The effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on local and distal cutaneous blood flow following a prolonged heat stimulus in healthy subjects

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 154-161

  Chen, Chih Chung ^a,b   Johnson, Mark I ^a   Mcdonough, Suzanne ^b   Cramp, Fiona ^c  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cutaneous blood flow; Frequency; Skin temperature; Superficial circulation; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED THERMOMETER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 34247247821     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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