Abstract:We've read with great interest the paper "Immediate analgesic effect of the 2KHz interferential current in chronic low back pain: randomized clinical trial" 1. Neuromodulation is based on the concept that the electrical stimulation-induced paresthesia can be analgesic. Its historical basis emanates from the gate control theory of pain proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965 2. Neuromodulation gave us access to pain modulation systems and helped to mature the understanding of the pathophysiology of pain 3. However… Show more
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