Electrical Stimulation Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: TENS Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Empi TENS, Spinal Nerve Stimulator (Show all)
Generic Name: Electrical Stimulation
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 | 33 |
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3 | |||
| Other | 6 |
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3 | ||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| Numbness, tingling, pins & needles (paresthesia) | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Mobility | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Support another treatment | 2 |
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1 |
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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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- spn2cats
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
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- spn2cats
- daily
- since Dec 01, 2007
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Efficacy
Major
for Support another treatment
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Side Effects
None
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- StandUpLong
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- StandUpLong
- as needed
- since Jan 23, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for General health
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips it's one of my favorites . just can never remember to charge the batteries . when I need to use it I have to wait for charged batteries . See full evaluation
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Report created on November 20, 2009.