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TENS: SAFE DRUG FREE PAIN RELIEF

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What stages of healing can we use TENS?
1. acute stage
2. sub-acute
3. chronic

What conditions would benefit from TENS?

Arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Cervical spondylosis
Low back pain
Tendonitis/Bursitis
Carpal Tunnel syndrome
Peripheral nerve injuries
Phantom limb pain
Post operative pain
Spinal cord disorders
Pain in the terminally ill
Labour pain
Back pain
Neck pain
Sciatica
Headaches
Knee Pain
Migraines
Arthritis
Osteoporosis
Carpel Tunnel
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tennis Elbow

How often do we use TENS?
According to the Canadian technology assessment paper
in which the authors surveyed TENS use across Canada.
After surveying 50 hospitals with 200 or more beds they
estimated over 450,000 uses of TENS take place in Canadian
hospitals each year with widespread use in physiotherapy acute pain (used by 93% of hospitals), labour and delivery (43%) chronic pain (96%).

How does TENS reduce pain perception?
There are 4 theories about the physiological effects of TENS:
1. Gate control theory
2. Opiate-mediated control theory
3. Local vasodilatation of blood vessels in ischemic tissues
4. Stimulation of acupuncture points causes a sensory
analgesia effect

Does TENS increase blood flow?
Low-frequency TENS applied above the motor threshold
significantly increases local cutaneous blood flow.


How does TENS reduce spasticity?
A normal stretch reflex is modulated, inhibited or facilitate by the higher centers of
the brain; but if this connection is damaged, spasticity is the result. Spasticity is
therefore mostly due to an excess of impulses from a-motor neurons due to a SCI
or brain injury.
TENS is thought to reduce spasticity by reducing / inhibiting excessive a-motor
neuron activity.

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Your TENS machine is a registered medical device and is listed with the Therapeutic Goods Administration. Listing number 128036.

With this in mind you can claim up to 100% from selected Australian private health funds. See separate information on this website for rebates.
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