External electric muscle stimulation improves burning sensations and sleeping disturbances in patients with type 2 diabetes and symptomatic neuropathy

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 413-419

  Humpert, Per M ^a   Morcos, Michael ^a   Oikonomou, Dimitrios ^a   Schaefer, Karin ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a   Bierhaus, Angelika ^a   Schilling, Tobias ^a   Nawroth, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetic neuropathy; Electric muscle stimulation; Treatment; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; OPIATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COMPLICATION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP DISORDERS; THIGH;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURALGIA; SLEEP DISORDERS; THIGH;

EID: 62349089508     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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