The Effect of using TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) in pain controlling while washing and dressing burn injuries

Background and While washing and dressing burn injuries, patients suffer from the acute pain. Therefor finding complementary methods with no side effects is an important issue. Thus this study was aimed at investigating the effect of TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) in pain controlling while washing and dressing burn injuries. In this clinical trial study, 60 patients with burn injuries among those referred to Sabzevar Vasee Hospital in 2014 were studied. The patients were divided into three groups (each group 20 patients) including control group (no treatment), case group (received morphine before dressing) and placebo group (received both morphine and TENS before dressing). At the end patients were asked to scale the amount of pain which they have experienced using pain numerical scale 0-10. The Data were analyzed using Friedman,Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-wallis tests and SPSS software (18th version). Note that P value was utilized at significant level 0.05. Thepain average in control group was obtained about 5.45±0.52, in case group 5.00±0.48 and in placebo group 7.00±0.56. Thus a significant difference between three groups was obtained. (P=0.00). Results showed using both TENS and morphine before washing and dressing burn injuries is effective to reduce the pain