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Passive Care Research
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Interferential Therapy & TENS -
Low Back Pain
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1. Zambito, A. Interferential and horizontal therapies in chronic low back pain: a randomized, double blind, clinical study. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Sep-Oct; 24 (5): 534-9 (2006)
Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) is one of the most frequent medical problems.
Twenty-six men and 94 women with CLBP were randomly assigned to either interferential currents (IFT), horizontal therapy (HT) or sham HT administered for 10, 40 and 40 minutes, respectively, daily for 5 days per week for two weeks.
This randomized double-blind controlled study provides the first evidence that IFT and HT therapy are significantly effective in alleviating both pain and disability in patients with CLBP.
The placebo effect is remarkable at the beginning of the treatment but it tends to vanish within a couple of weeks.
2. Melzack, R et. al. Ice massage and transcutaneous electrical stimulation: comparison of treatment for low-back pain. Pain.1980 Oct; 9(2):209-17
The purpose of this study was to examine the relative effectiveness of ice massage and TENS for the relief of low-back pain.
Patients suffering chronic low-back pain were treated with both ice massage and TENS.
- Both methods are equally effective at relieving pain.
- The results indicate that ice massage is an effective therapeutic tool, and appears to be more effective than TENS for some patients.
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