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Let's skip the aspirin

Femke Pluijm
Apr 30, 2015
2 min read

Whoever is reading this, can probably relate to the feeling of a headache. We all cope with it sometimes. Some people cope with it a lot. Think of people who suffer from migraine or a chronic headache. Because we can all relate to the feeling, we can imagine just how that would feel if you’d have a headache all the time. Quite irritating.

For the chronic headache-suffering people among us, you’ll probably be familiar with the saying of ‘taking an aspirin’. It does not work very well.

What does work is The Sphenopalatine ganglion. Quite a name, isn’t it? This is a nerve bundle that will be placed behind the root of the nose, exactly where the cause of the headache is. The nerve bundle does not bother or does not do anything on itself. It comes with a remote controller. When you feel a headache is coming you put the controller against your cheek, which makes the controller send out a signal to the nerve bundle. This nerve bundle than keeps any pain from getting to the head and will stop the headache immediately. When the nerve bundle is not in use, you can’t feel it and it will not send any signals into the head, which might cause other damages.

The cool thing about this is that there’s no aspirin or any other medical solution is needed and the pain is fight right where the cause is. Also the implant is not leaving any scars and could be removed when you come to the point when the headache isn’t coming back anymore.

For the future this might mean that headaches are not longer known. When you can fight a headache like this, there could be a change that nobody will longer suffer from it and it just disappears in our list of pains.

Do you think that might happen?