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Brand Names:
Alpha-Stim, Empi TENS, Interferential Stimulator, Ness L300 Functional Electrical Stimulation, TENS Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
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 Taken
65 patients in the community are having or have had Electrical Stimulation.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pain | 26 | 40% |
| Other | 13 | 20% |
| Stiffness/spasticity | 4 | 6% |
| muscle spasms and pain at night | 4 | 6% |
| pain in right side/ pain in lower back and neck and shoulders | 3 | 4% |
| General health | 3 | 4% |
| Support another treatment | 2 | 3% |
| All over pain | 2 | 3% |
| knee pain | 1 | 1% |
| left foot drop | 1 | 1% |
| Numbness, tingling, pins & needles (paresthesia) | 1 | 1% |
| Shoulder pain | 1 | 1% |
| Muscle spasms, neck and shoulders | 1 | 1% |
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 1% |
| Pain, chronic | 1 | 1% |
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 13 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 67% | 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 33% | 2 |
Other
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 8% | 1 |
| Mild | 0% | 0 |
| None | 92% | 12 |
Summary results are based on 13 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 13)
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- dbrister
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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by dbrister
Sep 04, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- Pain
- Advice/Tips
- buy an Empi brand if possible - lifetime warranty invest in rechargable batteries use reusable patches order large quantity of patches when yearly deductible has been met
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0 helpful marks
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- itsnotmummy
- Sex: F
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: Most
- Function: None
- External_stress: Some
- Stickman: All
- Description:F 49yrs
- Diagnosis:Definitive Dx
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by itsnotmummy
Dec 07, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Other
- Advice/Tips
- awsome must have
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0 helpful marks