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6419/37 AIM21(3) 30/9/03 3:02 PM Page 117 Book Review TENS: Transkutane elektrische Nerven- Pothmann’s introduction to TENS as a form of stimulation in der Schmerztherapie (TENS: muscle stimulation (TEMS), for example, is Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in skimpy, lacking in practical data. Gessler’s pain therapy) contributions on neurogenic, stump and phantom Raymond Pothmann (editor) pain, and headache do not appear to have been updated for this edition, and lack the evidence Paperback, Pages: 153, Price: ^34.95 based approach of some of the other authors, Hippokrates Verlag (Thieme Verlagsgruppe), such as Goepel, writing on postoperative pain. Stuttgart (2003) Gessler also contributes a useful if somewhat 3rd edition, revised and enlarged stodgy chapter on the practicalities of TENS in www.hippokrates.de the pain clinic, and Hankemeier and Krizanits- ISBN 3-8304-5228-4 Weine include a brief summary of the choices involved in deciding whether or not to employ TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve TENS with particular patients. stimulation) is an important tool for any For the acupuncturist, three chapters are practitioner who works with pain. particularly relevant. The first (Pothmann), on Since Deirdre Walsh’s standard textbook on TENS and acupuncture, includes some useful TENS was published in 1997, the only new UK comparisons between the
Acupuncture in Medicine – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2003
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