TENS: Stimulates Transdermal Nerves
What is the treatment of electrodermal nerve stimulation (TENS)?
Treatment of percutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) involves the use of low-voltage electric current to treat pain.
Electrodes or means to power into the body:
- placed on the body at the position of pain
- placed on the body at the acupuncture point (based on the meridian system) - acupuncture theory by Chinese medicine
Electric currents prevent pain receptors that are sent from nerves to the brain. A patient will receive a small, battery-operated TENS for home use. In most cases, the doctor, physical therapist or acupuncturist will adjust the device to the correct settings. The provider shows the patient how to use the device before sending it home with a TENS device.
What is TENS therapy used for treatment?
TENS therapy can be used to treat both chronic pain (prolonged) and acute pain (short term).
In addition, TENS therapy used for treatment is:
- Problems of joints, bones or muscles related to osteoporosis
- Joint problems, bones or muscles related to fibromyalgia
- Tendinitis (muscle tissue inflammation)
- Inflammation of burs (inflammation of gasket filled with fluid-filled joints)
- Neck pain
- Labor pain
- Pain from Cancer
Does TENS work? Proof
It is not as scientific as it looks, but it may not be useless: interesting feelings can always accomplish something when presented properly to the patient. The feeling of tingling and vibration can raise your pain, distracting its nervous system.
It can be said that TENS stimulates the behavior of real cell tissue (healing), not just sensation.
In theory, setting the right position and frequency, can make all the difference, making the subject become controversial constantly, even though most TENS obviously don't stand out as magic or magic strange..
There is not much evidence that TENS helps relieve pain and surprisingly, it is thoroughly studied when TENS is taking place as a hot trend. Even so, some experts are still optimistic that the TENS side for the right kind of pain can still be good medicine.
For decades, to date is the most common form (and domestication) of electrotherapy or neuromodulation that has penetrated the electrical nerve stimulator (TENS). Other types of electrical stimulation are also interesting, and more promising, such as deeper stimulation - zapping the brain and spinal cord. This is an overview of all forms of neurological treatment with a strong focus on TENS for pain.
TENS has been a therapeutic factor in physiotherapy and chronic pain clinics for decades. There are many TENS units that are consumed in the market. It has a large number of followers, including suppliers and customers.
But people will believe anything! (You may have noticed this.) Much like ultrasound, this old-school techy therapy definitely isn’t all it’s cracked up to be: the effectiveness of TENS [NHS] “is based on individual experience rather than scientific evidence,” which seems odd for such a popular therapy. But it’s probably not entirely useless — interesting sensations, presented in the right way to patients, can always get something done (sensation-enhanced placebo).
- Dr. Steven Novella, Nerve Stimulation for Relaxation
These electrode pads provide adequate charge delivery not just with efficacy but also with safety, preventing the incidence of burns, shock and other injuries. The right amount of charge delivery makes the therapy more effective and achieves the results in lesser time and brings relief to the user almost instantly.
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