Point32Health to Pilot Nerivio® Drug-Free Migraine Treatment Device - PR Newswire

Theranica's Evidence-Based Wearable Device volition beryllium Offered to Members Covered Under Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan

, /PRNewswire/ -- Theranica, a prescribed integer therapeutics institution processing precocious digitally-connected neuromodulation devices for migraine and different symptom conditions, announced contiguous it has teamed up with Point32Health, the genitor enactment of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, to behaviour a 12-month aviator aimed astatine treating the organization's commercialized members suffering from episodic and chronic migraine.

"Point32Health recognizes the value of providing its members with precocious effectual solutions to amended their prime of life," said Alon Ironi, CEO of Theranica. "We are dedicated to making Nerivio accessible to radical with migraine who question cost-effective, chemical-free therapies to negociate this debilitating disease. We look guardant to moving with Point32Health and with the healthcare providers participating successful this pilot, and to forging further strategical collaborations to guarantee wide scope entree to this disruptive-technology therapy."

Nerivio is an FDA-cleared, prescribed, smartphone-controlled, drug-free wearable instrumentality for the attraction of episodic and chronic migraine successful radical aged 12 and older. Uniquely worn connected the precocious limb astatine the onset of a migraine attack, Nerivio alleviates migraine headache and associated symptoms by utilizing distant electrical neuromodulation to trigger an endogenous analgesic mechanism, known arsenic conditioned symptom modulation. The instrumentality tin beryllium utilized arsenic a modular of attraction pharmacological option, arsenic a standalone attraction oregon successful operation with existing treatments.

"Migraine impacts much than 10 percent of the population, causing important discomfort that negatively impacts their prime of life," said Michael Sherman, MD, MBA, MS, enforcement vice president and main aesculapian serviceman astatine Point32Health.  "We are excited to enactment with Theranica to connection Nerivio arsenic a drug-free solution to our members experiencing acute migraines and recurring attacks. This aviator highlights our committedness to offering entree to a wide scope of aesculapian devices and tools that enactment steadfast living."

Eligible Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts wellness plans members successful New England should sermon enrollment to the programme with their neurologists. Participating neurologists volition prescribe Nerivio to eligible Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan members, including Tufts Health Direct members.

"Many of my patients person recovered Nerivio to beryllium highly efficacious for them," said Sait Ashina, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and headache specializer successful Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School successful Boston. "Given the multifaceted complexity of migraine, it's indispensable that patients person entree to a wide scope of therapies, some pharmacological and drug-free. A sizeable information of the patients successful my session are members of Point32Health, and I'm appreciative that they tin present person entree to this important therapy."

About Point32Health
Point32Health is simply a starring wellness and wellbeing organization, delivering an ever-better wellness attraction acquisition to everyone successful our communities. Building connected the quality, nonprofit practice of our founding organizations, Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, we leverage our acquisition and expertise to assistance radical find their mentation of healthier surviving done a wide scope of wellness plans and tools that marque navigating wellness and wellbeing easier.

Our programs instrumentality a 360-degree presumption of wellness for our members—no substance their age, health, race, individuality oregon income. Our Institute works to amended colonisation health—and our Foundation works with communities to support, advocator and beforehand healthier lives for everyone. We usage empathy to recognize what's important to those we serve, ever making their priorities our own. And we enactment to usher and empower radical by bringing unneurotic wide-ranging partners and perspectives to make caller approaches that marque a existent quality for our community, our manufacture and our 2.2 cardinal members crossed New England.

About Theranica
Theranica is simply a prescribed integer therapeutics institution dedicated to creating effective, safe, affordable, low-side effect therapies for idiopathic symptom conditions. The company's award-winning flagship product, Nerivio®, is the archetypal FDA-cleared smartphone-controlled prescribed wearable instrumentality for acute attraction of migraine, precocious surpassed a 4th of a cardinal treatments administered to date. Theranica is expanding its proprietary exertion to make solutions for further idiopathic symptom conditions. Nerivio has received FDA authorization and CE people for usage successful acute attraction of episodic and chronic migraine successful big and teen patients.

Learn much by visiting our websites, theranica.com, nerivio.com and pursuing america connected LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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