Successful Treatment of Scar Pain with Scrambler Therapy

Scar pain from thoracotomy, hepatectomy, or similar operations is distressing and difficult to treat. Scrambler Therapy is a novel form of superficial neuromodulation that has been effective in treating different types of neuropathic pain. We report here two cases of dramatic relief from disabling s...

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Autores principales: Yarchoan, Mark, Naidoo, Jarushka, Smith, Thomas J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pain Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6853271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31777690
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5903
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description Scar pain from thoracotomy, hepatectomy, or similar operations is distressing and difficult to treat. Scrambler Therapy is a novel form of superficial neuromodulation that has been effective in treating different types of neuropathic pain. We report here two cases of dramatic relief from disabling scar pain with one or two sessions of Scrambler Therapy.
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spelling pubmed-68532712019-11-27 Successful Treatment of Scar Pain with Scrambler Therapy Yarchoan, Mark Naidoo, Jarushka Smith, Thomas J Cureus Pain Management Scar pain from thoracotomy, hepatectomy, or similar operations is distressing and difficult to treat. Scrambler Therapy is a novel form of superficial neuromodulation that has been effective in treating different types of neuropathic pain. We report here two cases of dramatic relief from disabling scar pain with one or two sessions of Scrambler Therapy. Cureus 2019-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6853271/ /pubmed/31777690 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5903 Text en Copyright © 2019, Yarchoan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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