TENS machine

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Wow, they work.

Had back pain,
borrowed a TENS machine,
gave myself an electric shock, [&:]
no pain.

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[Serious Questions]

Yes Steve they most certainly do work...

stormdeva x

 

[soccergurl1994]

more commonly used in labour but hey i dont suppose you will get to figure that one!
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[Pompal 09.]

Me? - Ooooh I doubt it.
But the wife? - Quite possibly.

Worth bearing in mind though for the future.

Thanks for the tip.

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[irishgreenc16]

i was told that pain is a warning sign and should be investigated rather than eliminated via a 'quick fix' therefore i would like to know whether you knew why you had the pain and what you are going to do about prvention of the same occurance?
thank you for any info

 

[warlock121]

I would have to agree with Wendy, that pain is a warning sign, whether it be an early sign in acute injury or a late sign of something more insideous.

TENS does nothing more than to confuse the nervous system & brain into thinking that the pain stimulus isn't there & may in some cases reduce some of the muscle spasm. The latter being the more useful, although still doesn't address the underlying cause.

This symptomatic relief may be valid i.e. in the case of giving birth, but low back pain during & after pregancy should not need to be tolerated & an osteopath should be able to help with treatment and advice in most cases.

With regular use & over time TENS tends to become less effective, whilst the underlying problem has become a chronic (long term) condition, which typically are more difficult to treat and recover from.

Suggest taking a look in the Back Pain Forum under Ailments for some of the possibilities of back pain. [sm=scratchchin.gif]

Andrew.

 

[Pompal 09.]

I agree also that any pain should of course be investigated. However, there are many people (myself included) who have had investigations and anything critical has been ruled out, although the results are inconclusive. Having tried a number of things over many years, none of them giving me any long term benefits, TENS does have its place.

However, I do find it uncomfortable to use when walking around and as I'm rarely sitting in one place for longer than about ten minutes, I don't use it very often.

Lesley

 

[Bunz]

When I orginally had back pain, I went to a see physiotherapist who I have been to before. He adjusted my lower back and said it would be fine in a few days but to borrow a TENS machine from him. I did and it worked better than I thought. There was no serious damage that was causing pain, just that I had moved awkwardly one morning and twisted when I shouldn't have had. Everything is now fine.
However, you do bring up some good points, get things checked out by someone who knows what should go where and when.

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[Neo]

The question remains - why did you suffer from back pain in the first place?
If it was due to an unfortunate movement and perhaps a vertebrae out of alignment; I would still like to investigate to find out the underlying cause behind that. How come that all these years when you were moving around nothing happened and then all of a sudden, one day the body 'caved in'?

What I am getting at is what lyes behind a structural problem?
As a Kinesiologist I would like to find out whether your systems is weakend or under stress due to a nutritional deficiency (perhaps a lack of minerals which might make the muscles either side of the vertebrae flacid and give rise to the opportunity to become misaligned), or a food sensitivity or a particular emotion you are dealing/not dealing with which causes a lack of energy supplied to the bespoked muscles?

Anyway, the list is long. I hope you have had a chance to get it investigated thoroughly, otherwise the chances for the problem to reoccur are greater.

Good luck

 

[Sezza]

I did get it checked out, which is why I did as was instructed and borrowed a tens machine from a qualified professional physiotherapist.

So now realise that I missed a vital piece of information in my first post of this thread.

Had back pain,
saw a back specialist and
borrowed a TENS machine,
gave myself an electric shock,
no pain.

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[Lamia]

heck, and you thought you would just put in a simple post! no such thing


that'll teach you!!!!!

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[Phoebe]

Indeed.