Evoked Pain Analgesia in Chronic Pelvic Pain Patients Using Respiratory-Gated Auricular Vagal Afferent Nerve Stimulation

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 777-789

  Napadow, Vitaly ^a,b   Edwards, Robert R ^b   Cahalan, Christine M ^b   Mensing, George ^b   Greenbaum, Seth ^b   Valovska, Assia ^b   Li, Ang ^a   Kim, Jieun ^a   Maeda, Yumi ^a   Park, Kyungmo ^c   Wasan, Ajay D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chronic pain; TENS; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANTINOCICEPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE STIMULATION; NONVAGUS AURICULAR STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY GATED AURICULAR VAGUS AFFERENT NERVE STIMULATION; SENSORY NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84862548275     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2012.01385.x     Document Type: Article

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