Oak Brook Surgical Center Physician Dr. Eugene Lipov Develops Treatment for PTSD
Eugene Lipov, MD, a physician at Oak Brook (Ill.) Surgical Center, has developed a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a My FOX Chicago report.
Dr. Lipov believes injecting the anesthetic Bupivacaine into a bundle of nerves in a patient's neck could block pain signals from reaching the brain. When he performs the shot, the new nerve growth goes away, a process he compares to "rebooting the brain before the problem."
He has used the treatment on 30 veterans so far, with promising results, according to the report. The procedure takes 10 minutes and uses an x-ray to guide the needle.
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