Music Modulated TENS Therapy

  • Keerthana Mary Arul
  • Macleen M. Pereira
  • Yogesh Sapte
  • Yogesh N Chandurkar
Keywords: Post operative care, TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulus), Music therapy, Alleviating pain

Abstract

Often, for alleviating severe pain, strong painkiller medications are administered which leads to side effects on a long term basis. In case postoperative care this prolongs surgical recovery time in turn increased hospitalization costs. One cannot do away without using pain medications but finding an alternative way to lessen the dosage and therefore lessen the side effects is highly sought after area of research over the years .Alternative pain treatment methods, such as music therapy, TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulus) can be envisaged as an aid to some of the problems posed by pain medications. Implementing music therapy along with TENS could possibly reduce the health risk of these pain drugs and medical costs. In this paper the basic science of TENS, the results of various experiments conducted for testing effectiveness of TENS and combined effect of TENS and music that could be achieved in alleviating pain is discussed. The effect of TENS on parasite killing on vegetables increasing their shell life, accelerating relaxation in humans is highlighted in this paper.

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Published
2018-01-07
How to Cite
Arul, K., Pereira, M., Sapte, Y., & Chandurkar, Y. (2018). Music Modulated TENS Therapy. Asian Journal For Convergence In Technology (AJCT) ISSN -2350-1146, 3(3). Retrieved from http://asianssr.org/index.php/ajct/article/view/291
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