DocumentCode
2194337
Title
A Brief Review on TENS
Author
Sahoo, Anusha ; Pandya, Viranchi C.
Author_Institution
Signal processing & Communication, EC Department, A.D.I.T., Anand, India
fYear
2015
fDate
24-25 Jan. 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
The use of physiotherapy dates back to ancient times with the use of heat and cold having therapeutic effect [6][11]. For pain relief, various physiotherapy methods are used. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of the most popular electrotherapy devices which generate physiotherapeutic effect. This device can be used for wide number of applications such as lower back pain, neck pain, post-operative pain, myofascial pain [7]. By changing its various parameters, same device can be used to serve the purpose of different applications.
Keywords
Electrodes; Frequency modulation; Logic gates; Nervous system; Pain; Resonant frequency; Skin; CNS; Electrotherapy; PNS; TENS; contraindications; modes; pain; waveform parameters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Visakhapatnam, India
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-7676-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EESCO.2015.7253801
Filename
7253801
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