Effect of pulsed short wave on post operative and traumatic pain

ABSTRACT

Pain is a common symptoms in most of the diseases and injuries, its control or relief may be of a great importance for both the patient and the physical therapist. In this trial twenty volunteer patients, nine of them were post operative lumbar disc prolapse and the other eleven with traumatic back pain following jumping, lifting heavy weights or trauma to the back, those patients participated in this study to evaluate the effect of the pulsed short wave on relieving their pain, the treatment time was four weeks, the results showed a significant improvement