{"title":"Zap the Pain, Skip the Pills With Hypersound: Noninvasive Chronic Pain Treatment With a New Spin on Radio Frequency Microwaves.","authors":"Tejas Padliya","doi":"10.1109/MPULS.2025.3554963","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces Hypersound Medical's innovative, noninvasive neuromodulation therapy leveraging advanced radio frequency (RF) microwave technology to manage chronic pain without surgical intervention or pharmaceuticals. Traditional pain management methods, including opioids, carry risks such as addiction and significant side effects, highlighting the urgent need for safer alternatives. Hypersound Medical addresses this by utilizing interferential RF microwaves, termed \"hypersound,\" which stimulate neural activity through nonthermal mechanisms involving electrostriction and piezo-sensitive ion channel activation. This targeted stimulation induces natural analgesic responses within the body, providing effective and precise pain relief. The article explores the technology's scientific principles, discusses its clinical and economic benefits, and positions it within the broader context of noninvasive pain management. Hypersound Medical's solution promises enhanced patient outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and improved accessibility, significantly impacting global health by offering a nonaddictive, accessible pathway to chronic pain relief.</p>","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":"16 2","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Pulse","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MPULS.2025.3554963","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article introduces Hypersound Medical's innovative, noninvasive neuromodulation therapy leveraging advanced radio frequency (RF) microwave technology to manage chronic pain without surgical intervention or pharmaceuticals. Traditional pain management methods, including opioids, carry risks such as addiction and significant side effects, highlighting the urgent need for safer alternatives. Hypersound Medical addresses this by utilizing interferential RF microwaves, termed "hypersound," which stimulate neural activity through nonthermal mechanisms involving electrostriction and piezo-sensitive ion channel activation. This targeted stimulation induces natural analgesic responses within the body, providing effective and precise pain relief. The article explores the technology's scientific principles, discusses its clinical and economic benefits, and positions it within the broader context of noninvasive pain management. Hypersound Medical's solution promises enhanced patient outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and improved accessibility, significantly impacting global health by offering a nonaddictive, accessible pathway to chronic pain relief.
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IEEE Pulse covers both general and technical articles on current technologies and methods used in biomedical and clinical engineering; societal implications of medical technologies; current news items; book reviews; patent descriptions; and correspondence. Special interest departments, students, law, clinical engineering, ethics, new products, society news, historical features and government.