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Got Knee Pain? Stimulating the Vagus Nerve Through the Ear May Help

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. ​Physical Therapy pain management
  2. Racial and ethnic difference in chronic pain
  3. Quantitative sensory testing
  4. Multiple aspects of chronic pain experience
  5. knee osteoarthritis
  6. Clinical epidemiology
  7. Biopsychosocial and behavioral factors
  8. vocabulary measurement
  9. vocabulary
  10. stuttering
  11. lexical development
  12. language sample analysis
  13. fluency
  14. expository discourse
  15. developmental language disorders

Featured Researcher(s):

Aoyagi, Kosaku
College: Health Sciences
Department: Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences
Wagovich, Stacy
College: Health Sciences
Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Got Knee Pain? Stimulating the Vagus Nerve Through the Ear May Help
Date: May 22, 2025



EL PASO, Texas (May 22, 2025) – Tying shoelaces, getting into a car, picking things up off the floor and walking down stairs all involve flexing that most difficult of joints: the knee. But pain in the knee can significantly hinder those and many other routine activities.


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