Peripheral Nerve Injury
Amy Bean
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
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Our peripheral nervous system is a network of nerves that deliver motor, sensory and autonomic information (regulates body functions such as heart rate and digestion) from our brain and spinal cord to the rest of our body. Think of it like our telephone system sending messages and calls along telegraph lines to the end receiver and back again.
If any of the nerves are injured e.g. trauma, compression from bulging spinal disc, broken bones pushing on them etc., this disrupts the signals being sent. This can lead to weakness or absence of movement depending on the severity of the nerve damage, loss or altered sensation and for some people pain.
The injury can be partial meaning there is still some connection to send the electrical signals but movement is weaker, there is reduced sensation or altered pain; or it can be a complete severance of the nerve fibre resulting in no movement and sensation.
Treatment and management will be dependent on the extent of the nerve damage.
TENS : Using Electrical stimulation for Pain Relief
Amy Bean
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
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What is it?
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, or TENS as it commonly referred to, is the use of electrical stimulation for pain relief.
In simple terms this type of electrical stimulation blocks the pain signals being sent to the brain and spinal cord to provide pain relief. It therefore doesn’t combat the cause of the problem but can provide much needed temporary relief for some users and is a potential alternative to medication.
Depending on the cause of the pain, the relief may provide relaxation to muscles that are in spasm because of the pain which will allow more freedom in movement. TENS can also stimulate the production of endorphins, our bodies natural pain killers.
Sensory Electrical Stimulation for Pain Management
Amy Bean
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
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The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as “An unpleasant sensory or emotional
experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” And this can be from many different causes ranging from arthritis in a joint, to muscle damage from a sports injury to “post stroke pain” which might be from a shoulder subluxation, spasticity or joint stiffness from lack of movement.
We have previously discussed the use of TENS for pain relief in a previous blog but in this blog we are going to go more in depth into the use of Sensory Electrical Stimulation to manage pain.
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