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Effect of Acupuncture - Like Transcutaneous electrical Nerve Stimulation on Serum Cortisol Level in Post Skin Grafting /

Mohamed Fetouh Mahmoud Rawash

Effect of Acupuncture - Like Transcutaneous electrical Nerve Stimulation on Serum Cortisol Level in Post Skin Grafting / تأثير التنبيه العصبى الكهربى المماثل للوخز بالابر الصينية عبر الجلد على مستوى كورتيزول الدم فيما بعد ترقيع الجلد Mohamed Fetouh Mahmoud Rawash ; Supervised Zakaria Mowafy Emam Mowafy , Seham Ali Eltemtamy , Mervate Elsayed Mohamed - Cairo : Nour Shafik Elgendy , 2006 - 140P ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Physical Therapy - Department Of Physical Therapy For Surgery

The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of acupuncture - Like transcutanous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on the serum cortisol (SCL) and pain levels after grafting of burned leg Subjects ; Forty patients were divided to control group (A) , were immobilized by ankle splint and same immobilization done for the study group (B) , in addition to TENS The treatment was started from 1st to 10th day post grafting for 30 minutes daily Evaluation ; SCL by Elecsys 2010 system and pain by Visual analogue scale (VAS) Results ; Showed high significant difference of SCL and VAS values



Cortisol level Skin Graft