Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Reduces Acute Low Back Pain during Emergency Transport - Concepedia

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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Reduces Acute Low Back Pain during Emergency Transport

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2005

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Alexander Bertalanffy

Academic Emergency Medicine

Abstract

TENS was found to be effective and rapid in reducing pain during emergency transport of patients with acute low back pain and should be considered due to its ease of use and lack of side effects in the study population.

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