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Acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 1984
The study of folk medicine by anthropologists and medical historians has revealed an astonishing array of ingenious methods to relieve pain (Brockbank, 1954). Every culture, it appears, has learned to fight pain with pain: in general, brief, moderate pain tends to abolish severe, prolonged pain.
R, Melzack, P D, Wall
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Tibial nerve stimulation compared with sham to reduce incontinence in care home residents: ELECTRIC RCT

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: Urinary incontinence is prevalent in nursing and residential care homes, and has a profound impact on residents’ dignity and quality of life. Treatment options are limited in these care contexts and care homes predominantly use absorbent pads
Joanne Booth   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

open access: yesContinuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain, 2009
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a non-invasive analgesic technique that is used to relieve nociceptive, neuropathic, and musculoskeletal pain. During TENS, pulsed electrical currents are generated by a portable pulse generator and delivered across the intact surface of the skin via the selfadhering conducting pads called ...
Iain Jones, Mark I. Johnson
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Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation of the Abdomen, Ear, and Tibial Nerve Modulates Bladder Contraction in a Rat Detrusor Overactivity Model: A Pilot Study [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Neurourology Journal, 2023
Purpose The global prevalence of overactive bladder (OAB) is estimated at 11.8%. Despite existing treatment options such as sacral neuromodulation, a substantial number of patients remain untreated. One potential alternative is noninvasive transcutaneous
Rosa L. Coolen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the noradrenergic pathway and alpha-2 and beta-receptors in the modulation of the analgesia induced by transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation of high and low frequencies

open access: yesFisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2014
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation is a noninvasive method used in clinical Physiotherapy to control acute or chronic pain. Different theories have been proposed to explain the mechanism of the analgesic action of transcutaneous electric nerve ...
Thiago Henrique Ferreira Vasconcellos   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for cancer pain in adults. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background Cancer-related pain is complex and multi-dimensional but the mainstay of cancer pain management has predominately used a biomedical approach. There is a need for non-pharmacological and innovative approaches.
Bennett, Michael I.   +4 more
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COMBINATION OF TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION (TENS) AND OCCIPITAL NERVE BLOCK IN REFRACTORY CLUSTER HEADACHE

open access: yesSanamed, 2019
Cluster headache (CH) can be extremely resistant to medical treatment. There are no prognostic signs that can previously determent persistence and resistance to medical treatment.
Hakan Silek
doaj   +1 more source

Neuromodulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Neuromodulation is a new promising treatment for headache disorders. It consists of peripheral nerve neurostimulation and central neurostimulation. © 2016, Touch Briefings.
Silberstein, Stephen
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Electrical stimulation with non-implanted devices for stress urinary incontinence in women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The authors would like to thank Luke Vale, Imran Omar, Sheila Wallace and Suzanne MacDonald at the Cochrane Incontinence Group for their support. We would also like to thank Mette Frahm Olsen, Gavin Stewart, Miriam Brazelli, Anna Sierawska, and Beatriz ...
Berghmans, Bary   +3 more
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