H-wave

[Doctodd]

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i had a rep come in from a DME company trying to sell me something called an H-wave muscle stimulator. Anybody have any experience with it?

 

[hyperalgesia]

I had a patient raving about one of those once. "The TENS unit is a joke. The RS-4i doesn't work. But the H-wave saved my life!" Take that FWIW.

 

[Jcm800]

i had a rep come in from a DME company trying to sell me something called an H-wave muscle stimulator. Anybody have any experience with it?

its silly, and nobody but work comp will pay for it...

 

[deleted185747]

I know what an EMG H-wave is useful for. But a stimulator? Maybe its like the machine that detects pain by measuring the sensory threshold in various dermatomes what a joke

 

[Doctodd]

H-Wave has no MC reimbursement......only w/c and its like triple what RS medical charges. RS Medical supports ISIS so that is who i work with for MC patients.

 

[jesspt]

It is essentially a TENS machine, with reps claiming that it is different than traditional TENS due to the wave form - "It is like the H-Wave reflex which occurs naturally in the human body."

A study in Archives of Phys Med & Rehab in 1999 revealed no significant difference in post-treatment mechanical pain thresholds between H-wave and TENS unit.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?...nerve stimulation on pain threshold in humans

 

[facetguy]

I never found it to be anything special.