Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation reduces acute low back pain during emergency transport

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 607-611

  Bertalanffy, Alexander ^a   Kober, Alexander ^a   Bertalanffy, Petra ^a   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a   Gore, Odette ^b   Adel, Sharam ^a   Hoerauf, Klaus ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute low back pain; Emergency transport; Paramedics; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 20444460369     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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