Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)
The Big Idea in PMPs: A call for Neuro-auricular Pain Abatement
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...
From Emergency Response to Complex Trauma Treatment: Applications of Neuro-Auricular Modulation
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...
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
Modu...
