How to Use a Tens Machine

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TENS Unit Pain Relief – How my TENS Unit was a Saviour!

Do you experience REAL back pain? Does everything seem a bit more challenging? Do you spend nights tossing and turning, get into that golden position, to only get woken up an hour later by your alarm? Are you now not only fighting back pain but depression too?…A TENS unit became my savior! After a few sessions with this easy to use, compact, self controlled machine, my pain decreased considerably.

Have you ever experienced REAL back pain? Those who have, will empathize with how debilitating it can really be.

A day in the life of a back pain sufferer…Nights are spent tossing and turning trying to find a position that doesn’t hurt and once you finally do find a position (which you have been in a thousand times before, during that same night) you sleep for an hour then the alarm goes to get up to go to work. May sound like no big deal but getting no restful, rejuvenating sleep means your body hurts even more and if you hadn’t noticed, lack of sleep constantly, is actually very frustrating and doesn’t put you in the best of moods!

So the alarm goes and then the next challenge occurs…and the next and the next…getting out of bed, getting into the shower, getting dressed, getting in the car, going to work and sitting at the computer…oh and did I forget trying to socialize…

Basically everything is impaired…you end up hobbling all over the place due to the shooting pains down your legs, cant carry things because of the huge aches in your shoulders…you get frustrated and frankly, downright depressed…so now you have to fight off anxiety and depression as well as a very painful back!

So…how did I get my life back on track?

A friend introduced me to one of the most underrated best gadgets I have ever come across – a TENS unit! This small but extremely effective machine is easy to use and totally affordable by anyone’s standards. You put the electrodes on your back (or wherever the pain is), hold the TENS unit in your hand and adjust the settings to whatever is good for you. I found 60-80 pulses p/second was amazing for me, but the really informative booklets that come with them basically give you all the information you need to ensure your TENS unit works just the way you need it to.

How does it work? Essentially, it’s like acupuncture but without any of those awful pins being stuck into you. Have it on a low frequency setting and pressure points under your skin are stimulated encouraging endorphin production; natural pain relieving chemicals produced by your own body. Have it on a high frequency and these stimulating messages are sent faster to your brain than the pain in your back; the TENS unit message inhibits the back pain message from coming in…interesting huh!

Anyway…I tried this TENS unit of my friend’s and it was incredible….and to cut a long story short I have been using one ever since.

I use it before bed, whilst eating my breakfast, at work, in that uncomfortable chair in the restaurant so I actually CAN enjoy my evening out with friends…it truly has made my life so much more pleasant and the pain relief can last for many hours and sometimes days…plus, it actually feels quite nice when it’s on which is a bonus!
Honestly, this was the best thing I ever did!

I did research and found that Body Clock’s TENS units are great value for money with a great range so you can choose the best one for you.

http://www.bodyclock.net
Body Clock website

By Alli Sturgess
Published: 1/30/2009