A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation by austinjp on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:49PM (#34167628)

Oh boy. No. Slowing your breathing is not going to protect against the effects of electrically stimulating the vagus nerve. Whether or not the TENS approach to vagus nerve simulation is effective or not, please don't believe this will somehow help.

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Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation by abnry on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:52PM (#34167655)

I think the advice was to forgo TENS in favor of breathing, not to mitigate adverse effects of TENS with breathing.

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Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation by voisin on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:24PM (#34169089)

This is correct. Apologies for the ambiguity in my comment.

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Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation by austinjp on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:55AM (#34171105)

Ah!! Then you have my apologies for my misinterpretation too :)

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Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation by austinjp on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:57AM (#34171112)

Thanks for clarifying, it seems I did misunderstand. Too late to edit unfortunately.

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