Analgesic effectiveness of the association of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and cryotherapy for chronic low back pain

Abreu, Eliziete Almeida de; Santos, Jean Douglas Moura dos; Ventura, Patrícia Lima

doi:10.1590/s1806-00132011000100006

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“…It is also known that walking after cryotherapy application accelerates sensory and motor nervous conduction recovery process 12 ; however, in our study subjects have remained at rest after cryotherapy. In addition, cryotherapy improves the level of patients' satisfaction as compared to other analgesic modalities 13 . Our study decided for the gel bag due to practicality and availability in the service.…”

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Influence of cryotherapy application time on skin sensitivity

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cryotherapy is a treatment modality with several therapeutic effects, of low cost and easy to apply and access. This study aimed to observing whether there are changes in sensitivity according to cryotherapy application time, in addition to skin sensitivity behavior after treatment. METHODS: Participated in the study 21 individuals (14 females and 7 males, mean age 23.8±4 years) who were randomly distributed in three groups with 7 individuals each. Groups received cryotherapy application for 10, 20 or 30 minutes and were called groups C10, C20 and C30, respectively. All participants were previously submitted to skin sensitivity evaluation by Semmes-Weinstein monofilament and were evaluated immediately after cryotherapy application, 5, 10 and 15 minutes after application. Data were analyzed with Friedman's test complemented by multiple comparisons post-test (Dunn's post hoc). RESULTS: All individuals had hypoesthesia in the evaluation immediately after cryotherapy application. There has been significant difference in sensitivity recovery of group C20 as compared to C10 and C30 10 minutes after the intervention (p=0.0498). For groups C10 and C30, sensitivity has returned 15 minutes after the end of application. CONCLUSION: There has been lack of tactile sensitivity five minutes after the end of application, regardless of intervention time. Normal sensitivity recovery was observed after 10 minutes when cold was applied for 20 minutes, and after 15 minutes when cold was applied for 10 or 30 minutes.

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Influence of cryotherapy application time on skin sensitivity

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Evaluation of Electrostimulation Effect in Women With Vocal Nodules

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Silvério

Oliveira³

et al. 2016

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Analysis of the muscle tissue of Wistar rats submitted to the sciatic nerve compression model and cryotherapy

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Kakihata

Vieira

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Einstein (São Paulo)

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Objective:To evaluate the effects of right sciatic nerve compression and cryotherapy on muscle tissue.Methods:We used 42 male Wistar rats, subdivided in the following Groups Control, Injury 3, Injury 8 and Injury 15 submitted to nerve compression and euthanized in the 3rd, 8th and 15th day after surgery. The Cryotherapy Injury 3 was entailed treatment with cryotherapy by immersion of the animal in recipient for 20 minutes during 1 day, then animals were euthanized at the 3rd day after surgery, and the Cryotherapy Injury 8 and the Cryotherapy Injury 15 was treated for 6 days, and euthanized at the 8th and 15th day after surgery. Functional evaluation was performed by the grasping strength of the right pelvic limb. The right tibialis anterior muscles were evaluated for mass, smaller diameter and cross-sectional area. In the Cryotherapy Injury 8 and the Cryotherapy Injury 15 groups, the hydroxyproline was dosed in the right soles.Results:In the compression there was a significant difference in the Injury Groups compared with the Control Group (p<0.05). In the smaller diameter, the compression in Control Group was higher than Injury 8 (p=0.0094), Injury 15 (p=0.002) and Cryotherapy Injury 15 (p<0.001) groups. The comparison between groups with euthanasia in the same post-operative period, a significant difference (p=0.0363) was seen in day 8th after surgery, and this result in Cryotherapy Injury Group was greater than Injury Group. In the fiber area, Control Group was also higher than the Injury 8 (p=0.0018), the Injury 15 (p<0.001) and the Cryotherapy Injury 15 (p<0.001). In hydroxyproline, no significant difference was seen between groups.Conclusion:Nerve damage resulted in decreased muscle strength and trophism, the cryotherapy delayed hypotrophy, but this effect did not persist after cessation of treatment.

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Analgesic effectiveness of the association of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and cryotherapy for chronic low back pain

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Influence of cryotherapy application time on skin sensitivity

Influence of cryotherapy application time on skin sensitivity

Evaluation of Electrostimulation Effect in Women With Vocal Nodules

Analysis of the muscle tissue of Wistar rats submitted to the sciatic nerve compression model and cryotherapy

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