Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)

Can you change your state of wellbeing through positive thinking? Sure. But, positive thinking alone cannot overcome a negative autonomic state. In other words, you cannot simply think yourself into a better state, you need to feel it — even unconsciously — from signals deep within your brainstem. Individuals who are in a dysfunctional state of fight-or-flight, or shutdown — no matter their rational understanding of their own safety — have a very difficult time moving towards healing.[1-4] So...

Financial support for the Neuro-auricular training Oct 28-30 Imagine the opportunity to attend a 3-day training valued at $1057 for only $190, while also receiving 9 CEUs. The Chicago College of Oriental Medicine (CCOOM.org) would like to offer you this opportunity! For the first time in CCOM history, students and faculty have the chance at scholarship awards totaling $9400 from the Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine (CIAM). To achieve the award, CCOM must present a concerted commitment...

Pain can be challenging to treat, it is often a highly multivariate problem involving several stages of neural processing in multiple areas of involvement;[1] it inextricably involves both psychological and physiological aspects of being;[2] and, the feeling of pain is subjective, with high variability between individuals.[3,4] For Pain Management Programs (PMPs), the auricular microsystem can help clinicians quickly access specific relevant neural pathways to regulate processing. In fact, l...

Portal to the wandering nerve: Did you know that you can directly access neural pathways of the body via reflex zones on the outer ear to help clients/patients move toward healing with greater ease? Neuroscientists are using the microsystem of the outer ear to transcutaneously access the major nerve branches of the body, and research into neuro-auricular modulation has grown in depth and breadth in the past two decades.[1-8] More specifically, the therapeutic use of transcutaneous auricular v...

Emergency Response and the Auricular Link to Neuropsychiatry and Complex Trauma Treatment: Emergency physicians, with even just brief training in auricular protocols, are able to use neuro-auricular modulation for acute pain treatment in cases where opioid analgesia was not otherwise an acceptable option. The National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization recognize these auricular approaches — often applied via acupuncture, yet also able to be applied via laser (photobiomodul...

Beyond NADA Protocol/AcuDetox The challenge for nursing and mental health practitioners interested in the 5-point AcuDetox protocol often relates to the use of needles (which is regulated by many states and often limited to application by physicians or acupuncturists). Neuro-auricular modulation goes beyond acupuncture using tools within various scopes of practice. For example with a clinical-grade point-finder, a medical low-grade therapeutic laser, or through manual stimulation using ...

Rapid growth in Neuro-auricular Modulation: The recent FDA clearance of a wearable transcutaneous auricular nerve field stimulator (tAN) as developed by Spark Biomedical in Dallas, Texas, and featured in Practical Neurology, is one example of the investment by Pharma and Tech based on the increasing interest in neuro-auricular modulation research. The device, and similar devices like it, stimulate nerves on and around the ear. The microsystem of the ear has been used for millennia in the fiel...