hey everybody it's Doctor Jo, and the folks at smart medical device sent me their
doctor music 3s tens unit to demo for you today. so let's get started.
so there's a lot of really unique cool things about this particular tens unit,
and with the name music in it, you probably know what that means. so not
only is this Wireless, so it doesn't have a whole lot of chords going where you
have to hide them if you're using it or get it have them get in the way, but it
connects to your phone and the cool part about that is you can sync it to your
music and your music library and it goes pulses to the beat of the music. and so
it's it's a really neat thing and at first I was a little bit skeptical
because a lot of times there's different settings that you want specific pulses
or rhythms to aTENS, but what it really does is, let's say I'm in a happy mood
and I want some pump up music. when you get that beat when you're feeling it on
you, it really does kind of get you pumped up. or if you want to chill out
and you've got that slower beat, so it really works a lot better than I thought
it would. and it's really really cool because then you can listen to your
favorite music and kind of bounce along with it. so if you're hurting, music
always is a healing component, so I think that's a great thing to add on to a TENS
unit. the other thing that is really cool about this particularly tens unit that I
found I really like, some tens units when you have them, if you start off with the
strength at zero and you bump it up to one, you feel it. and then when you bump
it up to two, it's a lot stronger. this particular unit actually goes in
really slow increments of the intensity. so if I wanted just a little bit of
intensity, if I just wanted to kind of calm down that pain, it does a really
good job of it doesn't start here and jump up to here. you can go at each step
to get to that higher level. and that I think is really important because
sometimes, depending on your body type, if you're a little bit leaner, if you go
from one to two sometimes it will get a muscle contraction, and with a TENS unit
that transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, you're not looking for a
muscle contraction. you this is for pain control. this is not
for bulking up muscle or strengthening the muscles, so you really don't want
that muscle contraction. and this does a really good job of giving you those
options and those steps before it might get to that point where it's actually
contracting that muscle, so I really like that component as well. and so the way
that you charge it is you take this end, and you just unplug it here, and it uses
any USB. it doesn't actually come with a charger, but most likely any Bluetooth
device you have will have a charger, so it's really easy to charge right there.
so you see these two are connected together so it gives you a lot of space
of where to put them, and so it's very versatile in the fact that you can put
it on your leg, you put on your arm, you can put on your neck, and you can put it
on your back. and they also make it even a little more options is you have these
smaller pads where you'd maybe use something like on your arm or maybe even
on your lower leg, and also available separately for purchase is a larger pad.
and you can use the larger pad for back pain, or if you're having some abdominal
pain, or even up in your neck ,and so the larger pad is a little bit more
dispersed so it gets a larger area. maybe not quite as pinpoint to an area, so it's
nice to have that component as well because sometimes with the smaller ones
you can get a more specific spot and then with the larger ones you can get
kind of a more general area. and a lot of times with back pain, you do have a more
general area or even in the abdominal area or even the upper back you might
want to get that whole back area, so again it gives you a lot of options and
I really like that. so let me go ahead and put it on real quick and show you a
little bit about it. so what's really also cool is these just snap right in, so
it makes it super easy to snap them on and take them off. so it's it's really
cool it goes really fast. all you have to do is download their app. when you get
the app, it looks like this, and then you just turn this on, and as soon as you
hear the beep, you hit the connect touch right there. and it will ask you to sync
it, and then mine's already been synced. sometimes your phone might take just a
little bit longer, but this is what comes up. and so you have the options of going
here once your music library sync ,they do have a couple demo songs, I'll play
those for you, and then you can even change the the pulses here.
so if you don't want to use the music, and you want to use something else, and
then you have your time that you can change and then once you put it on, you
can change your intensity. so lucky for you all, I have a little bit of shin pain.
I've got some slight shin splints going on because I've been training for a race,
so I'm just going to put this on really quickly there so you can see how easy it
is to put on. so if I'm looking at my anterior tib, which is a little sore
through here, I'm just going to put kind of one a little bit higher up, and then
the other one a little bit lower. the which one it doesn't really matter,
you're just kind of getting that connection. so if my pain is mainly in
here, you want it to kind of be in the middle that's how you want to do this
with tens units. and then all you do is if you want to pick a song, the demo song,
and then you just start taking up the intensity up here. and so if you can see
right here, the little lights are beating to it. and so once I start taking it up,
and so see I'm getting, I'm already up to ten before I really feel something, which
is really nice because as I said before you, you might have to go up higher
numbers, but it gives you that nice slow progression versus just going from one
to two and then all the sudden you're like wow this really hurts. and so what
it's doing is every, it's just going along with the beat. so if I'm trying to
you know get some pain relief, and a lot of times you know you're hurting again,
music makes it feel really nice. and so I like that component as well. it's again a
really neat kind of different component to a TENS unit. I feel like for me
personally music does give you a lot of emotions, and you know happy sad all that
kind of stuff. and so when you're hurting, it's just really nice to have that - and
if you don't want the music, you can you know change it to the pulse one, and
it'll just do the pulse, or you can turn your sound down on your phone. so again
it makes it nice and easy here. they also have once you've have your pads on the
smaller ones, they've got a little carrying thing here which is really cool
because what I like about this is then it makes it nice and compact, so if you
want to take it with you somewhere this is pretty easy to carry with you. and
again you don't have all those wires things that you have to wrap up and
carry around with you. so again the larger pad is the same concept, you just
connect these on and then if you want to put it on your back,
you know are on your tummy, or even back up on your neck, you can do that as well.
and so with those larger pads it gets a bigger surface which is nice and so then
this is connected so you don't really have to worry about placement of the
actual things, you just can put it on wherever you want to. so again with tens
units it's really for pain control. you're not trying to get that
contraction of a muscle. so if you are getting a little bit of a contraction,
you might want to change the placement a little bit. on thinner areas or a leaner
person where there's not as much maybe tissue on there, like the shoulder, a lot
of times that's the one that you might get a contraction with it. and so if
you're getting a contraction, take it down or change the placement of the
electrodes. so if you're interested in purchasing the product, make sure and
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here. and remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.