ActiPatch: Can It be a Tool to Empower Chronic Pain Patients?

Department of Anaesthesia, Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Sir, Chronic pain syndrome is a difficult entity to manage for clinicians.[1] The management is multimodal that comprises pharmacological approach in the form of opioids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, gabapentinoids, antidepressants, antiepileptic agents, and a lot of other nonopioid medications. The patients are also advised nonpharmacological therapies such as physiotherapy sessions, acupressure, acupuncture, aromatherapy, and TENS. ActiPatch (ActiPatch®– BioElectronics Corporation) is a low-power, pulsed shortwave therapy (PSWT) device that is available and marketed as an…

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