Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation for Pain after Spinal Injury
- 10 October 1974
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 291 (15) , 796
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197410102911519
Abstract
To the Editor: It has been stated that 14 to 45 per cent of patients with spinal-cord injury suffer from agonizing pain either during or after their rehabilitation (Burke DC: Pain in paraplegia. Paraplegia 10:279–313, 1973). The pain commonly described is below the level of the lesion and is usually constant, burning and very distressing.I have had the opportunity to study the efficacy of transcutaneous nerve stimulation for the relief of pain in five patients with spinal-cord injury in whom pain developed as described above. In two there was a painful phantom that was mobile — i.e., in spite . . .Keywords
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