This article is from 2012, but I had never seen it. It seeks to quantify different chemical profiles of rheumatoid arthritis patients according to their Chinese Medicine profiles. Characterization of Rheumatoid Arthritis Subtypes Using Symptom Profiles, Clinical Chemistry and
This is the Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Proof from over a year ago. I thought I had it referenced here, but cannot find. So posting again.
Nice rundown of the basics of HRV and some of the implications in the chiropractic clinic.
I have been using electrical nerve stim on the ear in the clinic and evaluating the stress response to it. This study (napadow ear stim rats and ischemia) from Napadow’s lab looked at what happened to auricular vagal nerve
I have been exploring use of the noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic in the form of an ear electrode in the cymba concha region. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason to use one side versus
Here is another free http://www.sf-36.org/tools/pdf/SF-36v1_Standard_Sample.pdfpatient assessment survey. Again, not sure how well it pertains to my patients, but glad to have it.
Sparrow_Poster SAR 2015
This is a repost, but wanted to have it firmly in the conversation when talking about placebo. There has been very little done on placebo and the autonomic response, which is what I measure, but this study confirms that
This is a very interesting article in that, intermittent vagus nerve stimulation lead to decreased parasympathetic tone. Apparently children with epilepsy can have too much vagal tone and if you decrease it, it leads to better adaptability. Dev Med Child
This is a fascinating article by the developer of the PSTIM device, an auricular vagal stim device. They used auricular stim on a patient with cervical dystonia at night. Her HRV, pain, and muscle tone all improved. Granted it
