‘Scrambler therapy’ may finally zap away chronic pain for good

Whether we’re talking about arthritis or a lingering back injury, chronic pain can be a serious detriment to one’s quality of life. Fascinating new research, however, is putting forth a potential new way to effectively alleviate chronic pain. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say their latest work indicates a noninvasive pain treatment called scrambler therapy is capable of yielding significant relief among approximately 80 to 90 percent of chronic pain patients.

Researchers add that scrambler therapy may even be more effective than another noninvasive therapy: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).

Scrambler therapy was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2009 and entails administering electrical stimulation through the skin using electrodes placed in areas of the body above and below the source of the chronic pain. The aim of the therapy is to capture the nerve endings and replace signals from the area experiencing pain with signals coming from adjacent areas experiencing no pain.

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