Vibration dulls pain of injection
US skin cancer clinic study shows it even helps those who catastrophise pain
19th September 2019
A vibratory device can reduce the pain of an anaesthetic injection prior to skin cancer surgery, but it it is not as effective in patients who catastrophise pain, a study shows.
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US plastic surgeons studied 87 patients who underwent a total of 101 cutaneous cancer surgeries at a tertiary dermatological surgery clinic, with most surgeries being on the head and neck