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I have been in the EMS/TENS field for 25 years
. If you suffer from back pain in any way , you
must try these units for long term ,drug free
pain management. It is truly incredible what they
can do .
Listen: If You Suffer From:
Sciatica or Sciatica Symptoms (pain and/or numbness
going down the leg to the knee or foot)
Acute Low Back Pain
Hip Pain or Sacroiliac Pain -
Sports Injury or Work Injury to the Lower Back
Nagging Achy Low Back Pain
Chronic Low Back Pain
Lumbago
Sprain/Strain of the Lower Back
Disc Herniation (Slipped Disc)
Arthritis
Stress and Lower Back Pain
Numbing Lower Back Pain
Muscle Spasms
These units are what you need to Reduce or Eliminate
your low back pain.
Look: at what they Can Help:
Reduce or Eliminate Chronic Lower Back Pain
Sports Injuries to the Lower Back
Sleep Though The Night Without Pain
Reduce or Eliminate Sciatica or Sciatica Symptoms
Gain Control Of Your Health
Work Pain-Free
Do The Activities You Love Pain-Free
Walk or Run Pain-Free
Sit or Lie Down Pain-Free
Reduce or Eliminate Lower Back Muscle Spasms
Reduce or Eliminate Nagging Achy Low Back Pain
· Lumbar Spine Rehabilitation Exercises
· Acupressure techniques
· Chiropractic techniques
· Nutrition Remedies
· Homeopathic Remedies
· Yoga Exercises
· And much more.
All our units aredesigned to reduce or eliminate
your lower back pain.
ELECTRICAL PAIN RELIEF
Electrical
Pain Relief is achieved by applying a treatment
known as TENS, whilst the equipment used to apply
TENS therapy is known as a TENS system. TENS is
able to "switch-off" or considerably reduce the
feeling of pain. It does this by working in two
ways.
 The
first is by sending masses of sensory messages
to the brain, which becomes flooded with sensory
feelings that are perceived to be of more importance
than the feeling of pain. This is commonly known
as a 'Gating Effect' (a metaphorical pain control
gate is closed, "locking out" the pain).
The
second way is caused by a hormonal release of
Encephalins and Endorphins due to a raised level
of brain activity. Encephalins are quickly released,
but only remain active for a short period. Endorphins
are slowly released and may take up to 30 minutes
to take effect, but remain active for a long 8
to 36 hour period. An endorphin release has a
strong influence on controlling chronic pain,
as it can manage intractable pain that does not
respond to non-opiate medication.
Modern
TENS devices can effectively treat pain using
a mixture of a high pulse rate stimulation used
for a gating effect and an Encephalins release,
with a low pulse rate used for an endorphin release.
Acute
Pain Relief
A
Gating Effect* happens to an individual when they
are pre-occupied with other things that are happening
to them. These may exert a stronger perceptive effect,
which then reduces their perception of pain.
Electrical
therapy to alleviate acute pain is used for periods
of application up to 20 minutes duration, at a
rate of 100 pulses per second, applied to regions
of pain. This causes a Gating Effect, or a blocking
of the signals of pain travelling from the area
of injury to the brain. A gating effect provides
pain relief for a short period of approximately
2 hours.
 Sometimes,
an exception to short treatments is needed for
relief from very strong, acute pain. For this
purpose, extended treatment periods are needed
to sustain a strong gating effect, and if necessary
the treatment can be continuously applied until
the pain has subsided. The rapid relief from pain
that is achieved enables early mobilizing exercises,
which removes the pressure on nerve tissue to
quickly eliminate the cause of the pain. i.e.
- a severe attack of acute low back pain.
*
Gating Effect - This term is used to explain the
blocking of pain perception, when a metaphorical
"Pain Control Gate" shuts off pain perception
from registering in the Central Nervous System
(CNS).
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 Chronic
Pain Management
To
achieve an optimised TENS application for the management
of chronic pain, it should be used for periods of
application from 40 minutes up to 'Around-the-Clock'
periods, at below 20 pulse per second, applied to
the regions of pain and ideally, one or more regions
of maximum sensory feeling. This causes an Endorphin
release, which raises the level of endorphin's present
in the blood stream. A
highly elevated endorphin release provides pain
relief for a period of 8-36 hours. For adequate
pain relief use 1-2 hour doses, which may be required
to be repeated 3-4 times weekly to 3 times daily,
at a low to medium pulse rate. Sometimes an endorphin
release is not strong enough, or is slow to take
effect. Using a high pulse rate and then applying
continuous stimulation will help to remedy this.
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The
Medication Effect of Endorphins
An
endorphin release has a slow acting effect. TENS
devices are applied at the low rate of body movements,
which is at a pulse rate of less than seven pulses
per second. The introduced electrical stimulation
activates neural potentials within C-type sensory
nerve fibres, which transmit at the slow rate of
the autonomic nervous system, to activate the body's
main pain defense mechanism. C-type stimulation
requires a long application time of twenty-five
minutes to two hours to reach a maximum level of
endorphin release, but because endorphins remain
at effective levels in the blood stream for extended
periods, a pain relief period of up to thirty-six
hours may be achieved. Sustained
stimulation at low levels of pulse intensity,
at a low pulse rate has the strongest effect on
managing chronic nagging pain. Experience has
shown that for the management of chronic pain,
an endorphin release is by far the most effective
application of TENS. Endorphins flow through the
circulatory system acting like pain medication,
inhibiting pain message transmission at nerve
junctions throughout the body. Because the analgesic
effect is distributed within the blood stream,
relief is also achieved from other aches and pains,
as well as the primary pain for which TENS was
applied.
It
is worth noting that morphine is a clone of endorphin
and acts on the same reception centre in the CNS.
The strong pain management effect of morphine
is also available from endorphins, which have
a more powerful pain management effect than non-opiate
medication.
An
endorphin release works similar in effect to pharmaceutical
medication so repeated doses of TENS, three times
daily (like medication) can often be required.
The level of Endorphins may be stimulated to a
three-fold level of normal concentration. These
concentrated levels remain in the blood stream
for longer periods.
To
simultaneously achieve both a gating effect and
an endorphin release the stimulation is applied
at a modulated (changing frequency) high-low pulse
rate. This modulation is not as easily adapted
to as a constant rate of stimulation.
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Unlearning
Pain
If,
during a course of treatment, the pain messages
are switched off or broken often enough (with an
endorphin release and/or a gating effect), this
new state of reduced pain slowly becomes the norm.
This may produce prolonged relief lasting weeks,
months or more. This
is a complex mechanism, and is poorly understood,
although it does appear that with repeated doses
of TENS applied prior to the return of the pain,
there is a sustained loss of the of pain perception.
This perception is transmitted to the brain in
the ascending sensory neural tracts in the dorsal
columns* of the spinal cord.
After
a course of treatment with TENS, the body can
be 'reprogrammed' so that pain is no longer perceived
- it has been taught to "unlearn the pain".
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