The US Food and Drug Administration is again proposing a ban on electrical stimulation devices used to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, the agency said in a statement Monday.

E-stim therapy involves using mild electrical impulses to stimulate muscle contractions, which can increase blood flow and promote relaxation, but its effectiveness for RA symptom relief is not ...

Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly – in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers ...

From stroke recovery to advanced prosthetics, functional electrical stimulation (FES) is transforming how we restore movement. By targeting key lower limb muscles, adaptive systems are improving gait, ...

(A) Maze channel design, (B) guiding electric stimulation, (C) punishing electric stimulation, and (D) punishing heat stimulation. The lower-right image is a thermal image of the maze surface. The ...

When Gina Arata was 22, she crashed her car on the way to a wedding shower. Arata spent 14 days in a coma. Then she spent more than 15 years struggling with an inability to maintain focus and remember ...

A painless, non-invasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...

Combining two treatments could be a promising option for people, especially military veterans, whose lives are negatively affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, finds a new study. In a clinical ...