A painless nerve-zapping device called Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) has long been used to ease arthritis, back pain and other ailments.
, making it easy to integrate into daily activities,” said study co-lead author Bijan Najafi. He's research director of the Center for Advanced Surgical & Interventional Technology at UCLA Health.Wearable TENS devices work by delivering low-wattage doses of electrical currents to nerves. and gait difficulties linked to long COVID. They were randomly assigned to wear either a working, high-dose TENS device or a "placebo" device that only issued very low doses of current.
Overall, just over 71% of people using the real TENS device thought they had noticed a health benefit versus 61.4% of those with the placebo device. A big plus was that most participants found the technology easy to use, so compliance rates were high, researchers noted. Still, “our sample size was limited, so further research is needed to confirm these findings," Najafi stressed.
The study was largely funded by the National Science Foundation, with the Quell TENS device supplied free of charge to researchers by its maker, Neurometrix Inc.SOURCE: UCLA Health, news release, Nov. 26, 2024
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