Effects of percutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in chronic widespread myofascial low back and cervical pain syndrome

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•Patients in age 25 to 50 years
•Body mass index less than 30 kg/m2
•Having the criteria of lumbar and neck myofascial syndromes based on the criteria provided by Travell and Simon in the muscles of the back and neck
•the patient have pain for at least 3 months.
•The presence of at least 3 trigger points in the muscles of the back and neck, where one of these two areas involves the muscles bilaterally (by using an algometer, as well as by touch)
•Intensity of pain of at least 3 out of 10 on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
•Patients whose Wide Spread Pain Index (WPI) is equal to or greater than 7

•Neurological diseases
•Metabolic and endocrine diseases
•Systemic diseases such as lupus, scleroderma
•Infectious diseases
•Inflammatory diseases
•Thyroid diseases
•History of malignancy
•Use of painkillers in the last 24 hours
•Long-term use of corticosteroids
•Drug addiction
•Cognitive and psychotic diseases
•Cardiovascular diseases
•Taking drugs that affect the autonomic system, such as cholinergic and anticholinergic drugs, alpha and beta blockers, antipsychotics

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niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences