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Every month, new publications describe the results obtained in the fight against pain using electrotherapy.
The American National Medical Library has registered 364 scientific publications primarily dedicated to the subject of pain-killing electrotherapy for 2007 alone. Of these, 41 relate specifically to the treatment of headaches.
Among those:
(1): Headache. 2000 Apr;40(4):311-5 : Ahmed HE, White PF, Craig WF,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.
Use of percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) in the short-term management of headache.
(2): Neurol Sci. 2003 May;24 Suppl 2:S138-42 : Allais G, De Lorenzo C, Quirico PE,.
Woman's Headache Center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Turin, Italy.
Non-pharmacological approaches to chronic headaches: transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation in transformed migraine treatment.
(3): Headache. 2004 Apr;44(4):333-41: Xue CC, Dong L, Polus B, English RA
RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Electroacupuncture for tension-type headache on distal acupoints only: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial.
(4): Science 150: 971-979. Melzack, R, Wall, P, (1965)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pain mechanisms: A new theory.
(5): Science 155: 108-109. Wall, PD, Sweet, WH (1967)
Division of Physiology, St Thomas's Campus, London, UK
Temporary abolition of pain in man.
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