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Patients received either conventional physical therapy alone (control group) or conventional physical therapy plus TENMS (TENMS group) for 10 days. Myopathy was assessed histologically (by needle biopsy of the quadriceps muscles) on the 4th and 14th days of the intensive care unit stay.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Of the 68 patients who completed the study, 27 (40%) had myopathy on the 14th day: 11 patients in the TENMS group (9 mild, 1 moderate, and 1 severe) and 16 patients in the control group (13 mild, 2 moderate, and 1 severe). Patients who progressed from mild to moderate or severe myopathy between the 4th and 14th days had significantly lower body mass index (P = .001) and longer time periods with inadequate nutrition (P = .049) compared with the other patients. Mean (SD) Rankin scale scores at 6 months were 3.2 (1.8) and 3.8 (2.1) in the TENMS and control groups, respectively (P = .09).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>TENMS had no significant impact on myopathy in the critically ill patients in this study.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4037\/ajcc2018311","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,1]],"date-time":"2018-11-01T08:15:24Z","timestamp":1541060124000},"page":"495-503","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation on Myopathy in Intensive Care Patients"],"prefix":"10.4037","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Evangelia","family":"Koutsioumpa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Evangelia Koutsioumpa is a physiotherapist, Athina Theochari is a nurse, and Dimitra Bagka and Efstratios Manoulakas are physicians, intensive care unit, University General Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. 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