Who can Use Vagus & Auricular Nerve Stimulation?

Vagus and Auricular Nerve Stimulation (VANS) can be used for a wide variety of applications:

Health Promotion, Improvement and Optimization, Down-Regulation of Inflammatory Stress, NeuroProtection against disorders of Aging

Immune Protection, NeuroImmune Axis, Inflammation-Inhibition Balance, Vagal Tone

Recovery, Neuroinflammatory and Neuroimmune Axes 

Performance-Enhancement, Cardiovascular, Vagal, and neuropsychological and HRV (vagal-autonomic) conditioning.

NeuroProgramming for Recovery

Vagus and auricular nerve field stimulation can accelerate other therapies (e.g., physical and psychological) by modulating (or adjusting) the balance of Inflammatory-Inhibitiory activity, and by activating weak, disrupted, disorganized or sleeping neurocircuits and brain networks, shifting the neural environment from inflammation to recovery.

Accelerated DEEP IMPACT Therapy 
Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve induces neuroplasticity by activating multiple brain regions within milliseconds, affecting large populations of neurons in the brain stem, the HPA-Axis stress-control center, and across the cerebral cortex.

Therapists recognize this neural shift from a state of circuit-lockup, disruption or resistance to a pliable neuroplastic moment when the body’s energies shift from struggling (straining) with stress to remodeling, reorganizing and repair.  This is a crucial shift that conventional therapies  only accomplish, if ever, over widely extended timelines.

Conventional therapies can take months and years to induce neuroplasticity, and many times never achieve it.    With VNS, essential neuroplasticity can often be targeted and leveraged from the outset of therapy.

People Affected by Stress
  • - PTSD Trauma Recovery
  • - Inflammatory Stress
  • - Accelerated Recovery
Mental Health Therapists
  • - Adjunctive Mood Therapy
  • - Stress & PTSD Therapies
  • - ADD/ADHD/ASD Therapies
Functional & Rehab Therapists
  • - Physical Therapy Enhancement
  • - Chiropractic Stress Therapy
  • - Neuro-Vestibular Therapiies
Athletes & Sports Therapists
  • - Accelerated Recovery for Sports Injuries
  • - Cardio Conditioning (HRV) & Vagal Tone
  • - Sleep Stress and Stress Recovery
Cognitive & Brain Rehab
  • - Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • - Functional Neuro-Rehab
  • - Adjunctive mTBI and TBI Therap
Addiction Recovery Therapists
  • - Acute Addiction Stress
  • - Chronic Addiction Stress
  • - Relapse Stress Prevention
Military & 1st Responders
  • - Law Enforcement Stress
  • - Firefighter & Paramedic Stress
  • - War Fighter/Military Stress
Holistic Healthcare Professionals
  • - Health & Wellness, Anti-Aging
  • - Oriental Medicine
  • - Massage Therapies
Aging Practitioners
  • - Inflammation Control
  • - Immune Enhancement
  • - Neurodegenerative Disorders
Healthcare Practitioners
  • - Neuro-protection
  • - Immune Enhancement
  • - Stress/Inflammatory Stress Control
Corporate Health & Wellness
  • - On-Demand Stress Therapy
  • - Optimal Performance & Conditioning
  • - NeuroFitness for Focus & Productivity
Students & Learners
  • - Attention & Focus Enhancement
  • - Motivation Enhancement
  • - Accelerated Musician Training
People Affected by Stress
  • - PTSD Trauma Recovery
  • - Inflammatory Stress
  • - Accelerated Recovery
Mental Health Therapists
  • - Adjunctive Mood Therapy
  • - Stress & PTSD Therapies
  • - ADD/ADHD/ASD Therapies
Functional & Rehab Therapists
  • - Physical Therapy Enhancement
  • - Chiropractic Stress Therapy
  • - Neuro-Vestibular Therapiies
Athletes & Sports Therapists
  • - Accelerated Recovery for Sports Injuries
  • - Cardio Conditioning (HRV) & Vagal Tone
  • - Sleep Stress and Stress Recovery
Cognitive & Brain Rehab
  • - Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • - Functional Neuro-Rehab
  • - Adjunctive mTBI and TBI Therap
Addiction Recovery Therapists
  • - Acute Addiction Stress
  • - Chronic Addiction Stress
  • - Relapse Stress Prevention
Military & 1st Responders
  • - Law Enforcement Stress
  • - Firefighter & Paramedic Stress
  • - War Fighter/Military Stress
Holistic Healthcare Professionals
  • - Health & Wellness, Anti-Aging
  • - Oriental Medicine
  • - Massage Therapies
Aging Practitioners
  • - Inflammation Control
  • - Immune Enhancement
  • - Neurodegenerative Disorders
Healthcare Practitioners
  • - Neuro-protection
  • - Immune Enhancement
  • - Stress/Inflammatory Stress Control
Corporate Health & Wellness
  • - On-Demand Stress Therapy
  • - Optimal Performance & Conditioning
  • - NeuroFitness for Focus & Productivity
Students & Learners
  • - Attention & Focus Enhancement
  • - Motivation Enhancement
  • - Accelerated Musician Training

For many therapists, COOLSTIM’s Vagus & Auricular Nerve Field Stimulation systems provide an essential suite of clinical tools for curbing inflammatory stress and immune disregulation that prolong and exaccerbate illness and injury, and complicate recovery, and for reactivating and re-organizing disrupted and disorganized neurocircuits hijacked by stress, trauma and addiction.

