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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
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- Today we have a free way
to find out if a TENS unit can actually help your pain.
- Sure.
- And if you don't know what TENS unit is,
we're actually gonna explain that too.
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- Right.
You wanna say TENS 'cause if you say the full name,
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- Yeah, we'll do it.
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Okay, what is TENS?
TENS is transcutaneous electrical neuromuscular stimulation.
Mouthful.
But basically what it is,
it's a little electrical device.
This is really a little electrical device,
that actually can provide some stimulation
and it can do one of two things.
One, is what they call the Gate Theory.
And we're gonna go ahead and show it on this board here.
I'm gonna bring this board over.
- The big picture is,
it's gonna help reduce your pain without medication.
- Right.
Especially in this day of age,
of where we're having so much trouble with opioids and such
- We need some good alternatives.
So let's say, you know,
you hurt your thumb here, you know,
you hit your thumb with the hammer,
the classical hammer, right.
- That hurts a lot.
- Yeah.
The pain signal goes up to your brain
and you process it as pain.
- Right, looking at this neurologically, it's pretty basic
but that's a good outlook.
- So when you use a TENS unit, which is electrical,
you know, neuromuscular stimulator unit.
And we're gonna show you some examples.
- Right.
- That's one example right there.
It actually cuts off that pain pathway, it's called gating.
- Right.
- So actually, you'll feel less pain
or maybe no pain at all, depending on how well it works.
- Right.
And oftentimes with this, after the device,
you use it for a half hour, you can turn it off
and it continues to have a similar effect.
- Right, yeah, when the device is no longer working,
the benefit of pain relief.
- Right.
- It can also stimulate your natural endorphins.
- Now you're talking, Bob.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's the
things throughout your body that produces.
- Make you feel good.
- Right.
But there's just no negative side effects.
It's just, you know, like that runner's high.
- Right.
Again, these are great for chronic pain, arthritis.
Again, a great alternative to pain pills.
Anybody who's, you know, having long-term pain,
this is a great device for them.
- Right.
- I think we all said that already, right.
- Yeah.
Carry on Bob.
- Alright, so what iReliev, is the name of this company.
And what they provide, is a free mini wireless TENS unit.
Brad has on right now.
- Right.
- So it's very small device
and as he turns it up,
I think Brad and I were both very surprised
how powerful this is.
- Yeah, it is.
There's an on/off button here, it's very simple.
- [Bob] You see his hand pulling up like that.
He's not doing that.
I mean the machine is doing that.
- Right.
- [Bob] See how his hand is moving?
- Right.
So it's set up at interval, it goes on and off
every few seconds.
And you know, right there, it's on,
I can feel the stimulation,
just feels like pins and needles, little tickling.
But because I have it set on a motor point,
the muscles are actually responding to it.
You know, I could move this to a different part
where the muscles wouldn't do that
if you don't want to have that happen.
And it depends on the location of the pain.
This might be good for a tennis elbow.
- Right, exactly.
Or if you have your shoulder, it's nice because you
can see it's very small.
And you can actually have it underneath your clothing.
And it's a great way to determine, is TENS right for me?
- Right.
- Or for you.
- So literally, this is something, iReliev, it's free.
You'd have to pay for shipping.
- You have to pay for shipping and handling,
which is a minimal charge.
But you get the device for free.
And a lot of people ask, you know,
"Why do they send it to us for free?"
- Right.
- Well they're hoping you're gonna find out it works
and then you're gonna go ahead and upgrade.
- Right.
- To one of their devices.
Because this isn't something you wanna use,
you know, for months.
- Right.
- You're gonna wanna find one of their devices
that you actually could put on and use on a daily basis.
- [Brad] Right.
- Yeah, you know, a lot of 'em come with
the device like this and you put it in your pocket.
It's got leads that go up to the pads.
And the pads can be, you know, again,
underneath the clothing.
- Right.
- It can all be hidden.
- Right.
- You know, I'm gonna kinda talk about the different
generation here, Brad.
So the first device, you know,
the ones that we're used to is, you know,
it's got the device but it comes with batteries.
So you have to always change the batteries.
- [Brad] Right, we have three AAA batteries,
are in there, I believe.
- Yeah.
So then, you know, they went up to the 8080,
which is a device that you can actually recharge.
So you don't have to worry about using batteries,
you can just recharge it.
- [Brad] Sure.
- So that's a nice feature.
So they have the TENS unit
and they also have muscle stimulation.
- Right.
So it's a little stronger unit and this one is, you know,
some people don't need much
and depending on where you put it
but if you really want the muscles to contract,
you need a little more power.
And that's what that one is.
- So like, let's say after you have a stroke
and you're trying to regain some of those muscles.
- Right.
- You can use the muscle stimulator.
Or athletes use the muscle stimulator.
- Right.
- And then we get up to one where
you actually have this unit
but they have no wires.
They actually have the pads that
are separate, on their own.
- Right.
The wireless unit, which is really nice
'cause these wires can be inconvenient.
They get in the way sometimes.
So the wireless one, that's a whole new thing.
I've never heard of those until they came out with it.
- Yeah, these guys, they're on the cutting edge of this,
these TENS unit field.
- Right.
Did you mention the one that has the rechargeable battery?
- Oh, did I skip that one?
- I think so.
- I think I did jump over that.
- Right.
- So yeah, that's one of 'em that actually
has a rechargeable battery and it does the EMS
and the TENS too.
- Right.
- So the electrical muscle.
- So they continue to improve this
and make 'em more convenient, you know,
more powerful, they're gonna last longer.
- But it all starts with the mini TENS.
You know, you can give it a try.
It doesn't need a prescription.
- Right.
- There is a couple of contraindications, you know,
if you have a pacemaker
or if you have a, you know, a defibrillator.
- Right.
- If you're pregnant.
- You have to put it over healthy skin.
- Yeah.
- You don't wanna put it over an area that has a sore
or a rash or something of that nature, it has to be healthy.
- They don't want it on children who are under age 16.
- Sure.
- They don't want to have, you know.
- Right.
- For obvious reasons, so.
- Yeah, you really cannot go wrong.
You can use this, again, free, just for shipping.
And it really is, I mean,
I can attest to it, just as I'm using it right now,
it's got plenty of power to find out if it's gonna work.
You can take it from one area of the body,
put it to another.
I used this, driving, on my back one day,
I drove for a half hour with it on,
it worked out really well.
I'm impressed with it.
I don't impress real easy, Bob, for stuff like this.
- I was surprised too 'cause when they said this, I'm like,
this thing is not gonna be very powerful.
I go, it's gonna give people a bad impression of TENS
because it's not gonna work very well.
- Right.
- But for the little device, it works really well.
- Right.
- And these gonna work better.
- Right.
- I mean 'cause you can cover larger areas.
- The battery on this is one of the little pancake batteries
that, you know, you put in your watch or whatever.
That's why they don't last real long.
That's the biggest difference, I think.
One of the big ones is,
these have much more battery power, longer life,
a little more power.
- Yeah, alright.
- Wow.
- Thanks everybody for watching.
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for.
- A broken heart.
- You know, I don't know if.
No, we couldn't.
- No, that wont work.
- That wouldn't work.
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