PMID: 6975459Aug 1, 1981Paper

The effects of non-painful transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on cutaneous pain threshold and muscular reflexes in normal men and in subjects with chronic pain

Pain
F FranciniM Zoppi

Abstract

In healthy subjects and in subjects with chronic myofascial pain of one lower limb, the following was measured in both lower limbs: (i) sequential Hoffman (H) reflex, (ii) sequential Achilles tendon (T) reflex, (iii) cutaneous pain threshold determined with electrical stimuli, before, during and after transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). In healthy subjects no significant differences were observed between the pain thresholds of the two limbs. During and after TENS, changes of the reflexes were related to the pain thresholds. In the pathological subjects a significant difference of pain threshold was present between the affected limb and the contralateral one. An important difference between healthy and pathological subjects is not the quality but the quantity of the changes induced by TENS, in the sense that the levels of inhibition and facilitation of the reflexes are more evident in patients with pain. Indeed, TENS induces a reset of sensory and of motor system and a parallel long lasting effect both on sensory and on muscular function, with concomitant pain relief in the pathological subjects.

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