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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heinick, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about the top five reasons
you may want to use a TENS unit for your pain.
And we're also gonna talk about a giveaway
which happens to be...
- Another giveaway.
- Well, another TENS unit, do a TENS unit.
- Oh yes. Yeah.
Well we've been giving away so many things lately, Bob.
- It's hard to keep track, isn't it?
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- Sure.
- All right, and we'll tell you what,
which unit we're giving away here, just in a minute.
- All right.
- But let's talk about number one reason
you may wanna try to use a tens unit
is because it's gonna give you some pain relief.
- Right. That's typically why most everyone uses 'em.
- Yeah.
- You know, if you've got chronic pain,
you're on some pain medication, some opioids
and you're getting some bad side effects,
you wanna get off of that.
This is a good go-to option.
- Yeah. Actually Brad, I have a,
I have a patient that we have on right now.
She was in a car accident years ago.
She's got chronic pain, pain all over the place.
And we tried some things,
we tried massage and stuff, made it worse.
- Ooh.
- So the only thing she's liked, we sent her a TENS unit.
- Yeah. - She loves it.
She puts it all over her body, you know, different spots.
- Right. - At different times.
And now her husband's using it.
- Oh.
- Her husband's grabbing it.
So I mean, it doesn't work for everyone.
I would, I think we can agree to that.
That it- - Right.
There's some people that don't tolerate that sensation
but there's other, like me,
I just find it very comforting and it's fun.
- Yeah. It works really well.
So again, it's a great option.
You know, it works two ways.
One, they call the gate theory.
So like when you like hit, let's say you take
a hammer and you hit your thumb.
- Yeah.
- That nerve, the brain sends a,
a signal of pain going up to your brain.
- Right.
- I mean the, the nerve. Yeah.
- The nerve in the thumb.
- Technically speaking.
- So the way this works,
it actually cuts off that pain pathway.
The other thing it does is it
actually stimulates your natural opioids.
- Right. - Your natural endorphins.
So you know that that's a great way
not to have to take unnatural endorphins
or manufactured ones.
- Right. Precisely.
- All right.
Generally, very simple to use.
We've got a video on how to use it.
But they've got videos on that too.
- Exactly.
- You know, you turn it on.
You got, in this case, what you have is you have two pads,
you have the leads and it goes up to the unit
so you can actually,
it's actually pretty portable for that reason.
- [Brad] Right, right.
You put that on your belt
or you can easily put it in your pocket.
This one happens to be one of the newest,
I don't think anybody else has come out with this,
but it's wireless.
It communicates to the pads which I have on my back.
- What are you doing, Brad?
Oh, okay. - [Brad] Yeah.
(men chuckling)
- So he's got two pads on there
and it's wireless like as Brad just said,
the wire you're seeing is his microphone wire.
- Yeah. That, that's for this.
- Yeah. So, you know, it's very cool.
You can stick it anywhere basically
and not have to worry about the leads then in that case.
- Right, and then you could just put this
in your pocket and make adjustments.
We'll show you in a little bit.
- So again, I was, that's really the third reason,
is that it's very mobile.
- Right.
- I mean, so I'm, and we have a lot of people that,
that actually, like you said,
use the ones with the leads and they just,
you can slide, you know, run it up your arm
and hide it through your shirt.
- Right.
- In the pants, pant leg.
Very affordable.
Brad and I are, have been around a long enough time
that we remember when TENS units were very expensive.
- Right. I remember like $700 to get,
you know, this may be 20 years.
- I remember over a thousand.
- Yeah, it could be. He's older than I am.
- Yeah. And I remember when they first came out.
So I mean, these just seem unbelievable to me now,
that how affordable they are.
You start with their lowest end unit.
They actually have a free one that you can try.
But their lowest end unit is the 1313 and it's 49.95.
So about $50.
- Sure.
- And then it goes up all the way to the 5050,
which is the wireless one here, and that's 190 or so, 189.
- Sure.
- So, but again, you know, if you find out you like it,
you might try a lower end one.
- Right.
- If you find out you're using it all the time,
maybe go ahead and beef up to the better one.
- Right.
You'll know because it'll be worth it to not have to deal
with that wire back to wherever the location is.
- Well, the other thing,
on the lowest model too, they have batteries.
- Yes.
- So you have to keep replacing the batteries,
where these all charge up.
And they have some middle level ones too
that that can be recharged.
The other one, some of these that are higher level ones,
also have EMS, which is a muscle stimulator.
I, you know, I don't know if you need that so much for pain,
but if you need to build up some muscle after surgery
or something like that, they work well for that.
- Yeah. That's kind of a whole nother category.
- Right.
- They just, there's more power to 'em
and they get a little more stimulation
to make the muscles contract.
- And yeah, number five reason
that you may wanna go ahead and get one of these is,
is they're safe.
You know, there's no drugs, there's no invasive surgeries.
You know, it's easy to try.
They do have things, you know, like if you're pregnant,
they're, you know...
You obviously don't wanna put it over the fetus.
- Right.
- You don't wanna put it over the carotid arteries.
- If you have a pacemaker,
you certainly don't want to use it.
- Right.
- Like the skin quality where you have it,
has to be healthy skin.
If you have some open wounds or unhealthy skin or rash,
or whatever, then you wouldn't wanna do it there either.
- They don't have it for headaches.
- Right.
- Which they used to do, they used to try it on heads.
- Yeah. - I remember that.
And they, you don't put it on your eyes
and stuff like that obviously.
So, so there's a lot of reasons.
So the two that they're,
they're gonna give away four TENS units.
- Okay.
- So you wanna sign up
and get possibly a free one out of this.
They're gonna give away two of these, the 770s.
And this is, again, you know, we got the leads
and the pads and this one does have batteries
but a very powerful unit, still works really well.
And then they're gonna give two of the, you know,
the the refined ones.
The 8080s. - Yeah.
- 8080s. - The wireless one.
- Oh no, the 5050s.
Yeah, 5050s.
(Brad chuckling)
I got it.
It's 5050s.
- That's all right.
- So they're the wireless ones and the,
you know, they're creme de la creme, I guess you could say.
Right? - Creme de la creme?
- That's usually like the best.
- The Cadillac?
- The cream of the top.
- Oh, sure. Sure, Bob.
- So I don't know.
I'm making that up probably but...
All right, so go ahead and sign up
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- Did we already pull the thing out?
- Yeah, we did all that.
Yeah. - Yeah. Good.
- All right. Thanks for watching.
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