A randomized trial to determine the duration of analgesia following a 15- and a 30-minute application of acupuncture-like TENS on patients with chronic low back pain.

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that clinicians could use a 15-minute AL-TENS application to provide significant analgesia in patients presenting with low back pain since if provides a comparable analgesia versus a 30-minute application. PMID: 28379056 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379056?dopt=Abstract

Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - April 5, 2017 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Tousignant-Laflamme Y, Laroche C, Beaulieu C, Bouchard AJ, Boucher S, Michaud-Létourneau M Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research