EON Mini Neurostimulator v. the "Smart Chip"

EON Mini Neurostimulator v

EON Mini Neurostimulator v. the "Smart Chip"

AtThe Pain Center of Arizona, we are the first to bring you technological advances inchronic pain treatment. Our very own Dr. Siwek was featured on a recent episode of the hit television series The Doctors explaining how spinal cord stimulation works. We are the first in so many realms of pain management, and it seems that technology is continuing to astound us.

Researchers in Australia have devised a "smart chip," as they're calling it, that has the ability to measure the properties of signals and pick out the ones that are carrying pain to the nerve center. When the chip detects a pain signal headed towards the brain, it shoots out a 10-volt electric pulse that blocks the pain signal."

The amazing part about this little miracle, and what separates it from theEON Mini Neurostimulator, is that according to the researchers, can decipher between the bodies normal electronic signals and the ones that transmit pain. The Neurostimulator, or spinal cord stimulator, sends electrical pulses to the spinal cord to interfere with the nerve impulses that make you feel pain. With the Neurostimulator, it is a constant, although small, electronic pulses. With the "smart chip," the electronic pulse is only distributed when pain signals are found.

This amazing little device is yet to have gone through human trials, but researchers are confident that trials will be positive and the chip will be fast tracked onto the medical market. The chip, much like the EON, is implanted surgically; however the EON is done using a local anesthetic and a sedative and is an outpatient procedure, while it appears the "smart chip" will be a little more invasive.

"The chip is sewn straight into a 1.22mm-wide polymer yarn that is merged with electronic wires. These wires will then be sewn into the human spine without causing any kind of damage to the spinal column, followed by hooking it up to a device that holds a small battery which powers the computer process, letting the chip go about its monitoring work." The computer process allows the chip to translate which signals are normal and which are pain signals.

The "smart chip" has a long way before it will reach the medical market and be available to those who are living with chronic pain, especially chronic back pain, but it opens up a world of possibilities in terms of computer processors recognizing pain signals and targeting only those signals.

For more information on the EON Mini Neurostimulator and Dr. Siwek's appearance on The Doctors, click on the following link:

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