Zapping Your Brain at Home to Cure Fatigue
How a low dose of electrical current is helping some patients overcome tiredness and cognition problems
Laura Bennett, a 59-year-old pediatrician in Long Island, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, but her symptoms consisted mostly of numbness and tingling until about six years ago. That’s when she started to have trouble walking. She went from using a cane, to a walker, to a scooter. Her knee became so stiff that flexing it was “like trying to bend a lead pipe,” she said. These days, she can only leave her home with help or in a wheelchair.
The MS also left her with debilitating fatigue.
