Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to F E Negro.
Percutaneous electrostimulation is performed in the treatment of headaches taking into account, after preliminary tests, the relative psychological symptom connected to headache. The authors suggest that a preliminary analysis is indispensable to the treatment of psychodynamic and psychopathologic mechanisms connected to headache.
Complications arising in association with acupuncture are frequently reported. Some are strictly technical, others--including viral hepatitis--are the result of hygienic problems. A statistical assessment of the frequency of HB antigen in out-patients treated during 1975 is reported.
Electromyographic variations by means of acupuncture. Electromyography is carried out in the treatment of severe arthrosis of the spinal column where radiology has shown a narrowing of the intervertebral spaces. Electromyography is also useful for determining the variations shown by the nerve during acupuncture.