Friday, January 25, 2008
One of the readers has asked about the difference between TENS and eToims®. TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and is an effective treatment modality for chronic musculoskeletal pain. Although the indications for use to control neuromuscular pain is similar in both methods, there are major differences between TENS and eToims®.
TENS [...]
January 20, 2008
In a study on patients with chronic low back pain to determine whether anger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity found that if anger was kept in with hostility during an anger recall interview, there was increased electromyographic tension in the lumbar paraspinal muscles but not in the trapezius muscle. [...]
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia) are painful neuropathic disorders that develop after trauma affecting a limb with (I) or without (II) nerve injury. Clinical features are pain, impairment of motor function, swelling and autonomic abnormalities (changes in sweating and blood flow). The International Association for the Study of [...]
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Patients with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, whom I have treated seemed to have special common traits and a literature search showed the following findings:
Generally considered a “precursor” of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia is overwork since such patients have been described in these terms: “overactive, unable to set limits to the demands [...]
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