Predicting outcome of TENS in chronic pain: A prospective, randomized, placebo controlled trial

Pain

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 11-20

  Oosterhof, Jan ^a   Samwel, Han J A ^a   de Boo, Theo M ^a   Wilder Smith, Oliver H G ^a   Oostendorp, Rob A B ^a,b   Crul, Ben J P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Institute of Allied Health Care NPi   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Double blind randomized controlled trial; Predicting outcome; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749100858     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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