Alternative therapies in health and medicine
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Altern Ther Health Med · Jan 2021
Randomized Controlled TrialEffects of Percutaneous Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for Neck Pain in Patients With Cervical Spondylosis.
Cervical spondylosis (CS) is a very common, age-related, chronic, disc-degeneration condition. Alternative medicine has been widely used to treat neck pain in CS. However, no randomized controlled trials have focused on the effects and safety of percutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (PNMES) for neck-pain relief in patients with CS. ⋯ The results of this study have demonstrated that PNMES is more effective than sham PNMES for neck-pain relief in patients with CS.