
For a chronic migraine sufferer — or “migraineur” — days spent with severe pain can often outnumber days spent without it. There are 36 million people in the U.S. who suffer from chronic migraines, which means each of them endures a migraine headache for 15 days or more per month. Although a migraine doesn’t limit mobility like other physiological pains, it is debilitating and is indeed considered a chronic illness.
While traditional migraine treatments include prescription drugs, injections and other invasive methods, there is a non-pharmacological procedure that truly gets to the root of the problem. With the knowledge that migraines are caused by neurological mechanisms, Dr. Sukdeb Datta and the physicians of Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center, treat eligible migraine patients with an implanted neurostimulator. Implanted during aminimally invasive surgical procedure, neurostimulation therapy incites the nerves in the occipital and supraorbital regions using light electrode pulses to block pain signals that want to communicate with the brain. The device is programmed to cater to the patient’s specific needs and patients can control the device using a remote.
If anyone needed to be migraine-free it was rock concert photographer Keith. Watch Keith describe this life-changing procedure at Datta Endoscopic. Like he says, “I’m still getting used to not having a migraine all the time.”
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