COOLSTIM Auricular Stimulation   Ω   Mind-Body Stimulation Technology

CoolStim's Neurotherapy  Modules

An Entire Auricular NeuroStimulation Clinic

CoolStim’s modular design, with interchangeable electrode heads, gives therapists full flexibility for a broad spectrum of therapeutic applications.

Vagus Nerve    Trigeminal Nerve     L. Occipital Nerve  Great Auricular Nerve

CoolStim's Multi-Therapy Modalites

A Simple Solution for Complex Stress Conditons

Multi-Nerve stimulation extends CoolStim’s capacity to applications with multiple therapy targets: EXAMPLE: Acute and Chonic stress.

Vagus & Trigeminal  L. Occipital & Trigeminal  Vagus & G. Auricular

COOLSTIM Practitioner Affiliate Program: Training, Referral & Support

Ready to bring Energy Therapies to your Practice?

– Join America’s Fight Against the Inflammatory STRESS PANDEMIC
– Learn new tools to improve the lives of your patients & clients
– Accelerate Healing and Expand Your Therapeutic reach & capacity
– Focus on the linkages between Stress, Inflammation & Immune function
– Treat the inflammatory Stress underlying many diseases & disorders
– Teach Stress control & Self-therapies for Inflammatory Stress disorders

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Benefits of Becoming a COOLSTIM Affiliate 

– Our Affiliates provide Superior Root-Cause Health & Therapy Services
– Access to Cont. Medical Education in Neuroscience & NeuroStimulation
– Transition to 360 Degree Holistic (whole-person, mind-body) practice
– Affiliates are Displayed on the COOLSTIM Location Referral Map
– Unique Practice Growth & Expansion Opportunities
– Future-Proof Healthcare Practice with Digitally-Delivered Therapies
– Professional Networking & Marketing Opportunities
– Special Offers & Advance Previews just for Healthcare Practitioners
– Our Affiliates receive Priority Fulfillment, Customer Service & Support

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COOLSTIM Auricular Stimulation   Ω   Mind-Body Stimulation Technology

Conventional TENS versus COOLSTIM's 3D Nerve-Intersecting Electrodes

Conventional TENS-style Electrodes

  • Inefficient: outmoded 1950s era electrode design.
  • Imprecise: Directs Energy flow across the skin surface.
  • Skin-surface energy flow is more likely to irritate or burn skin.
  • Requires higher energy “shotgun” spill-over to reach nerve.
  • Higher risk of skin and tissue burns, and nerve damage.

CoolStim's 3D Point-&-Stimulate Technology

  • Precision, 3-D Nerve-Intersecting Energy Flow to Nerve Targets.
  • Instantaneous, adhesive-free Magnetic Electrode-Ear Coupling.
  • Automatic, Magnetic Electrode Alignment mapped to Target Nerves.
  • Low Burn Risk: Lower Energy Spend to reach Nerve Targets.

Conventional TENS versus COOLSTIM's 3D Nerve-Intersecting Electrodes

Sweet-Spot Stimulation: Yerkes-Dodson Law

Yerkes-Dodson law states that arousal works best when there is not too much of it.  An Optimal level of arousal produces Optimal Performance.  Arousal is produced by Stimulation:  optimal stimulation is found within a narrow band of energy.

FACT: Our bodies are neurologically programmed to receive many forms of stimulation energy (e.g., food, light, sound, taste, touch, etc.) according to Yerkes-Dodson law, which describes the optimal level of Stimulation on an inverted U-curve (illustrated below). 

For example: The right amount of coffee wakes us up and enables us to focus and get our work done.  Too much coffee causes us to become “wired” and stressed out.  The same principle applies to Vagus and Auricular Nerve Stimulation. 

Years before it was verified by clinical research, we applied Yerkes-Dodson law to describe how stimulation arouses and empowers the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) to counter-balance the excess inflammatory activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS).  

Balance=Sweet-Spot=Optimal Stimulation.

Auriculo-Cranial v. TENS Stimulation

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) devices use two side-by-side electrodes (positive and negative), on the same plane (i.e., the same side of the skin), causing electrical energy to flow between electrodes.  To reach a target nerve with TENS requires stronger voltages to produce enough spill-over current to leak through surface resistance (of the stratum corneum) and penetrate layers of dermal-epidermal tissue.
TENS devices can be effective for pain relief, but the stimulation of cranial nerves requires a higher standard due to their direct connection to the brain and nervous system, and hence a greater need for safety.

For the stimulation of cranial nerves, conventional 2-D TENS electrodes are both unsuitable and risky, because 2-D TENS devices require higher energy to reach nerve targets (see above, left).

WARNING: NEVER use TENS devices or TENS electrodes on the Neck, Head or Face.  TENS devices output much stronger electrical current than should ever be used to Stimulate the Vagus or other nerves in the Auricular Nerve Field.  Serious neurological injury and skin burns may result. EXCEPTION: TENS may be placed close together on the back of the neck only.

CAUTION: Neck electrodes may send electricity through the heart.