Electrical stimulation can be used to treat mothers’ pain after cesarean delivery, thus helping to reduce the use of opioids, according to recently published data.
In the triple-blind trial, researchers randomized 134 women who gave birth to a single child or twins through cesarean delivery at 22 to 42 weeks (JAMA Netw Open 2023;6[10]:e2338188). A group was treated with high-frequency electrical stimulation and compared with the control group, which was administered sham stimulation with a