{"id":223752,"date":"2025-10-21T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/next-gen-coil-interface-for-non-contact-peripheral-nerve-stimulation-could-improve-treatment-for-chronic-pain"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:05:25","slug":"next-gen-coil-interface-for-non-contact-peripheral-nerve-stimulation-could-improve-treatment-for-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/next-gen-coil-interface-for-non-contact-peripheral-nerve-stimulation-could-improve-treatment-for-chronic-pain","title":{"rendered":"Next-gen coil interface for non-contact peripheral nerve stimulation could improve treatment for chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-gen-coil-interface-for-non-contact-peripheral-nerve-stimulation-could-improve-treatment-for-chronic-pain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has successfully developed a next-generation coil interface capable of efficiently and safely stimulating peripheral nerves. This breakthrough is significant in that it greatly enhances the efficiency and feasibility of non-contact nerve stimulation technology, enabling stimulation through magnetic fields without the need for direct contact between electrodes and nerves.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11127116\/\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering<\/i>. The team was led by Professor Sanghoon Lee from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there has been a growing demand for non-invasive (non-surgical, non-contact) approaches to treat peripheral nerve dysfunctions such as chronic pain, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/peripheral+neuropathy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">peripheral neuropathy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/carpal+tunnel+syndrome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carpal tunnel syndrome<\/a>, and facial nerve paralysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has successfully developed a next-generation coil interface capable of efficiently and safely stimulating peripheral nerves. This breakthrough is significant in that it greatly enhances the efficiency and feasibility of non-contact nerve stimulation technology, enabling stimulation through magnetic fields without the need for direct contact between electrodes and nerves. The findings are published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}