Electrical brain stimulation (EBS) is a surgical method for treating various diseases associated with the human brain.

It is used to treat some particularly serious diseases of the central nervous system.

Its use is approved only in case of complete inefficiency of all other methods of treatment. Electric stimulation of the brain is used by physicians quite a long time with various diseases of the extrapyramidal nervous system.

Such ailments include essential tremor, Parkinson's disease, various dystonia (muscle tone disorders).

In 2012, information was spread about the possibility of using this method to treat severe forms of depression, stroke, spinal cord injuries, with a variety of chronic pain that can not be treated with traditional pain relieving drugs. The last cases can arise in patients with oncological diseases. There are also separate descriptions of the effective use of this method for patients who are long-term in a coma.

Electrical stimulation of the brain is a very complex method. In addition, he has an impressive number of different contraindications to the use. In the countries of the former USSR this method does not apply. In medical practice, there is also a practice of percutaneous electrostimulation.

Percutaneous simulation is a method of physiotherapy that has a moderate analgesic effect. It is used to relieve all kinds of pain syndromes (back pain, headache, menstrual pain, etc.).

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