Pharyngeal electrical stimulation (PEStim) has been found to facilitate voluntary swallowing. This study investigated how PEStim contributed to modulation of swallowing function in 15 healthy humans. In the involuntary swallowing test, water was injected onto the pharynx at 0.05 ml/s and the onset latency of the first swallow was measured. In the voluntary swallowing test, subjects swallowed th...

I found JSLS, Volume 9, Number 3 to be very informative. The fact that there were two articles [Gastric Electrical Stimulation: A Novel Treatment for Gastroparesis by de Csepel J, Shapsis A, Jordan C; and Laparoscopy Shortens Length of Stay in Patients With Gastric Electrical Stimulators by Al-Juburi A, Granger S, Barnes J, Voeller G, Beech D, Amiri H, Abell TL] on electrical stimulation for ga...

Electrical stimulation is a common adjunct used to promote bone healing; its efficacy, however, remains uncertain. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized sham-controlled trials to establish the efficacy of electrical stimulation for bone healing. We identified all trials randomizing patients to electrical or sham stimulation for bone healing. Outcomes were pain relief, functional improvemen...

OBJECTIVE Extraoperative cortical localizing stimulation (LS) is a standard clinical tool used to assess brain function before epilepsy surgery. However, LS can produce unwanted afterdischarges (ADs). We previously have shown that brief pulses of electrical stimulation (BPS) can terminate ADs caused by cortical stimulation. Our objective was to assess whether wavelet-crosscorrelation analysis c...

conclusions tens can reduce postoperative pain in the early hours after inguinal hernia repair surgery. results the mean estimated postoperative pain intensity was 6.21 ± 1.63 in the intervention group and 5.45 ± 1.82 in the control group (p = 0.08). in the intervention group pain intensity at 2 and 4 hours after surgery were 3.54 ± 1.48 and 5.12 ± 1.41 (p < 0.001), respectively. in the control...

background: repeated efforts by researchers to impose voice changes by laryngeal surface electrical stimulation (ses) have come to no avail. this present pre-experimental study employed a novel method for ses application so as to evoke the motor potential of the internal superior laryngeal nerve (isln) and create voice changes. methods: thirty-two normal individuals (22 females and 10 males) pa...