| Autor: |
Safdar, Fakhrah, Sangrasi, Siknader Ali, Waseem, Muhammad Hassan, Shaikh, Asif Gulzar |
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Professional Medical Journal; 2017, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p818-823, 6p |
| Abstrakt: |
Background: TENS is widely used for the relief from pain this procedure was first observed by Luigi Galvani in 1970. Low back pain is the commonest problem for the majority of the population; most of the people have non-specific and mechanical lower back pain so the physiotherapist can easily treat the low back pain by applying the Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation because it works through pain gate theory and opioids mediated theory. Objectives: The aims and objectives of this study are to show the effectiveness and the efficacy of TENS among the physiotherapist for the management of pain along with manual therapy techniques. Design of study: A retrospective study was conducted. Study Design: Retrospective study. Setting: OPD of IPRS LUMHS, Jamshoro. Period: Six (06) months from July to December 2015. Methods and Materials: The sample was randomly selected with 75 patients of nonspecific chronic low back pain. Database: APTA, Pub Med, Google scholar. Results: The Results present the effectiveness of TENS by showing the significance p-value i-e 0.00 of pain intensities before and after treatment intervention. Conclusion: This study was done to look for the effectiveness of TENS with or without standard physiotherapy treatment the results of this study show the effectiveness of TENS for the alleviating of pain but still there is room for research on this topic to find out the efficacy of the treatment in much more depth and details. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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