Abstract

PENS: A NEW TECHNIQUE TO MANAGE PAIN

Syed Abdul Jabbar Basha, Sagarika, Baby Sankeerthi* and G. Shreya

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Abstract

The term “mixed pain “is increasingly applied to specific clinical scenarios. There are several options for controlling certain type of chronic pain without the use of medication or surgery, interfering with the delivery of pain signals to the brain can be an effective pain management strategy, without the use of narcotics or other medications. A mini-invasive option is Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (PENS), it is a neuromodulation technique designed to manage a range of chronic peripheral neuropathic pain including areas of hypersensitivity, various types of headaches, low back pain and chronic post-surgical pains. Although PENS showed to be effective in reducing unspecified pain in several chronic pain conditions, there is still a lack of evidence in the management of neuropathic or mixed pain not responsive to pharmacological treatments. Therefore, in the present article we portray the potential effects of PENS in the multidisciplinary and multidimensional management of mixed chronic pain in patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

Keywords: PENS therapy, Electroanalgesia.