FAIRFIELD, Conn., April 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Competitive Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex:CTT) announced today that it will hold a conference for the medical community on May 17, 2010, in Boston, Mass. at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., to introduce CTT's Calmare® pain therapy to the medical community. Professor Giuseppe Marineo, MD, DSc., Researcher, Founding President of Delta Research and Development, Tor Vergata University of Rome, is the Italian inventor of the "Scrambler Therapy," the technology used in the Calmare medical device. Prof. Marineo will be honored by CTT at the conference and he will present the scientific basis for this revolutionary pain treatment method. Throughout the day, several physicians will present patient case studies stemming from their use of this innovative technology to treat various types of chronic pain including severe pain from cancer and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), failed back surgery, phantom limb syndrome, as well as pain from shingles and a variety of other maladies. Typically, the patients' pain has been resistant to other treatment methodologies, including powerful narcotic painkillers that have been linked to adverse side effects.
