Our vagus nerve could hold the key to vastly improved treatment of inflammatory illnesses like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn ...

UT Dallas researchers paired rehab with vagus nerve stimulation to help people with spinal cord injuries regain arm and hand ...

When I first picked up the Pulsetto, a vagus nerve stimulator, I was apprehensive about how this dog-collar-looking device could help me sleep. I've tried a fair few sleep-enhancing gadgets from ...

“A few months ago, I saw an internet advertisement for a vagus nerve stimulator: ‘It is ideal for people who work in construction and often experience muscle pain resulting from inflammation.

They may work by raising the level of carbon dioxide in our blood and stimulating the vagus nerve, which helps us breathe, cough, and digest. Breathe deeply or breathe into a paper bag.

During the operation, the surgeon frees the nerve by removing small fragments of disc, bone and ligament. Microdiscectomy is sometimes described as a minimally invasive spine surgery, because it ...

Knee pain, which was assessed on a 0-to-10 numeric rating pain scale during a 20-m walk, was reduced by 1.27 immediately after and by 1.87 at 15 minutes after tVNS compared with baseline.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) regulates the cortical-subcortical network in a “top-down” manner, while transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation ... using a Magventure ...

Though stimulating the vagus nerve does not always require surgery or devices, sometimes an external push can be helpful, like Mumbai-based mental health care startup InnerGize’s eponymous ...

"It's easier to put your elbow in your ear" is a time-tested way to describe the impossibility of any given task. But the route to easing knee pain might indeed wend through the ear, a new study says.

“A few months ago, I saw an internet advertisement for a vagus nerve stimulator that stated, ‘Is ideal for people who work in construction and often experience muscle aches and pain resulting ...