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If the healthcare industry can overcome several long-term challenges to bioelectronic medicine, more will know the term. This rapidly growing field uses targeted electrical signals to diagnose and treat a range of diseases, from arrythmias to treatment-resistant epilepsy and chronic pain. Bioelectronic medicine encompasses not just a narrow category of medical devices, but an entire approach to detecting and treating disease – using electrical pulses and the body’s natural mechanisms as an adjunct or alternative to drugs and medical procedures.
It’s a diverse category, including subfields such as cardiac rhythm management (CRM), electrophysiology, spinal cord stimulation, and vagus nerve stimulation.
Editor's note: Read some updates on bioelectronic medicine from Sky Medical Technology, a British medtech company that has created the first NICE-approved, bioelectronic muscle pump activator of its kind indicated for use in the U.S.