Here’s how a bio implant stopped the Long Island Woman’s ‘terrible’ attrite in its footsteps: ‘This is the future’

A Long Island’s speech pathologist said a bio pioneer implant stopped her “terrible” rheumatoid arthritis in his tracks.

Dawn Steiner Massapequa, 58, said that even a simple handshake would mean agony – and after 15 years she withdrew in an attractive lifestyle.

“My husband had to help me dress,” she told the post.

“I can’t wash your hair. I could barely shower myself.”

But its new best bio-implant has miraculously adjusted with minimal invasiveness and only a minute of daily stimulation. It is connected to the vagus nerve of the steiner, an essential connector between the brain, major organs and other body functions.

“We discovered a reflex that slows inflammation by sending signals to the immune system through the vagus nerve,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, President and CEO of the Northwell Institute for Medical Research in Long Island.

“The vagus nerve carries signals that turn off inflammation … it’s like push your car’s brakes.”

The company he co-founded, Setpoint Medical, designed the smaller “bio-implant” than a quarter “sitting” at the top of the vagus nerve at the front of the steiner neck with hardly a scar to show.

“My pain was in a seven or eight out of ten, now it is in one,” Steiner told the life -changing device that uses the technique and has been working for about a year.

“I really believe this is the future.”

Touching a nerve

The still -approved access by the FDA began in a 2023 medical trial of 242 Americans to which Steiner was open because she believed she was out of other options.

“We’re big fans of Mets and there were seasons I couldn’t go to a single game,” she said.

“I would go home from work and go to bed right away. All weekends passed to bed, or bed sleeping.”

Before the implant, doctors started steiner in Metotrexate, “which is a low -dose chemistry,” she said.

This led to the exam of eight different biological drugs that would take hours to inject – plus “side effects can be cancer and death,” Steiner said.

She experienced her entire face and other parts of her body go to the point that medical professionals tested her for multiple sclerosis.

“They would tell me that it takes up to six months for her to start,” she said.

“All over that time you are in terrible pain and the extinguisher took several more months.”

Last year, after being involved in court, Steiner arrived at a fracture point and decided to perform the operation that lasted only one hour by Dr. Northwell’s Ashash Mehta.

“Unknowns were nothing more worrying than medicines where I was already.”

‘Pioneer progress’

Tracey explained that the high -tech device operates with an antenna related to a physician’s tablet for two -week readings and modifications. The implant itself must be changed every ten years.

“This will be a very significant progress, a pioneer progress, as a new way of giving therapy to people who need seriously,” said Tracey, who just published a book on the vagus nerve entitled “The Great Nerve”.

Steiner said she only feels a random buzz like a cellphone from the device during her daily activity – she has the right time for 5am as a biological alarm hour – and she hardly knows she is there different.

Agenda charged through a group that is lighter than a soap bar, which Steiner wears for just 30 minutes a week.

“I have it around my neck on Sunday morning while I’m doing the dishes and other housework,” she said.

Now, Steiner has returned to Citi Field rooting in her mets, going to see her favorite band, Foo Fighters and going for walks on the beaches of the island.

Looking at its early success, Tracey is optimistic that FDA will move quickly in green light implant for wider use.

“It can be just summer,” he said.