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use of CES in reducing pain in spinal pain patients.
Tomaszek, David E., M.D. & Morehead, Kenneth. 2001.
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38 patients who were waiting for surgical implantation of electrical
stimulators for spinal pain reduction were given Alpha-Stim SCS units
to use. 18 of these were in an open clinical trial where they used
them three times a week in the physician’s office, setting the
intensity to the level they wished, and 20 others used them at home,
preset at 200 microamps, as either active treatment or sham treatment,
one hour a day for three weeks.
Patients were asked to rate their pain when it was at its least
intensity, at its greatest intensity and as it was generally.The
graphs show that there was a significant reduction of pain in each of
the three measures. There was no placebo effect, since the sham
treated group actually became worse in two categories: pain at its
least and pain in general. They could not grow worse on the pain at
its most intense score, since they had begun at the top of this scale.
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Tomaszek, David E., M.D. & Morehead, Kenneth. 2001.
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Used with permission of Electromedical Products
International, Inc.
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