Effect and Safety of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Recovery of Upper Limb Motor Function in Subacute Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Randomized Pilot Study.

Dandong WuJingxi MaLiping ZhangSanrong WangBotao TanGongwei Jia

Published in: Neural plasticity (2020)

This study revealed that taVNS appeared to be beneficial to the recovery of upper limb motor function in subacute ischemia stroke patients without obvious adverse effects. Trial registration. This trial is registered with ChiCTR1800019635 on 20 November 2018 (http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=32961).

Keyphrases

upper limb
phase iii
study protocol
phase ii
clinical trial
open label
randomized controlled trial
lymph node metastasis
squamous cell carcinoma
placebo controlled