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Peripheral Nerve Injury and Electrical Stimulation: Which of Three Situations Are You In?
Someone has damaged a nerve. Perhaps because of a fracture, perhaps a fall, perhaps a complication of surgery they were told would be routine. They have read that electrical stimulation can help prevent muscle wasting. They have bought a device, often an inexpensive TENS unit, sometimes a consumer muscle stimulator. They have put the pads on, turned the intensity up as far as it will go, and nothing has happened. No contraction. No twitch. Nothing at all.
Then, usually near the end of the call, comes the question, and it is nearly always some version of this:
Could I have made it worse?