Temporary Abolition of Pain in Man
- 6 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3758) , 108-109
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3758.108
Abstract
In eight patients with intense chronic cutaneous pain, sensory nerves or roots. supplying the painful area were stimulated. Square-wave 0.1-millisecond pulses at 100 cycles per second were applied, and the voltage was raised until the patient reported tingling in the area. During this stimulation, pressure on previously sensitive areas failed to evoke pain. Four patients, who had diseases of their peripheral nerves, experienced relief of their pain for more than half an hour after stimulation for 2 minutes.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The origin of a spinal‐cord slow potentialThe Journal of Physiology, 1962