Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation [TENS] for Muscle Pain
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
TENS is a method of electrical stimulation which primarily aims to provide a degree of symptomatic pain relief by exciting sensory nerves and thereby stimulating either the pain gate mechanism and/or the opioid system. The different methods of applying TENS relate to these different physiological mechanisms. The effectiveness of TENS varies with the clinical pain being treated, but research wou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1058-2452,1540-7012
DOI: 10.1300/j094v13n02_01