Interferential Current for pregnant

[Mairi]

The risk of miscarriage in the first trimester of pregnancy is fairly high anyway, that it would be very easy for a pregnant women who miscarried and had recently had Interferential to suggest a causal relationship between the two and you would leave yourself wide open to a law suit.

I wouldn't use interferential as a treatment modality anyway, but I certainly wouldn't use it in a pregnant women for exactly the reasons said.
I do not believe you could clinically reason that it would be severely detrimental to the patient if IFT was not used for a shoulder pain and this I think is the key to the argument.
As has already been said, surely the risk of miscarriage (evidence or no evidence) cannot be outweighed by a need for pain relief- there are plenty of alternative treatment choices out there, even if it is a case of no intervention during the few months of pregnancy.

This is similar to the arguments for ACP in pregnancy which I researched recently, again a serious lack of research but ethically you can't do this kind of research on pregnant women!

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[Physio-Oms]

According to my knwledge if the treatment of IFT is being away from the treatment area. Its is Ok to treat. There is no guraantee that the fetus will get mutated, if thats the worry here.
But....if the patients hx states that she has had miscarriages before.......dont bother of treating the shoulder with IFT. Its not worth the risk!
Good luck.
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[stephanotis]

Hi I found out yesterday I am pregnant-- 5 weeks and 5 days. They saw the flicker of a heartbeat; however, I also go to a Chiropractor for Siatic pain. My Chiropractor uses an interferential on my lower back and has for the past two weeks. Yesterday, when I told him the news he said we should stop the interferential treatment. I am now very uneasy and began to research this and stumbled upon this website. I see that there is a possibility of miscarriage-- are there other possible problems, retardation, deformities, etc?

Many thanks for your feedback!