Electrical Stimulation Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: TENS Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Empi TENS, Alpha-Stim (Show all)
What is Electrical Stimulation?
Electrical stimulation is a treatment modality utilized by physical therapists that uses an electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract. This contraction helps strengthen injured muscles and promotes healing.
Reasons had & Efficacy
| Reasons had | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Pain | 59 |
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8 | |||
| Other | 19 |
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8 | ||
| muscle spasms and pain at night | 11 |
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2 | |||
| pain in right side/ pain in lower back and neck and shoulders | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Pain, all over (generalized) | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 6 |
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2 |
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Side Effects
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Patient Evaluations
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- dbrister
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- dbrister
- as needed
- since Sep 04, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips buy an Empi brand if possible - lifetime warranty invest in rechargable batteries use reusable patches order large quantity of patches when yearly deducti... See full evaluation
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- itsnotmummy
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Little
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: most
- Description:F50y
- FM:6y Dx
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- itsnotmummy
- 40 min daily
- since Dec 07, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips awsome must have See full evaluation
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- catgirl
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: All
- Stickman: all
- Description:F39y
- FM:14y Dx
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- catgirl
- 1hours as needed
- since Dec 15, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Shoulder pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Have a consult with a PT and have them show the appropriate way to place electrodes and how to use the different settings. Can be confusing at first and than... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 20, 2009.