Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia; Medical School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a non-pharmacological treatment that works by delivering electrical currents via electrodes attached to the skin at the site of pain. It can be an...
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in comparison with placebo, no treatment, and other treatments for primary dysmenorrhoea (PD)....
We searched the Gynaecology and Fertility Group's Specialized Register of controlled trials, CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, AMED, CINAHL, and the Korean and Chinese language databases up to 9 Apr...
We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that included women (aged 12 to 49 years) with PD. Included trials compared low-frequency TENS or high-frequency TENS with other TENS, placebo, or other...
Four review authors screened the trials, extracted the data according to the protocol, assessed the risk of bias using RoB 2, and assessed the certainty of evidence for all review comparisons and prim...
This review replaces the current review, published in 2009. We included 20 RCTs involving 585 randomized women with high-frequency TENS, low-frequency TENS, placebo or no treatment, or other treatment...
High-frequency TENS and low-frequency TENS may reduce pain compared with placebo or no treatment. We downgraded the certainty of the evidence because of the risk of bias. Future RCTs should focus more...
Phantom limb pain is characterized by painful sensations in the amputated limb. The clinical presentation of acute phantom limb pain may differ from that of patients with chronic phantom limb pain. Th...
A 36-year-old African male with acute phantom limb pain in the left lower limb, was treated with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation....
The assessment results of the presented case and the evidence on acute phantom limb pain mechanisms contribute to the current body of literature, indicating that acute phantom limb pain presents diffe...
YouTube plays an influential role in disseminating health-related information in the digital age. This study aimed to evaluate YouTube videos on transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in t...
In this descriptive study, we ranked the first 100 videos that met the inclusion criteria using the search term "transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation" on October 30, 2022. These videos were cla...
Based on the GQS results, we found that 59, 27, and 14 videos had low, intermediate, and high quality, respectively. In addition, based on the JAMA results, 79 and 21 videos had poor and high reliabil...
According to our study results, most YouTube videos on TENS were of low quality and reliability. Additionally, most videos were uploaded from sources created by doctors; the most frequently found cont...
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a non-invasive modality that utilizes electrical currents to modulate pain in populations with acute and chronic pain. TENS has been demonstrated ...
The study will be a simple crossover design conducted at the University of Hartford. Subjects will be recruited from the University of Hartford population via oral communication, digital flyers, and p...
This study will provide evidence concerning the combined effects of TENS and TaVNS on pain threshold in pain-free participants. Based on the outcomes, a greater understanding of how TENS and TaVNS, wh...
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06361381. Registered on 09 April 2024....
To assess the efficacy of vaginal electrical stimulation (VS) versus transcutaneous tibial nerve electrical stimulation (TTNS) in women with overactive bladder syndrome (OAB)....
Sixty-nine patients were randomized to receive 12 sessions of VS versus TTNS, or no treatment (control group-CG), over 6 weeks. OAB impact according to international consultation on incontinence quest...
Both TTNS (mean difference = -4.2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = -6.5 to -1.9) and VS (-3.8; -6.0 to -1.6) were associated with significant reduction of ICIQ-OAB scores, as well as discomfort sensati...
Short-term interventions (6 weeks) of TTNS and VS were both effective in treating women with OAB. TTNS provided residual effects at one-month postintervention on ICIQ-OAB score....
Developing effective supplements and rehabilitation of the impaired tactile and proprioception sensation is a significant challenge. One potential method for improving these sensations in clinical pra...
This prospective study investigated the preventive effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for postoperative thirst....
This experimental study was conducted with the CONSORT checklist....
A total of 105 surgical patients who received general anesthesia were recruited from a medical center. Each patient was randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 53; 20 min of TENS) or the cont...
The two groups showed similar characteristics at baseline. The oral moisture wetness was significantly higher in the experimental group than the control group at each post-surgery assessment time (all...
This study demonstrated that TENS can reduce thirst reported by patients after general anesthesia. Thus, this method may have clinical applications for managing postoperative thirst....
To compare brain responses to peroneal electrical transcutaneous neuromodulation (peroneal eTNM®) and transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS), two methods for treating overactive bladder (OAB),...
This study included 32 healthy adult female volunteers (average age 38.3 years (range 22-73)). Brain MRI using 3 T scanner was performed during three 8-min blocks of alternating sequences. During each...
During peroneal eTNM®, TTNS, and sham stimulations, we recorded activation in the brainstem, bilateral posterior insula, bilateral precentral gyrus, bilateral postcentral gyrus, left transverse tempor...
Peroneal eTNM®, but not TTNS, induces the activation of brain structures that were previously implicated in neural control of the of bladder filling and play an important role in the ability to cope w...
We investigated sex differences in blood pressure (BP) response to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) during orthostatic stress (ORT)....
Seventeen healthy young adults (males = 9; females = 8) underwent TENS or SHAM stimulus applied in the cervicothoracic region for 30 min in the supine position followed by 10 min in the orthostatic po...
Orthostatic challenge decreased BP similarly for both sexes during ORT, a deeper drop in CO and a slight increase in heart rate were found in women compared with men ( P = 0.03 and 0.05, respectively)...
This finding suggests a possible modulatory effect by one cervicothoracic TENS session on sympathetic tonus in healthy men....
To evaluate whether transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) reduces opioid use after cesarean birth....
We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of TENS after cesarean birth, with the primary outcome of opioid use during the first 60 hours postoperatively. Secondary outcomes inc...
From January 2020 through March 2021, we enrolled 180 participants-60 per group. Baseline characteristics were similar across groups. Median (interquartile range) opioid consumption in the first 60 ho...
Use of TENS after cesarean birth did not change hospital opioid consumption, pain scores, or length of postoperative stay. There was no evidence for a placebo effect of TENS on opioid use or pain scor...
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04399707....
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