Local Analgesia From Percutaneous Electrical Stimulation. A Peripheral Mechanism

Campbell, J. N.; Taub, A. H.

doi:10.1097/00132586-197406000-00036

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“…A later deflection has been described following the A-beta wave on painful stimulation, and a second deflection has been attributed to the ac tivation of A-delta nerve fibers [1,9], but we could not obtain such a late deflection in our subjects.…”

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“…The continuous electri cal stimulation applied to peripheral nerves and used for pain suppression produces an impulse blockage in the afferent nerve fibers [1,9,22,24], and this was attributed by some authors to a peripheral suppression mecha nism which was evidenced by reduction in the amplitude of the compound nerve action potential and/or prolongation of its latency [1,9].…”

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Effect of Continuous Vibration on Sural Nerve Action Potentials

Ertekin¹,

Çitakoğlu²,

Ertekin³

1980

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg

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The effects of continuous vibration on sural nerve action potentials were investigated in 15 subjects. The results show that continuous vibration applied to the sural nerve innervated skin area produces an amplitude reduction of the sural nerve action potentials on both painless and painful stimulation conditions. This amplitude decrease is attributed to an impulse blockage of the large diameter afferent nerve fibers.

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Effect of Continuous Vibration on Sural Nerve Action Potentials

Ertekin¹,

Çitakoğlu²,

Ertekin³

1980

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg

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“…Despite reducing interest in electroanaesthesia, it was recognised in the early 1970s that low-intensity electrical current delivered to the spinal cord inhibited cord function and pain transmission [38,39]. In 1974, Shimoji et al inserted stainless steel wires into the epidural spaces of eight human volunteers and used a constant-current stimulator delivering a 3.5-11.5 mA current at 5 Hz.…”

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Electroanaesthesia – from torpedo fish to TENS

Francis

Dingley

2014

Anaesthesia

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SummaryIn 153 AD, the Roman physician Scribonius Largus identified that electric current had analgesic properties, instructing patients to stand on an electric ray for the treatment of gout. In 2014, transcranial magnetic stimulation was approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for the treatment of migraine. Although separated by nearly two millennia, these milestones represent the evolution of the utilisation of electric current in medical and anaesthetic practice. Significant advances have been made over the last century in particular, and during the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of patients were reportedly anaesthetised for surgical interventions using electric current as the anaesthetic agent. Many medical interventions, including transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation, have evolved in the aftermath of investigations into electroanaesthesia; the potential for electric current to be an anaesthetic agent of the future still exists.

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“…Peripheral conditioning electrical nerve stimulation is accepted as an effective pain-relieving method in chronic pain conditions [ 15,20], Besides activation of specific neuronal pain-inhibiting peripheral and central mech anisms [4,9,16], there is a possibility that personality factors and other psychiatric factors may account in part for the effect in positive or negative directions [2,14,17], Basing their work upon the concept of individual perceptual reactance introduced by Petrie [19] and Petrie et al [18] and correlating it to interindividual differences in the perception of painful stim ulation, Silverman [21] and Buchshaum and Silverman [3] showed that indi viduals with an augmenting or reducing tendency in visual evoked poten tials (VEP) to increasing peripheral stimulation also differed in their reac tivity to pain. An augmenting tendency in VEP is connected with a low pain threshold and a low tolerance level for pain whereas a reducing tendency is connected with a relatively high pain threshold and a high tolerance level [12].…”

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Personality Factors Related to the Outcome of Treatment with Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation

Johansson¹,

Almay²,

Knorring

1981

Psychopathology

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Personality factors are known to influence the augmenting/reducing tendency in evoked potentials and also the results obtained from pain-relieving methods in chronic pain conditions. In this study 30 chronic pain patients treated with high frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation were evaluated by means of personality inventories and visual evoked potentials (VEP). The results indicate that the group for whom the treatment had a positive outcome had an augmenting tendency in VEP and also significantly differed as regards certain factors in the EPI (high values in the L scale) and the CMPS (high values in factors I, II, IX, X and index I, V) personality inventories.

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Local Analgesia From Percutaneous Electrical Stimulation. A Peripheral Mechanism

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Effect of Continuous Vibration on Sural Nerve Action Potentials

Effect of Continuous Vibration on Sural Nerve Action Potentials

Electroanaesthesia – from torpedo fish to TENS

Personality Factors Related to the Outcome of Treatment with Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation

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