ArticleJournal of physical therapy science2015
Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on pain in patients with spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.
Article in Journal of physical therapy science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03905681 (The Use of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on the Efficacy of Acute Back Pain Within an Emergency Department Triage), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Use of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on the Efficacy of Acute Back Pain Within an Emergency Department Triage: A Randomized Trial
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- An Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guideline for the physiotherapy management of people with spinal cord injuries.Spinal cord · 2025Guideline
- Neuropathic Pain Relief Through Transcutaneous Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation: Insights From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Evidence.BioMed research international · 2025Pooled it
- Emerging Therapeutic Modalities and Pharmacotherapies in Neuropathic Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Parallel Randomized Controlled Trials.Pain research & management · 2024Pooled it
- Characterising the Features of 381 Clinical Studies Evaluating Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Pain Relief: A Secondary Analysis of the Meta-TENS Study to Improve Future Research.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in people with pain after spinal cord injury: a meta-analysis.Spinal cord · 2022Pooled it
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for neuropathic pain in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- The effectiveness of 22 commonly administered physiotherapy interventions for people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Spinal cord · 2016Pooled it
- Comparative Efficacy of Invasive and Non-Invasive Neuromodulation Techniques for Chronic Central and Peripheral Neuropathic Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Evaluation of the Relationship Between Pain and Functional Status, Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Neuropathic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review of the Interventions for Management of Pain in Patients After Spinal Cord Injury.Cureus · 2023Review
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions for the treatment of spinal cord injury-induced pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Determining the management of pain in people with spinal cord injury by physiotherapists in South Africa.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2022Article
- Acute spinal cord injury: Pathophysiology and pharmacological intervention (Review).Molecular medicine reports · 2021Review
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation in Relieving Neuropathic Pain: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.Current pain and headache reports · 2020Review
- Therapeutic effect of methylprednisolone combined with high frequency electrotherapy on acute spinal cord injury in rats.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
- Pain profiles in a community dwelling population following spinal cord injury: a national survey.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2019Article
- [Pain in patients with paraplegia].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2017Review
- Effect of oscillating electrical field stimulation on motor function recovery and myelin regeneration after spinal cord injury in rats.Journal of physical therapy science · 2016Article
- The antalgic effects of non-invasive physical modalities on central post-stroke pain: a systematic review.Journal of physical therapy science · 2016Article
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Abstract
[Purpose] To investigate the effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on pain in patients with spinal cord injury. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-two spinal cord injury patients with central pain were randomly allocated into two groups TENS and control with 26 subjects per group. The patients in TENS and control groups were treated with TENS and sham TENS for 20 min (three times a week) for 12 consecutive weeks, respectively. The two group's pain was assessed using visual analog scale (VAS) and the McGill Pain Questionnaire (including pain rating index-total, pain rating index-affective, pain rating index-sensory, present pain intensity, and number of words chosen) before and after the treatment. [Results] After the intervention, we found significant differences in VAS, pain rating index-total, pain rating index-affective, pain rating index-sensory, present pain intensity, and number of words chosen between the TENS group and the control group. [Conclusion] Our results suggest that TENS effectively decreases pain in patients with spinal cord injury.
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