| Abstract: | Thirty-four patients with glossalgia were studied. The painful part of tongue was electrically stimulated using an ‘élektronika-2M’
apparatus with a current of 45 μA for 10–20 min (current strength was patient-controlled to produce the sensation of local
prickling); courses consisted of 10–12 treatments. The results of electrical stimulation therapy were compared with results
obtained using standard methods of treatment (novocaine blockade, analgesics, etc.), which were used in a control group of
30 patients. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation was highly effective: improvements were noted after the first session,
and significant reductions in pain syndrome occurred after 1–3 sessions; therapeutic effects were obtained at the end of treatment
in all 34 patients, i.e., in 100% of cases, as compared with 70% in the control group, with remission lasting more than one
year in 20 patients and from 3–12 months in 14.
Department of Nerve Diseases, Faculty of Stomatology, N. A. Semashko Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute; Department of
Therapeutic Stomatology, N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical Institute. Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiarii
imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 95, No. 5, pp. 19–21, September–October, 1995. |
