Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)
Neuro-auricular Modulation Training: Options for nursing and mental health professionals
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 ...
Current Directions in the Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation I – A Physiological Perspective
Vagus nerve stimulation, and specifically auricular vagus nerve stimulation aVNS, are showing importance in modulation of brain function, reflex loops, and brain chemistry (as seen in treatment of epilepsy, stroke, depression and other disorders)...
Neuromodulation of nociceptive processing (as seen in experimental and clinical evidence of pain treatment/managent)
Modulation of autonomic function
Modulation of metabolic syndrome
Modulation of cardiovascular and cardioprotective effects
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