Stimulating the vagus nerve through the ear improved knee pain for some patients, a new trial found. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News "It's easier to put your elbow in your ear" is a time-tested ...

Pain behind the ear could be related to the ear itself or nearby structures that share a nerve supply with it. Several possible causes of pain behind the ear, including jaw inflammation, a dental ...

Kosaku Aoyagi, PT, Ph.D. (right), an assistant professor of physical therapy and movement sciences in the College of Health Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, and his team are exploring ...

"OCT lets us look down the ear canal, through the eardrum and bone into the cochlea, and measure how it's working—noninvasively and without pain," said John Oghalai, MD, professor and chair of ...

Sometimes, earache and headache occur together. A few conditions can cause this, such as middle ear infections and migraine. The treatment for ear pain with headache depends on what’s causing it. Ear ...

The vagus nerve is called the "wandering nerve" because it's the longest nerve in the human body and travels from the base of the brain up into the ears and down into the lower intestines. In recent ...

Roughly 10% of women and girls of reproductive age are affected by endometriosis, according to the World Health Organization. Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists are lending an “ear tickler” to women ...

Cannabis-based medicines have been widely promoted as a potential answer for people living with chronic nerve pain—but a major new review finds the evidence just isn’t there yet. After analyzing more ...

"It's easier to put your elbow in your ear" is a time-tested way to describe the impossibility of any given task. But the route to easing knee pain might indeed wend through the ear, a new study says.

The vagus nerve is called the "wandering nerve" because it's the longest nerve in the human body and travels from the base of the brain up into the ears and down into the lower intestines. In recent ...