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Percutaneous Auricular Nerve Stimulation for Treating Post-COVID Fatigue (PAuSing-pCF)

2026-01-02 neurology Title + abstract only
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Even mild SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to post-COVID syndrome, 70% of such patients have post-COVID fatigue (pCF). Many physiological abnormalities observed in pCF could be explained by reduced vagus nerve activity. The vagus nerve, central to metabolic and inflammatory homeostasis, can be activated non-invasively by transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS). Can taVNS improve symptoms in pCF? Data were collected from a randomized study including 114 individuals with pCF. They c...

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