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TENS: SAFE DRUG FREE PAIN RELIEF

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What back pain do you have?

Everyone suffers PAIN sometimes in their life.

Men and women are equally affected but you can bet that people who do have a bad back and they talk about it, no one wants to listen after the first minute so most people male and female just put up with it.

They visit a physician have an operation, most you speak to say the recovery process is long and arduous.

Speaking from experience about bad backs, my complaint was a result of falling from a water tank when I was 10 years old. How I didn't break my neck is still between me and the fate doctors.

Now that I have reached the new 40's eh you know fifty something but who's counting, its like when the car does over 100,000 klms every thing starts to fall off.

Well a bad back can be a pain in the you know what or you can wear a TENS machine to help with the pain process, its about managing your pain, whatever works I say.

What causes lower back pain?
Bad Backs generally occurs most often between ages 30 and 50, due in part to the aging process but also as a result of sedentary life styles with too little (sometimes punctuated by too much) exercise. Accidents involving motor vehicles or disc disease or spinal degeneration.

Conditions that may cause low back pain and require treatment by a physician or other health specialist include:

Bulging disc (also called protruding, herniated, or ruptured disc). The intervertebral discs are under constant pressure. As discs degenerate and weaken, cartilage can bulge or be pushed into the space containing the spinal cord or a nerve root, causing pain. Studies have shown that most herniated discs occur in the lower, lumbar portion of the spinal column.
A much more serious complication of a ruptured disc is cauda equina syndrome, which occurs when disc material is pushed into the spinal canal and compresses the bundle of lumbar and sacral nerve roots. Permanent neurological damage may result if this syndrome is left untreated.

Sciatica is a condition in which a herniated or ruptured disc presses on the sciatic nerve, the large nerve that extends down the spinal column to its exit point in the pelvis and carries nerve fibers to the leg. This compression causes shock-like or burning low back pain combined with pain through the buttocks and down one leg to below the knee, occasionally reaching the foot. In the most extreme cases, when the nerve is pinched between the disc and an adjacent bone, the symptoms involve not pain but numbness and some loss of motor control over the leg due to interruption of nerve signaling. The condition may also be caused by a tumor, cyst, metastatic disease, or degeneration of the sciatic nerve root.

Spinal degeneration from disc wear and tear can lead to a narrowing of the spinal canal. A person with spinal degeneration may experience stiffness in the back upon awakening or may feel pain after walking or standing for a long time.
Spinal stenosis related to congenital narrowing of the bony canal predisposes some people to pain related to disc disease.

Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease marked by progressive decrease in bone density and strength. Fracture of brittle, porous bones in the spine and hips results when the body fails to produce new bone and/or absorbs too much existing bone. Women are four times more likely than men to develop osteoporosis. Caucasian women of northern European heritage are at the highest risk of developing the condition.

Skeletal irregularities produce strain on the vertebrae and supporting muscles, tendons, ligaments, and tissues supported by spinal column. These irregularities include scoliosis, a curving of the spine to the side; kyphosis, in which the normal curve of the upper back is severely rounded; lordosis, an abnormally accentuated arch in the lower back; back extension, a bending backward of the spine; and back flexion, in which the spine bends forward.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and multiple “tender points,” particularly in the neck, spine, shoulders, and hips. Additional symptoms may include sleep disturbances, morning stiffness, and anxiety.

Spondylitis refers to chronic back pain and stiffness caused by a severe infection to or inflammation of the spinal joints. Other painful inflammations in the lower back include osteomyelitis (infection in the bones of the spine) and sacroiliitis (inflammation in the sacroiliac joints).

Most people who have had these problems or are still being treated by them believe TENS has given them either temporary pain relief or they rely heavily on the tens machine in stead of using drugs.

But I have spoken with people who are so wacked with pain they just need something a little more than just you average pain killers.

Back Pain and Tens Machines go hand in hand and I have sold many machines to people from all over the country who swear by them and admit that pain killers are only a temporary fix but with the tens you can wear it all day and it just assists in dealing with going to the shops , out for lunch with friends and best of all you wear it under your clothes and people are none the wiser.

If you are unsure about using tens please see your physcian or physiotherapist.

Some of the information above was courtesy of The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Posted by Peter Thornton at 2:45 PM

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