A 2009 review in this area suggests that electrotherapy, including TENS, " are best avoided " in patients with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators ( ICDs ).
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During 1989-1990, he worked for the Department of Dermatology at Westminster Hospital as a clinical assistant, where he successfully treated several patients with psoriasis using electrotherapy.
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Electrotherapy can cause unnecessary stress and surgery can dull the personality, as the area of the brain responsible for emotion ( hypothalmus ) is often altered or even completely removed.
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Like his electrotherapy patients, the children were largely poor relief cases who could not afford to pay for medical treatment and were much used for the training of medical students.
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During that period he also worked at the Institute of Ophthalmology, where he also successfully treated a number of exophthalmos cases using the electrotherapy methods he had developed in Baghdad.
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In the meantime, the 40-year-old is receiving regular ultra-sound, electrotherapy and ice treatment and is wearing a fibreglass cast to aid the healing process.
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However, a more detailed review by the Cochrane Library found no evidence that electromagnetic therapy, a subset of electrotherapy, was effective in healing pressure ulcers or venous stasis ulcers.
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He was the author of over 250 medical works, including " Handbuch der Elektrotherapie " ( a textbook on electrotherapy ), and an important study on spinal paralysis.
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Escharotics by this time had already been used to treat skin malignancies through caustic burns, and electrotherapy had also been experimented with, in the aim to stimulate the skin tissue.
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Special hospital applies the most advanced electrotherapy devices ( galvanic, diadynamic, interfent, exponential and high-frequency, microwave and shortwave diatermija, ultrasound, etc . ) ..
