ORIGINAL
PAPERS –
abstract
Efficiency of TENS
after Orthopedic Surgery Tolga
ATAY1,
Hasan
HALLACELI2,
Metin Lutfi BAYDAR1,
Nevres Hurriyet AYDOGAN1,
Tuba Ince PARPUCU2
1
Department
of Orthopedics, Suleyman Demirel University, School of Medicine,
Isparta,TURKEY
2
Department
of Physicial Therapy and Rehabilitation, Suleyman Demirel University,
School of Medicine
Abstract.
This
study comprises two groups, one of them control group and the other
one experiment group, for the purpose of determining the efficiency
of TENS treatment (Transcuteneal Electric Current Nerve Stimulation)
on patients suffering from pain after surgery on skeleton system. A
total of 40 cases, 20 in each group, have been included in the
research. Classical physiotherapy programmer has been applied to the
cases after orthopedic surgery. In addition, TENS current has been
applied to only experiment group. Before and after surgery, pain
diagnosis has been evaluated in accordance with “Visual
Analog
Scale”. Statistical results of the data we obtained both
before
treatment and after treatment are as the following: average VAS value
for the control group before and after treatment is 4,0500+/-0,88704
and 0,7000+/- 0,73270 while for experiment group it is respectively
3,8000+/-1,0052 and 0,5500+/-0,60481. When the values of
postoperative pain findings of patients in both groups have been
evaluated with VAS, it is not regarded statistically meaningful among
VAS values of after-treatment period (p>0.05).
Key
words: post
operative pain; electrotherapy; TENS |
