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| Title |
Case Report of Improvement in Long-COVID Symptoms in an Air Force Medic Treated With Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Using Electro-Magnetic Brain Pulse Technique
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| Published in |
Military Medicine, June 2023
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| DOI | 10.1093/milmed/usad182 |
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| Authors |
Joe X Zhang, Jianzhong J Zhang |
| Abstract |
Long-coronavirus disease (COVID) is an ill-defined set of symptoms persisting in patients following infection with COVID-19 that range from any combination of persistent breathing difficulties to anosmia, impaired attention, memory, fatigue, or pain. Recently, noninvasive transcutaneous electrical brain stimulation techniques have been showing early signs of success in addressing some of these complaints. We postulate that the use of a stimulation technique with transcranial magnetic stimulation may also similarly be effective. A 36-year-old male suffering from symptoms of dyspnea, anosmia, and "brain fog" for 2 years following coronavirus infection was treated with 10 sessions of Electro-Magnetic Brain Pulse (EMBP®), a personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol guided by the patient's electroencephalograph (EEG). At the conclusion of the treatment, the patient had improvements in mood, sense of smell, and brain fogging. Dyspnea also decreased with a gain of 11% forced expiratory volume 1/forced vital capacity. A high-sensitivity athletic training cognitive test showed an overall 27% increase in aggregate score. A significant portion of this was attributed to changes in visual clarity and decision-making speed. Post-treatment EEG showed a shift from predominantly delta waves to more synchronized alpha wave patterns during the resting state. Brain stimulation techniques appear to be showing early signs of success with long-COVID symptoms. This is the first case describing the use of a magnetic stimulation technique with quantitative test results and recorded EEG changes. Given the early success in this patient with cognition, dyspnea, and anosmia, this noninvasive treatment modality warrants further research. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Spain | 3 | 11% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 23 | 82% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 25 | 89% |
| Scientists | 2 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 10 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Other | 2 | 20% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 50% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Unspecified | 1 | 10% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 60% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 December 2023.
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