Move Over VNS…There’s A New Guy in Town! | August 21, 2025

What if I were to say there’s a new nerve stimulation therapy that requires NO SURGERY and reduces seizures among those who are drug resistant by about 40 percent?

SAY HELLO TO TRIGEMINAL NERVE STIMULATION!

The difference between this experimental device and the VNS is that the skin is never penetrated and the TNS is powered by an external device about the size of a large cell phone.

Imagine putting one gel pad on each eyebrow for 12 hours a day — and getting this kind of radical seizure relief.

(Not that much of an inconvenience since it can be worn at night when you’re asleep or during the evening when you’re home.)

All you feel is a “slight tingling sensation”. A small sacrifice for such a great pay-off.

With a reduction of depression as a bonus.

It is also effective for relief of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),  Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Lennox Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

How does it work?

Traditional approaches to treating epilepsy and neuropsychiatric disorders have focused on the use of pharmaceutical products.

While these treatments have been successful for many individuals, significant numbers of people continue to suffer, despite trying multiple medications, and the medications often carry side-effects that limit their use.

In recent years, neuromodulation has emerged as an alternative treatment for these disorders.

But current generation systems are invasive, expensive, with the lack of a way to predict whether you will respond to that treatment prior to implantation.

NeuroSigma’s unique eTNS/sTNS approach uses the brain’s existing circuitry to achieve a therapeutic effect.

You can quickly and simply initiate treatment with the non-invasive eTNS system.

Therapy is simple to deliver, and can be done in the comfort and privacy of your own home.

If you respond positively to the eTNS, you have the option of eventually “graduating” to having the sTNS system implanted, assured that it will be effective prior to exposing yourself to the risks of surgery.

The decision is up to you.

But, either way you choose to go, it’s a win-win situation!

NOTE: Available in the European Union, Canada and Australia. In the United States, both eTNS and sTNS are investigational devices and are limited by Federal (or United States) law for investigational use.

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Resources:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138619259/new-device-reduces-seizures-no-surgery-required?ft=1&f=100

https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy/devices/external-trigeminal-nerve-stimulation

http://www.neurosigma.com/tns.html

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/780121

 

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