by Andrew Marshall

Tennis Elbow: TENS & Primary Care Management

Research Paper Title Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation as Adjunct to Primary Care Management for Tennis Elbow: Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial (TATE Trial). Study Question Can transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), as a patient controlled adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow, provide superior pain relief to primary care management alone? Summary Answer TENS conferred… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Research: Optimism & Pain Sensitivity

A causal link between optimisim and lowered sensitivity to pain has demonstrated in a novel experiment that involved manipulating university students into a temporary optimisitc state (by writing about and visualising a future best possible self) and subjecting them to a cold pressor test to induc pain (involving the immersion of the non-dominant hand in… Read More