1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana
2Post graduate Student, Department of Physiotherapy, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana
Online published on 18 July, 2017.
Pain is the most common complaint of an individual, which can be with or without injury. Pain is the key in order to find out the disease or disorders i.e. interfering normal life in human beings. It can be due to multiple reasons but some known pathways for pain can be nociceptive, physiological, neuropathic or mixed. Although there are various clinical methods in order to relieve pain but the main objective of present study was to find if Iontophoresis can reduce pain be it musculoskeletal or neurological pain. Also summarization of all evaluated work is done in various studies.
Various studies have been taken from goggle scholar, Pubmed, springer link that includes relief of pain with application of Iontophoresis with dexamethasone. Selection of study, extraction of data and assessment of methodological quality and clinical relevance were performed independently by reviewers. In order to synthesize the results, the data extraction is done through trials that are included in the review. Therefore on the basis of included articles the results are laid down.
Various studies which show the use of Iontophoresis with dexamethasone in pain relief are used. 8 studies are included.
Although there are various modalities which can help in reducing pain but present review shows that Iontophoresis with Dexamethasone can be used as very useful tool for reducing pain. It gives good results. Iontophoresis can be used as an adjunct with various other drugs to reduce pain.
Pain, Iontophoresis, Dexamethasone, Visual Analogue Scale, Physiotherapy
