This 20 month long trial was small - involving eight people with intractable cluster headache for whom drugs and indeed other surgery hadn't helped. Occipital nerve stimulation benefited six of them.

1 Department of Neurology, Headache Centre & Pain Neuromodulation Unit, Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy. 2 Department of Neurosurgery ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland — A novel, noninvasive neurostimulator targeting the vagus nerve improves on treatment of chronic cluster headaches over the current standard of care, according to a new study.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved the use of vagus nerve stimulation devices to treat a variety of health conditions, including depression, cluster headaches, migraines and epilepsy.

Stimulating nerves in the brain may help ease pain for people who have not been able to find relief from cluster headaches, two teams say. CBC News · Posted: Mar 08, 2007 1:10 PM EST | Last ...

Patients with occipital headache experienced relief with 60 days of peripheral nerve stimulation, according to data presented ...

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The Food and Drug Administration approved a device on Tuesday meant to treat cluster headaches — a rare form of headache that affects mostly men. The device is a vagus nerve stimulator and it ...

It’s still experimental, but neurostimulation might hold promise if other treatments for cluster headaches don’t help. WebMD explains what it is and how it works.

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