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JANUARY 25, 2019

Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation May Relieve Chronic Back Pain

Noninvasive transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) successfully modulated brain activity and significantly reduced chronic low back pain in all participants in a small clinical trial, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill (The Journal on Pain 2018 [In Press]).

Jeremy Adler, MS, PA-C, the co-owner and chief operating officer of Pacific Pain Medicine, who was not involved in the study, said although using electricity to manage pain is not