Friday, February 10, 2012

Treatment For Pain With A Tens Unit

By Jerri Segal


Pain relief using a TENS unit is proven to be a non invasive and drug free means of getting real relief for your severe and chronic pain. If you're like many who can't stand taking pain medication this may be the perfect solution for you. Ask your doctor about this, they'll be able to give you more information and tell you in detail how it works.

This drug free pain treatment by way of Electro therapy is a great option that is a safe one, in controlling the pain you are in. Some people just can't take pain medication and so this solution would be a great one for them. An electric current is produced through the device to stimulate your nerves for therapeutic reason. This relieves most or all of the pain in your body.

Empi devices provide a non-invasive approach to drug free pain relief. Empi products are effective and proven therapy devices that allow patients to have their treatment at home for pain. This device supplies an electric current that helps to stimulate nerves for therapy purposes.

Electrodes are put on the body, the doctor will tell you exactly where to place them. They use batteries, usually, not an electrical outlet. It is a high frequency which produces the contractions that take pain away. It's a good feeling that actually soothes the pain.

Unlike taking certain medications for pain, this device has no side effects. And the way that it stimulates the muscles is an awesome and comforting type of treatment. It can give a great deal of peace of mind knowing you wont have to be on medications for a long period of time now. And this is an important thing because as we've all heard, pain medication can hinder your ability to drive or operate machinery and it even makes it hard to focus at work.

There are different types available, one specific device is for your knee, for those suffering knee pain. It's a brace type that goes around your whole knee but you can still bend at the knee. With a one touch switch it turns on and you're on your way to pain relief. It fits under your long pants or dress and if you're at work, no one would even know you're wearing it.

This device that's called a TENS Unit has electrical pulses that are made to stimulate the part of your body that's in pain. This is a safe and quite effective treatment that's becoming very famous for chronic and severe pain sufferers. Everyone hears now a days that pain killers are not just very addicting but that they are dangerous. This is a much better way of becoming pain free, it's a safer way.




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