For patients who need treatment at home, empowering care teams to support mental health, improve sleep, and provide drug-free pain relief is essential to driving better long-term outcomes and overall wellness.
With safe, non-invasive neuromodulation therapies for anxiety, insomnia, and pain, your team can deliver high-quality care where it’s needed most—positioning your program at the forefront of personalized, patient-centered healthcare.
Improving Health Outcomes with Alpha-Stim
- Using CES: Alpha-Stim CES is a form of non-invasive brain stimulation that applies a patented, low-amplitude waveform to the brain via earclip electrodes. Research suggests that Alpha-Stim CES modulates large-scale brain network activity patterns to normalize the pathological signaling in the default mode network observed in psychiatric disorders, providing rapid, effective, and lasting symptom relief without the side effects of medication.
- Using MET: Microcurrent is delivered via electrodes (AS-Trode™ self-adhesive electrodes or Smart Probes) placed on the body at the pain site for the treatment of acute, chronic, and post-traumatic pain.
Delivering Mental Health Care With Every Visit
Unmanaged anxiety and insomnia can significantly hurt health outcomes. When left untreated, anxiety can lead to high blood pressure, a weakened immune system, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, muscle tension, and worsen existing heart issues.1
Meanwhile, insomnia has been found to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity, as well as reduce cognitive function, weaken the immune system, and increase the risk of accidents.2,3
For patients with acute medical conditions, not addressing anxiety and insomnia is especially problematic – and costly.
Alpha-Stim Can Help Address Anxiety & Insomnia
Alpha-Stim offers a unique solution for Hospital-at-Home patients struggling with anxiety or insomnia. Because this medical device is simple, safe, and easy to use, it’s something that can be integrated as part of an existing visit routine, for patients to use alone at home, or both.
Alpha-Stim therapy sessions last 20 to 60 minutes, and patients simply need to put earclips on their earlobes to get started. This means Alpha-Stim can be used while you’re delivering other care services, providing added benefits to the patient and positively contributing to improved health outcomes.
Moreover, Alpha-Stim can be used as often as needed, so for patients who may need more ongoing support, this is an ideal choice.
Clinically Validated to Treat Anxiety & Insomnia
Overall Decrease in Anxiety
In clinical trials, patients reported an average of 61% less anxiety immediately after using the CES therapy. After 5 weeks, that average was 94%.4
Greater Relief
In clinical studies, patients using Alpha-Stim reported greater relief from anxiety than patients taking drugs, all without side effects.
Increased Sleep Time
After only 5 Alpha-Stim insomnia treatments, military service members with insomnia reported an increase of 43 minutes of sleep.5
Improved Sleep Quality
The number of subjects rating their quality of sleep as poor dropped from 60% to 5%.6
Acute and Chronic Pain Relief Without the Risk of Addiction
Pain relief and pain management can be challenging to address at home, especially with the risks posed by opioid and NSAID medications. Between complications from mixing medications, to addiction and other side effects, medicine-based pain management protocols for hospital-at-home patients can be high-risk.
The ability of Alpha-Stim M to offer a drug-free option for pain relief for acute, chronic, and post-traumatic pain is one of the leading reasons physicians recommend this non-drug option to patients. This is especially true for patients with existing chronic conditions whose medication regimen is already complex.
Another reason is that Alpha-Stim provides cumulative results, leading to longer-term pain relief. And for patients who may still need some sort of pain medication, Alpha-Stim can be used in conjunction with them, but without the risk of polypharmacy.
A Safer Option for Pain Relief
Severe Pain Reduction
Also Treats Anxiety
Alpha-Stim AID is also designed to treat anxiety, providing patients with simultaneous anxiety and insomnia relief.
Better Than Drug-Treatments
Alpha-Stim Fits Easily Within Hospital-at-Home Programs
Try Alpha-Stim today. Talk to one of our reps to get started.
Alpha-Stim is an easy option for hospital-at-home programs to integrate as part of a patient’s routine visit. Programs can also consider purchasing devices for patients to rent out for use at home, or patients can purchase their own as well.
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Real-World Testimonial: Using Alpha-Stim
For Dr. Willa Arnett, DNP, ANP-BC, Alpha-Stim is something she uses personally, with her patients, and as part of the PACE program she works with. In the video below, she shares her own experience and that of a favorite patient she sees in the community.
Sources:
- 1 https://www.ama-assn.org/public-health/behavioral-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-managing-anxiety-disorders
- 2 https://sleepeducation.org/insomnia-increases-death-risk-accidental-injuries/
- 3 https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/ss/slideshow-chronic-insomnia-health-impacts
- 4 Barclay TH, Barclay RD. A clinical Trial of cranial electrotherapy stimulation for anxiety and comorbid depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2014;164:171-177. Presented at the American Psychological Association National Conference, Honolulu, July 2013.
- 5 Lande RG, Gragnani C. Efficacy of Cranial Electric Stimulation for the treatment of insomnia: A randomized pilot study. Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 2013; 21(1):8-13.
- 6 Lichtbroun AS, Raicer MMC, Smith RB. The treatment of fibromyalgia with Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 2001; 7(2):72-78.
- 7 Holubec, Jerry T. Cumulative response from cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) for chronic pain. Practical Pain Management. 2009; 9(9):80-83.
- 8 Taylor AG, Anderson JG, Riedel SL, et al. Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation improves symptoms and functional status in individuals with fibromyalgia. Pain Management Nursing. 2013 Dec; 14(4):327-335.