None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Yet, no study has demonstrated the benefits of TENS in treating postoperative pain after inguinal herniorrhaphy using SCL. The research question for this study were: 1. Does TENS applied for 30 minutes twice daily reduce pain intensity and SCL after inguinal hernia repair ?
Interventions
Active TENS group received conventional TENS of 100 Hz, pulse width of 120 microseconds, with perceptible tingling sensation, applied for 30 minutes, twice daily for 5 consecutive days using 2 electrodes that were placed parallel to the incision.
Sponsors
mohammed Taher Ahmed Omar
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Male
Age
30 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
The inclusion criteria were: (1) direct or indirect inguinal hernia (Gillbert 1989); (2) use of Lichtenstein surgical technique (Lichtenstien and Shulman 1994); (3) infiltration anesthetic technique (Amid et al 1994); (4)male adult aged between 25 and 45 years; (5) physical status I - II, according to American Assoication of anesthesia (ASA ) (Hamza et al., 1999); (6) no hearing, visual, or speaking impairments; (7) no cognitive disturbances; and (8) resident of Cairo, willing to the participate, with support for postoperative care and a telephone at home for medical assistance, if necessary.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria were: (1) morbid obesity; (2) poor liver (serum bilirubin>2.0 mg/dL) or kidneys (serum creatinine>1.5 mg/dL.) (Chiu et al., 1999);(3) neurological or pulmonary diseases;(4) cardiac illness, such as cardiac arrhythmia, angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, and uncontrolled hypertension, and (5) chronic use of opioids (Chiu et al., 1999).
Outcome results
None listed