FDA-Authorized Shockwave Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

FDA-Authorized Shockwave Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

A wound-healing device can use pressure pulses instead of a blade or an injection. That is the compelling fact behind the diabetic-foot-ulcer story. In 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of SANUWAVE’s dermaPACE System for a defined...
FDA-Authorized Devices for ADHD, Tremor, Stroke & Sleep Apnea

FDA-Authorized Devices for ADHD, Tremor, Stroke & Sleep Apnea

Four medical breakthroughs. One overlooked lesson: a signal becomes useful when it reaches the right target in the right form and context. A forehead patch, a wrist-worn stimulator, a surgically implanted vagus-nerve system and a breath-sensing upper-airway implant...
10,000 Hz Nerve Pain Research: FDA-Approved Implanted SCS

10,000 Hz Nerve Pain Research: FDA-Approved Implanted SCS

A nerve-pain treatment does not have to produce a constant buzzing sensation to produce a meaningful clinical response. That is one of the important advances behind 10,000 Hz spinal cord stimulation. In the SENZA-PDN randomized trial, an implanted electrical system...