises to try to change all that.

A new Hand held device that delivers a small magnetic pulse into the head and brain of a person that is suffering from a Migraine headache attack is showing a lot of promise in its intial testing.

The device is known as a TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

It gives a magnetic pulse that when held up against a person’s head creates a current inside the head along the nerve cells of the brain.

This in turn works to try and disrupt the migraine headache in its “Aura” phase, hopefully before they progress to trigger pain.

Many people experience a aura or pre warning stage of a Migraine headache, which is marked by visual disturbances, such as zigzag lines, flashes of light or other such types of sensation.

After two hours of treatment 39 percent of TMS migraine headache sufferers were pain free, vs. about 22 percent that received a placebo with a sham device.