What does this term mean electroanalgesia?
Wikipedia describes this method:
“Electroanalgesia is a form of pain relief or pain relief that uses electricity to relieve pain. Electrical devices can be internal or external, at the site of pain (locally) or delocalized throughout the body. Sick signals that impede their achievement of the brain and the impulse to respond are different from traditional analgesics, such as opiates, which mimic natural endorphins and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) that help alleviate inflammation and stop pain at the source. It has a lower addictive potential and poses less health threats to the general public, but can cause serious health problems, even death, in people with other electrical devices, such as pacemakers or internal hearing aids, or heart problems. ”
"Analgesia caused by the passage of electric current."
....... American Heritage® Medical Dictionary
"Reduction of pain by electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerve or dorsal column of the spinal cord",
... Miller-Kin encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine, nursing, and allied health
Are these definitions correct?
Well, not quite sure how the concept is not new, but very old. Just so that you know that you can use these terms that are simply similar to the concept of "electrolytic" and "electroanalgical." What becomes energized about this form of electrotherapy, rather than the invasive “nerve block” (I’ll let you check it on Wikipedia !!), is a new non-invasive concept to make an electro-analgesic unit using an external device.
The patient comes to the clinic, usually to the pain, and although one, two or three electrodes are placed on the treatment table along the spine, and the other electrode is located in the area of the stomach. The force is turned to a comfortable feeling, and the patient will be treated for about 20 minutes. During the electroanalgesia procedure, the sensation of pain is lost, and general anesthesia is felt in the area of stimulation.
Upon completion of treatment, the patient no longer feels pain, just as a person experiences who has undergone a nerve block. The results are very promising that chronic pain can be controlled using external, high-frequency interference-type stimulants to control pain.
Some of the companies that produce equipment claim that paraesthesia is due to the high frequency, which seems to range from 4,000 to 20,000 pulses per second (frequency). The problem with this logic for decades has allowed clinicians to obtain similar effects of paresthesia with a tenth unit, which is only 150 pulses per second. Now, for clarity, I'm talking about paraesthesia in digital, using dozens of units with high amplitude (power) and 150 pps (pulses per second or frequency).
When using dozens of units (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator), you take your finger, wind two electrodes around the digit, make sure that they do not touch each other, and turn the power (amplitude) to such an extent that it is somewhat uncomfortable for about 20 minutes . After treatment, for most people, a pin / needle can be inserted into their fingers, which were stimulated and did not feel any or very little pain due to paraesthesia of dozens of stimuli. The “pressure” is felt, but not the pain, and, as a rule, due to the transmission of the sensation of pressure, it is due to the non-painful fibers, and not to the painful fibers.
Dozens could not produce paresthesia in the spine, as well as the high frequency interference. To a question that did not answer whether electroanalgesia is the cause of a higher frequency, a higher amplitude or placement of an electrode, or for some other reason.
As opening clinics of functional restoration continue to hope for a more definitive answer, based on the experience of the patient and the clinician of the American College of Physical Medicine.
Electroanalgesia is real, this is how we need to get more knowledge.
