TENS and heat therapy for pain relief and quality of life improvement in individuals with primary dysmenorrhea: A systematic review

Igwea, Sylvester Emeka; Tabansi-Ochuogu, Chidinma Samantha; Abaraogu, Ukachukwu Okoroafor

doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2016.05.001

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“…Cold and humid days appeared to affect menstrual cramp. This result is consistent with reports from previous studies where heat therapy appeared to have analgesic effect on menstrual cramp [22,23,24]. Higher temperature was associated with agitation/anxiety while weather did not appear to affect depressed mood.…”

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Weather and Health Symptoms

Lee

Ohde

Urayama

et al. 2018

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Weather affects the daily lives of individuals. However, its health effects have not been fully elucidated. It may lead to physical symptoms and/or influence mental health. Thus, we evaluated the association between weather parameters and various ailments. We used daily reports on health symptoms from 4548 individuals followed for one month in October of 2013, randomly sampled from the entirety of Japan. Weather variables from the monitoring station located closest to the participants were used as weather exposure. Logistic mixed effects model with a random intercept for each individual was applied to evaluate the effect of temperature and humidity on physical symptoms. Stratified analyses were conducted to compare weather effects by sex and age group. The lag day effects were also assessed. Joint pain was associated with higher temperature (1.87%, 95% CI = 1.15 to 2.59) and humidity (1.38%, 95% CI = 0.78 to 2.00). Headaches was increased by 0.56% (95% CI = −0.55 to 1.77) per 1 °C increase in the maximum temperature and by 1.35% per 1 °C increase in dew point. Weather was associated with various physical symptoms. Women seem to be more sensitive to weather conditions in association with physical symptoms, especially higher humidity and lower temperature.

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confidence: 92%

Weather and Health Symptoms

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Ohde

Urayama

et al. 2018

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“…The analgesic effect induced by tactile sensation is a well-known phenomenon (Igwea, Tabansi-Ochuogu, & Abaraogu, 2016;Johnson & Jones, 2017;Mancini, Beaumont, Hu, Haggard, & Iannetti, 2015); that is, pain resulting from afferent nociceptive inputs can be attenuated by simultaneous tactile input from the same area (Moran et al, 2011). This phenomenon has been attributed to the pain gating mechanism: tactile sensory inputs induced segmental inhibition of transmission of nociceptive inputs at the spinal level (Melzack & Wall, 1965).…”

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Analgesia induced by self‐initiated electrotactile sensation is mediated by top‐down modulations

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It is well known that sensory perception can be attenuated when sensory stimuli are controlled by self-initiated actions. This phenomenon is explained by the consistency between forward models of anticipated action effects and actual sensory feedback. Specifically, the brain state related to the binding between motor processing and sensory perception would have inhibitory function by gating sensory information via top-down control. Since the brain state could casually influence the perception of subsequent stimuli of different sensory modalities, we hypothesize that pain evoked by nociceptive stimuli following the self-initiated tactile stimulation would be attenuated as compared to that following externally determined tactile stimulation. Here, we compared psychophysical and neurophysiological responses to identical nociceptive-specific laser stimuli in two different conditions: self-initiated tactile sensation condition (STS) and nonself-initiated tactile sensation condition (N-STS). We observed that pain intensity and unpleasantness, as well as laser-evoked brain responses, were significantly reduced in the STS condition compared to the N-STS condition. In addition, magnitudes of alpha and beta oscillations prior to laser onset were significantly larger in the STS condition than in the N-STS condition. These results confirmed that pain perception and pain-related brain responses were attenuated when the tactile stimulation was initiated by subjects' voluntary actions, and exploited neural oscillations reflecting the binding between motor processing and sensory feedback. Thus, our study elaborated the understanding of underlying neural mechanisms related to top-down modulations of the analgesic effect induced by self-initiated tactile sensation, which provided theoretical basis to improve the analgesic effect in various clinical applications.

