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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- New wireless TENS for pain relief
can treat two locations at once or more.
- Right. - Right?
- It does go up and we'll get into that
in just a little bit but this is exciting, Bob.
- I think that they came out with this just
within the last year, didn't they?
This particular company I believe.
- I believe yes it does.
It's exciting for me because it works well.
- Yeah, it does.
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- [Brad] The breather.
- The breather, so in case you're having trouble
with sleep apnea or asthma or COPD
this thing works really well for that
and it's a little simple device to use.
- Right, very simple.
- Brad, take it away.
- TENS, what does T-E-N-S mean?
Transcutaneous Electrical...
- Electrical Neuromuscular
or Nerve Stimulation.
It's either one.
Neuromuscular or nerve stimulation.
- What it's doing, it's using
a very very low amount of electrical current
passing through your skin to create something
called the gate theory so that it masks, so to speak,
masks the pain so you don't feel it.
Particularly people with chronic pain
and they're having problems taking pain medication
or they don't want to take pain medication
as side-effects or whatever the case may be
it can be an excellent source for pain relief.
- This actually stimulates your natural opioids too.
- Sure, yep.
- It works on really
two levels. - Sure, right.
- You can actually get somebody after
it's been on for a while, you take it off
you still could be getting some pain relief from that
for a couple hours.
- As a matter of a fact we're gonna talk about some
experiences with this.
There are some things I just want to go into.
There are some precautions on there
some people who definitely do not want to use a TENS unit.
If you have a pacemaker, you're not a candidate.
If you're pregnant, if you have fragile skin
and if the pads when they stick on your skin--
- Actually tear your skin.
- Yeah, usually it's older people
that may have a issue with that.
- There's a whole bunch of precautions that you can look
on their website that they go over,
but those are probably three of the bigger ones.
- Right and the other ones, there's a lot of them
but they're rare to most people.
The vast majority of people will--
- Most people can use it.
- Right, exactly, I don't know if we want to talk about
the gate theory, Bob, as far as how a TENS works
and you do a pretty good quick explanation for it.
- Again, your brain.
Let's say you bump your finger, you hit your finger.
- Right.
- It's gonna send a pain signal up the nerve chain,
up to your brain,
and basically what the TENS unit is trying to do
is cut off that pain pathway, in a sense.
Mask it otherwise.
It's stimulating one nerve so that you feel that nerve
more than you feel the other nerve.
- One thing, the analogy, assisted analogy I say,
if you burn your finger, to make it feel better
like on the stove, you run it under cold water.
It makes it feel better, you feel the cold water.
- You're flooding the system there, the nerve system there.
- It may not be exactly the same technically
but it's a way to think about it.
What we're gonna use is TENS,
they've been around for many years
but now they're much cheaper
than they used to be 20, 30 years ago.
- Way cheaper.
- And now they're come out with wireless TENS.
- Wireless and also rechargeable.
That's a big one to me too
because before you had to keep replacing the batteries.
They still have those types, on the lowest end
but this one actually recharges and it's wireless.
- And you just hook it up to your USB port on a computer.
You can do it in your car as well.
This is what the unit looks like.
This is from iReliev.
We used a lot of different TENS units over the years
and we find we're really happy with this.
- [Bob] Yeah, very very well made and also easy to use
in a sense, there's a little learning curve.
- And a nice thing about this company
you can email them, you can call them on the phone
and they have assistants if you're having problems.
- They'll help you out.
- You bet.
Here now, this is the pod they call that
where you connect up the stem pads to
and this is the size of it.
It's only about maybe a half inch and
a inch and a half, two inches in diameter.
Very light and here's the pad.
You simply snap it on like so.
- [Bob] There you go. - There we go.
We're gonna do two locations.
Now last week I actually pulled my hamstring
on my right leg and I've got a chronic pain with my back
if I abuse it which lately with snow shoveling and stuff.
- It's fired things up.
- Yeah, fired things up a little bit.
I had some pain in my hamstring and my low back
and so I treated both locations at the same time.
No problems, no wires.
And actually while I was treating it,
I got a little project at my house.
I'm putting trim up around some door,
not any lifting or anything but I'm squatting
getting up and down
back and forth to the garage
and I did the whole thing while I was doing (mumbles).
- That's why that was a good test
is because you're doing really functional things
that involve a lot of movement and things stuck in place
and they still felt fine.
- We're just gonna go through how this actually works
and how to set it up and how I did it.
Now with the pod, it's important to do this
particularly if you're gonna put this on your back.
Make sure you turn the pod on first
and you'll see the little light.
Can you see that light light up?
Little pretty blue light.
- So you hold it for a couple seconds and it turns on.
- Right, couple seconds.
- It's not just a push, it's a hold.
- If you put it on your back and then push it on
there's nobody to help you, it's hard to see the light
unless you get a mirror.
Bob, why don't you put that now.
I already have one on my quadriceps.
I don't have any on my hamstring because it was easier
for videos to put on my quad string.
I'm gonna turn this one on, there we go.
That one's on, that one's on.
Bob's gonna help me out, and if at home
you are doing a back pain, it is a little easier
to have someone put it on for obvious reasons
but you could do it by yourself.
- I'm gonna go right along the paraspinals here.
- [Brad] There you go and that's typically where
my back pain is on the right side.
You guessed good Bob.
- [Bob] I did well.
- Say no more.
I'm gonna need my glasses for this
and I'm gonna get up a little closer
so that Liz can see now.
I'm gonna turn this on, push the on button.
Hold it for a couple seconds.
Visible?
- [Bob] Brad, on my right this is just TENS
this is not EMS right?
- [Brad] This does have EMS.
