[Efficacy of mini-TENS in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea].

Recent knowledge on the pathogenetic mechanisms which are thought to be responsible for primary dysmenorrhea in most young females allow us to abandon old therapeutical approaches for several medical solutions with high effectiveness rates. But a number of patients remain for whom these treatments are not suitable or not effective. Mainly for these patients, today we can offer a valid alternative, a new kind of electroanalgesy, TENS, now easier to use owing to the miniaturization of the machine. In fact, in two groups of patients resistant or insensitive to modern medical therapies, we obtained good analgesia during the menstrual period, without important side effects and with high compliance by the patients.