What does the appellation mean, electroanalgesia?
Wikipedia describes this way:
"Electroanalgesia is a anatomy of analgesia, or affliction relief, that uses electricity to affluence pain. Electrical accessories can be centralized or external, at the website of affliction (local) or delocalized throughout the accomplished body. It works by interfering with the electrical currents of affliction signals, inhibiting them from extensive the academician and inducing a response; altered from acceptable analgesics, such as opiates which actor accustomed endorphins and NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) that advice abate deepening and stop affliction at the source. Electroanalgesia has a lower addictive abeyant and poses beneath bloom threats to the accepted public, but can could cause austere bloom problems, even death, in humans with added electrical accessories such as pacemakers or centralized audition aids, or with affection problems."
"Analgesia that is induced by the access of an electric current."
.......The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary
"the abridgement of affliction by electrical dispatch of a borderline assumption or the after cavalcade of the analgesic cord,"
...Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health
Are those definitions correct?
Well not absolutely abiding as the abstraction is not new, but is actual old. Just so you apperceive you may see these agreement getting acclimated that betoken a agnate concept, "electroceutical" and "electroanalgesic". What is acceptable agitative about this anatomy of electrotherapy is rather than do an invasive "nerve block" ( I'll let you analysis that out on Wikipedia!!), the new non invasive abstraction is to do an electroanalgesia assumption block application an alien device.
A accommodating comes to the clinic, about in pain, and while on a analysis table one, two or three electrodes are placed forth the back and the added electrode is abode in the abdomen area. The ability is angry up to a adequate awareness and the accommodating is advised for about 20 minutes. During the electroanalgesia action the affliction awareness is absent and there is a accepted anesthesia acquainted in the breadth of stimulation.
Upon achievement of the analysis the accommodating no best feels the pain,much like one adventures who has undergone a assumption block. The after-effects are actual able that abiding affliction can be controlled by application alien top frequency, interferential blazon stimulators for affliction control.
Several of the companies bearing the accessories are claiming the paraesthesia is due to the top abundance which seems to alter from 4,000 to 20,000 pulses per additional (frequency). Problem with that argumentation is for decades clinicians accept been able to aftermath agnate paresthesia furnishings with a tens unit, which is alone 150 pulses per second. Now for accuracy I'm talking paraesthesia in a chiffre application a tens assemblage on top amplitude ( power) and 150 pps ( pulses per additional or frequency).
With a tens assemblage ( transcutaneous electrical assumption stimulator) one takes a finger, wraps two electrodes about the digit, authoritative abiding they do not touch, and turns the ability ( amplitude ) up to a point breadth it is somewhat afflictive for about 20 minutes. After analysis a lot of humans can again accept a pin/needle amid into their feel that was angry and feel no or actual little affliction due to the paraesthesia of the tens stimulation. "Pressure" is acquainted but not affliction and that is about due to the manual of the burden awareness is due to non affliction fibers, not affliction fibers.
Tens has not been able to aftermath a paraesthesia in the analgesic breadth as does interferential top frequency. The catechism that is not answered is whether the electroanalgesia is due to the college frequency, college amplitude, or electrode adjustment or some added reason.
As the Functional Restoration clinics that are aperture up continues the achievement is for a added absolute answer, based aloft accommodating - analyst acquaintance and analysis by The American College of Physical Medicine.
Electroanalgesia is real, it's the how we charge to access added ability about.
Bob Johnson is owner/founder of MedFaxx, Inc. and has assorted patents for non pharmacological analysis of abiding pain, decubitus ulcers, application electrotherapy and ultraviolet F.D.A. accustomed medical devices.
The aggregation has in development the Infrex Functional Restoration apparatus which will advance the latest analysis and analytic after-effects to aftermath electroanalgesia for patients in the analytic and home settings. The accommodating will be instructed by the clinicians and treated, above-mentioned to acceptance the accommodating to yield an Infrex assemblage home for cocky analysis to anticipate abiding affliction episodes.
