Effect of Capacitive Tecar Therapy on Foot Pain and Tactile Sensation in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

Objective: Because of the significant prevalence of diabetes, disability of patients due to the complication of Diabeti Neuropathy (DN) has been increased. Physiotherapy is one of the methods for DN which can help control the symptoms through modalities such as infrared radiation, electrical stimulation and electromagnetic fields. Tecar therapy is a form of electromagnetic fields.This study investigated the effect of Capacitive Tecar therapy on pain and tactile sensation of the feet in type 2 diabetics with symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Materials & Methods: This clinical trial was performed as pre-test and post-test with a control group. The samples consisted of 24 diabetics aged 17-78 years with symtoms of peripheral neuropathy allocated in the control and experimental group randomly. The patients of experimental groups participated in 10 sessions and received the Capasitive tecar therapy with 10%-30% intensity in addition to infrared radiatin; the controls received the same protocol with zero intensity of tecar. Pain and tactile sensation of the soles were evaluated before and after sessions. The collected data were analyzed by the Reapeted measure Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA). All statistical analyses were performed in SPSS V. 18. The significance level was set at P<0.05. Results: The results of Rearetd Measure ANOVA showed that there was a significant difference in the mean scores of pain and tactile sensation of soles in the post-test compared to the pre-test of two groups.(P<0.001).There was also a significant difference in the means of post-test scores of variable pain (P=0.002) and tactile sensation (P<0.001) between the two groups. The improvement of variables in experimental group was more than control group. Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that Tecar Therapy with infrared radiation can be an appropriate therapeutic program for improving pain and tactile sensation of soles in diabetic patients with symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.

TECAR Therapy Associated with High-Intensity Laser Therapy (Hilt) and Manual Therapy in the Treatment of Muscle Disorders: A Literature Review on the Theorised Effects Supporting Their Use

“…In addition, this therapy warms deep tissues, stimulates vascularity, promotes the repose of tissues (particularly muscle tissue), and stimulates drainage (oedema and hematoma) [ 90 ]. Based on these properties, TECAR treatment is employed in most orthopaedic pathologies before the start of rehabilitation exercises [ 91 ].…”

Effects of Transfer Energy Capacitive and Resistive On Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Accordingly, five studies were excluded for the following reasons: one study [6] assessed pain by other scales, such as the Ely test and pelvic tilt instead of VAS; two studies [19,20] evaluated tissue temperature changes post-TECAR therapy; and two studies were not randomized clinical trial (one case-control study [21] and one cross-sectional study [22]). Finally, eight studies were included in the final analysis [7][8][9][10][23][24][25][26].…”

“…Totally, 678 participants with a mean age of 49.9±15.24 years were evaluated. As shown in Table-2, five studies [8-10, 23, 25] were conducted in Italy, two in Iran [7,24], and one in South Korea [26]. The smallest sample size was related to the survey of Kim et al [26] with 22 patients, and the largest was related to the study carried out by Ganzit et al [25] with 327 participants.…”

“…Pain in the knee [23], shoulder [26], and ankle joints [24] were observed in other study populations. One study [7] examined patients with diabetic neuropathy. Pain as the significant variable was measured using VAS in all studies.…”

“…The efficiency of TECAR therapy has been established in reducing pain induced by musculoskeletal disorders [7][8][9][10]. The results obtained from a review of this modality demonstrated that TECAR therapy is an effective treatment for knee, shoulder, hip, ankle, spine, and hand pain.…”