Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation at both high and low frequencies reduces primary hyperalgesia in rats with joint inflammation in a time-dependent manner

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-51

  Vance, Carol G T ^a   Radhakrishnan, Rajan ^b   Skyba, David A ^c   Sluka, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; KAOLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TIME; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33845982945     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060032     Document Type: Article

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