Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic pain - an overview of Cochrane Reviews.

CONCLUSIONS: We found the methodological quality of the reviews was good, but quality of the evidence within them was very low. We were therefore unable to conclude with any confidence that, in people with chronic pain, TENS is harmful, or beneficial for pain control, disability, health-related quality of life, use of pain relieving medicines, or global impression of change. We make recommendations with respect to future TENS study designs which may meaningfully reduce the uncertainty relating to the effectiveness of this treatment in people with chronic pain.
PMID: 30941745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - April 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gibson W, Wand BM, Meads C, Catley MJ, O'Connell NE Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research