{"id":24698,"date":"2016-04-15T05:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-without-drugs-thanks-to-brain-stimulation"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:17:20","slug":"new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-without-drugs-thanks-to-brain-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-without-drugs-thanks-to-brain-stimulation","title":{"rendered":"New Device Can Ease Chronic Pain Without Drugs, Thanks to Brain Stimulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-without-drugs-thanks-to-brain-stimulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new method of pain treatment can prevent risky side-effects such as addiction, dependence, and overdose-related deaths \u2014 and it does so using electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Abuse of prescription pain killers or opioid medicines is common. But then again, how else can you <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/?s=pain\">treat chronic pain<\/a>? Unfortunately, addiction is a terrible side-effect that can lead to overdose-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But now a research team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ph\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjs3Z6cgIfMAhWG26YKHU8fCAwQFghGMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uta.edu%2Fnews%2Freleases%2F2016%2F04%2FDeep-brain-stimulation.php&usg=AFQjCNHL81b0TBdftlMxZrbM9VEbMx0e1A&sig2=0nZUP-m9eIiLkBdP9NZXJg&bvm=bv.119028448,d.dGY&cad=rja\" target=\"_blank\">University of Arlington<\/a> seems to have found a better and more efficient solution: Electrical stimulation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-deep-brain-stimulation\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/new-device-can-ease-chronic-pain-deep-brain-stimulation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new method of pain treatment can prevent risky side-effects such as addiction, dependence, and overdose-related deaths \u2014 and it does so using electricity. Abuse of prescription pain killers or opioid medicines is common. But then again, how else can you treat chronic pain? Unfortunately, addiction is a terrible side-effect that can lead to overdose-related [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50810,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions\/50810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}