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“…Smernice (Antao, 2005) priporočajo terapijo s toploto, ki se lahko kombinira s farmakološko obliko (tabletami Ibuprofen). Avtorji / Authors Kategorija 1: farmakološko zdravljenje primarne dismenoreje oralna kontracepcija -nesteroidna protivnetna zdravilaplacebo zdravilo -kapsule -terapevtsko zdravilo -učinkovitost zdravil -zdravilo prve izbire -zdravilo druge izbire Daniels, et al, 2009;Zahradnik, et al, 2010;Ghodsi & Asltoghiri, 2014;Patel, et al, 2015;Al-Jefout & Nawaiseh, 2016 Kategorija 2: nefarmakološko zdravljenje primarne dismenoreje fizioterapija -terapija s toploto -TENS-terapija -joga -Keglove vaje -tek -vaje sproščanja -splošno raztezanjekapsule ingverja -kapsule cinkovega sulfata -tradicionalna kitajska medicina -akupunktura -akupresura -aromaterapija Kannan & Claydon, 2014;Kashefi, et al, 2014;Abaraogu & Tabanasi-Ochuogu, 2015;Ortiz, et al, 2015;Lee, et al, 2016;Igwea, et al, 2016;Abaraogu, et al, 2016;Sut & Kahyaoglu-Sut, 2017 Legenda / Legend: TENS -transkutana električna stimulacija živcev / transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation Kashefi in sodelavci (2013) so ugotovili, da kapsule ingverja in cinkovega sulfata učinkovito zmanjšujejo bolečino pri primarni disminoreji. Tudi Daily in sodelavci (2015) navajajo, da so šumeče ingverjeve tablete pomagale zmanjšati bolečino, ki so jo ocenili z vizualno analogno lestvico bolečine.…”

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Farmakološka in nefarmakološka terapija za zdravljenje primarne dismenoreje

Kavšak¹,

Avdylaj²

2018

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Uvod: V prispevku smo na podlagi sistematičnega pregleda literature identificirali različne oblike farmakološkega in nefarmakološkega zdravljenja, ki lahko ženskam s primarno dismenorejo pomagajo zmanjšati intenziteto bolečine. Namen raziskave je bil namreč ugotoviti oblike farmakološke in nefarmakološke terapije za zmanjšanje bolečine pri primarni dismenoreji.Metode: Za iskanje literature so bile uporabljene podatkovne baze: CINAHL, Medline, ScienceDirect in Cochrane Library. Uporabljeni so bili naslednji iskalni pojmi: primarna dismenoreja, menstrualna bolečina, farmakološko zdravljenje, nefarmakološko zdravljenje; v angleškem jeziku: primary dysmenorrhea, menstrual pain, pharmalogical intervention, non-pharmacological intervention. Iskanje je bilo omejeno na znanstvene revije, recenzirane publikacije, dostopne v celotnem besedilu, besedila, objavljena v angleškem jeziku v obdobju 2007–2017. Skupaj je bilo identificiranih 571 zadetkov, v končno analizo je bilo vključenih 13 raziskav, ki so ustrezale namenu raziskave.Rezultati: Analiziranih je bilo 13 raziskav, od tega pet farmakoloških in osem nefarmakoloških oblik zdravljenja. Rezultati raziskave so pokazali, da nesteroidna protivnetna zdravila ponujajo precejšnje zmanjšanje bolečine pri večini žensk s primarno dismenorejo. Ugotovitve kažejo, da vse oblike nefarmakološkega zdravljenja niso priporočljive in pri pacientkah s primarno dismenorejo ne pomagajo zmanjšati intenzitete bolečine. Diskusija in zaključek: Rezultati sistematičnega pregleda literature kažejo, da farmakološko zdravljenje učinkoviteje zmanjšuje intenziteto bolečine, saj se učinek delovanja zdravila izkaže v eni uri po zaužitju, vendar povzroča nekatere stranske učinke.

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TENS and heat therapy for pain relief and quality of life improvement in individuals with primary dysmenorrhea: A systematic review

Cited by 53 publications

References 12 publications

Weather and Health Symptoms

Weather and Health Symptoms

Analgesia induced by self‐initiated electrotactile sensation is mediated by top‐down modulations

Farmakološka in nefarmakološka terapija za zdravljenje primarne dismenoreje

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