- [Bob] So EMS, electrical muscle stimulator.
It can actually stimulate muscle too for strengthening.
- [Brad] And for recovery.
- [Bob] And for recovery, so it has both.
Really this is the deluxe unit that carries it all.
You see the TENS flashing right now
which means...
- [Brad] He's butting in.
- [Bob] I'm jumping in, it seemed like you were
stalling a little bit.
The TENS is flashing right now.
You could hit the up and down button
and actually go to EMS and that's what he's doing right now.
It goes up to EMS, it toggles between the two.
Alright Brad, take it away.
- [Brad] We're on TENS, I'd say it's good though.
I definitely needed help.
Now we're gonna set the mode and I'm gonna hit set
and now it's flashing, it's on P6.
There's eight different categories you can
treat yourself with and it tells you a list.
It'll tell you what the sensation is
and if you have chronic pain, acute pain, arthritic pain,
it'll help you out and tell you which one to use.
- [Bob] And I would recommend that you try them
because it's one thing to have it described to you
but if you actually feel it you can see
which one works the best for you.
- [Brad] And I know P3 is the one I like.
It's a constant source.
- [Bob] But you can do P6 right now Brad remember?
Because we're gonna stimulate the muscle.
- [Brad] That's right, I'm gonna go to P6
just because for this demonstration.
- [Bob] We want to show how well it works
and this one demonstrates the best.
- [Brad] Then you hit set again, it goes to time.
We're gonna leave it at 30 minutes.
It goes up to 60 minutes, down to five minutes,
in five minute intervals,
and then we hit set again and now--
- [Bob] And now you're on the intensity right?
- [Brad] Intensity.
And then it goes up to 25.
- [Bob] Wow.
- [Brad] Right, that's pretty high.
- [Bob] You'll never get up to 25.
- [Brad] I've been going on between 5 and 10.
- [Bob] Yeah, if you get up to 25 you're not human
you must be a robot.
- [Brad] So right now, I can feel it.
- [Bob] You're going up to 12, wow brad.
- [Brad] Now this one kind of ramps up and down.
- [Bob] Oh, it does.
So you're feeling it, or not?
- [Brad] Yep, and then once you get it set,
you could hit set and then that locks it.
- [Bob] Sure.
- [Brad] Now it'll start timing down
as 30 will go down to 30.
When I was using--
- [Bob] 30 will go down to 29.
- 29, all the way down to zero,
and then times out, turns off all by itself
and then often times, and in my case it was the case
it continued to offer pain relief through the system.
- [Bob] Right, stimulate the natural opioids.
- Opioids, endorphins.
- [Bob] Endorphins, right. - Right.
We gotta keep it right.
Okay, Bob, wWhy don't you hang on to that.
Now this transmitter will work.
Well I've heard from the factory 20, 30 feet away.
And we had tried here and you were about 20 feet away.
- About 20 feet, I'm gonna walk away 20 feet right now.
- Why don't you turn it off first, Bob.
And what we're gonna do is pull it up
so you can see I'm treating my quad as if I had--
- [Bob] I'm gonna take it all the way down.
- [Brad] A strain in my right quadricep.
- [Bob] Did I turn it down?
- [Brad] Yep.,I don't feel anything Bob.
So you can see the light is on.
- [Bob] Alright, I'm gonna walk away.
So how far am I here Brad?
- [Brad] Well we got each little tile is one square.
So we got (mumbles) you're 18 feet, 18, 20, we'll go 20.
Should I get a little closer Liz?
- [Liz] You can try.
- [Bob] I'm gonna start bringing it up now Brad.
- [Brad] I can already feel it on my back
and I can feel it on my leg.
Now if you turn the TENS up high enough
you will get muscle contraction
and as long as it's not bothering you
there's nothing wrong with that.
- [Bob] I think it's contracting now isn't it?
- [Brad] Yep and this is completely pain free.
It actually feels pretty good.
You feel that little vibration, it's almost like a tickle.
- [Bob] I'm gonna go up to 12.
- [Brad] 12, keep going Bob.
- [Bob] Alright, 13.
- [Brad] And now you can see at this level--
- [Bob] 14, oh look at that.
- It's pulsating, and then it gets a little
ramps up and then it goes down and it starts all over.
And that's at P6.
If I was at P3 it would be a constant buzz
or a constant stimulation.
There you go, that's good Bob.
This is where I would leave it.
Now I can move around and I can walk like this.
Liz can you show where I'm at?
Pan over to Bob.
- Way over here, hi.
- He's on the other side of the room.
Is there any reason why you would have
someone else do it for you?
I can't think of any.
Normally, that is gonna be in my pocket.
We're just demonstrating to show what the capability
of the unit is and it's kind of fun.
Right now, and this is exactly what I did,
I went to work and I did my work at home
but you can also, if you're driving in the car
the pods are locked, you can lean against them
and they don't turn on and off with that little button
until you bring the current down on the unit.
- Right, so I brought it down a few degrees here
just to make sure you're not--
- Few degrees. - Degrees.
(laughter)
- The amplitude, you brought it down a few milliamps.
- I'm not an electrical person so.
- I think this goes up to 60 milliamps or is it 80.
I read it and I should have it in my memory
but you know the gray hair thing.
- What's nice, this is a very compact unit.
You can put that in your pocket
and don't have to worry about the wires,
like our microphone wires get caught on stuff.
And you can just go ahead and work
and it's just really...
Again it's got the stimulator and the TENS.
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- This is their best selling unit, they're saying
so people are liking it and for good reason.
As a matter of fact I'm gonna leave this on.
It feels good.
- Alright, he likes torture.
No it feels good, thanks.
- Why Bob?