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Public release date: 12 September 2009
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Electrical nerve stimulation may relieve neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury
Neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury is usually managed with drugs such as antidepressants or anticonvulsants,
but very often it difficult to relieve. A recent study has revealed that electrical nerve stimulation can effectively
reduce neuropathic pain after a spinal cord injury.
In this new study, the research tead assessed the short-term effects of high- and low-frequency transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.
All participants were instructed to treat themselves three times daily for two weeks. After a two-weeks, patients
switched stimulation frequencies and repeated the procedure. Researchers found that 29 percent of patients reported
a favourable effect from high-frequency TENS and 38 percent from low-frequency stimulation. Twenty-five percent of
the patients were, at their request, prescribed TENS stimulators for further nerve treatment at the end of the study.
The study, published in the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, suggests that existing studies have
shown that TENS may be an effective complement to the pharmacological approach to neuropathic pain management in patients with SCI.
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