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- Hi folks I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Hey Brad, we're gonna show a step-by-step
how to use a Wireless TENS unit for pain control.
It's actually the iReliev 5050.
Brad and I have looked at dozens and dozens of TENS units.
We've said this before in other videos.
We decided that we're gonna endorse just one brand
because this brand, besides being a good brand,
also has really excellent instructions.
But we thought to beef those up,
we're gonna show on video, how to use it.
- Exactly, Bob.
- So I'm gonna talk about that 5050 just real quick Brad.
- Oh sure, sure.
- The cons of using the 5050, it is more expensive,
and you do need to recharge both the unit and the pods.
You wanna show the pods just real quickly Brad?
- So here we go.
Here's one pod.
It comes with two pods, then here's the unit,
Then, of course, the charging cords with it.
- And it has a hard carrying case,
which Brad was showing there too, which is kinda nice.
So it's powerful, it's compact, it's got the case,
it's rechargeable, the display is backlit,
it's got excellent instructions,
it's got a two year warranty,
and it's got a sizable discount if you use our link.
- Right.
- So, having said all that, Brad's gonna now demonstrate
how to use this unit.
I'm gonna step out.
- Oh Bob, you're gonna leave?
- Yep. I'm gonna leave.
- (chuckles) Okay, see ya'.
Okay, here we are.
So once again, here we got the unit
and the case that it comes in.
It has two pods, so you can actually treat
two different locations at once
or use it for one location,
that has maybe a broad area of pain symptoms.
- [Bob] You can buy extra pods too.
- Yeah, you can go--
- [Bob] You can do four, right Bob?
- Exactly, yep.
So here are the electrodes.
So one pod is actually,
if you compare it to the other units, is one channel.
So I'm just gonna snap these on so they're ready to go.
Here, I just want to show you how it's wired up.
You can do two pods, you can charge both at once,
and then you do also have to charge
- The unit too. - the main unit.
So they just snap on here, it works very nicely.
Now, I'm first gonna go through and show you how to use,
let's say we had knee pain.
I was gonna take this, and you'll peel it off,
and say I wanna put it on my knee right here.
Okay.
I'm gonna leave it here so that it's easy to see,
how this works.
So this is channel one,
and I did mark this one as channel two.
But we're setting channel two off to the side right now.
We have 'em charged up.
We put this on the area we want to treat.
And to turn this on, you simply hold the on button,
allow it to fire up.
- [Bob] Are you able to see Mike?
- That's good.
- [Bob] Okay.
All right, matter of fact, so I can hold this still
I'm gonna steady myself here.
All right.
See it, Mike?
The only problem is I can't see it.
I've got to put my cheaters on.
So there we go.
Oh, that's much better.
Alright, so now what we're gonna do,
is first this unit has TENS as well as EMS.
we're gonna go with the TENS.
I'm not gonna talk too much about the EMS,
but to toggle it, you just,
oops,
du, du, du.
Oh I forgot, you have to turn this on first.
So I'm gonna hold this.
- [Bob] That's a good reminder Brad.
- Lights up.
- [Bob] I remember that happened to me before,
and you wonder, why isn't working?
- Yep.
- [Bob] And so remember to first to turn the pod on.
- Exactly.
So I've got that going, TENS is blinking.
Okay, so if I hit up,
it goes to EMS.
We don't want EMS, we wanna deal with pain,
so we're gonna leave it on TENS.
I hit set again, it goes down to P1.
That's program number one.
There's eight different TENS programs
and that's how it stimulates and relieves your pain.
You have eight different options.
- [Bob] And you're gonna,
they have some descriptions of those programs
in the instruction book.
- Exactly.
- [Bob] So you can kinda guide you to,
but you really wanna try the different ones
to see which one works for you the best.
- Exactly, right.
I went through all eight,
and I found out I liked P1 and P3 the best.
- [Bob] Sure.
- And it's gonna different, vary between people.
All right so, let me see, I'm gonna go back to,
so now to change this, here's P2, P3, P4.
I'm gonna go back down by using the minus button
or the off button to get to P1.
I'm gonna hit set, that sets me on that program.
Now it goes to time.
It set here at 30 minutes.
I can go up and it goes by five minutes, up to one hour.
I'm gonna go back down and set it for 30 minutes,
that's my choice.
I'm gonna hit set.
So that part is set, and then it goes to the intensity.
Okay.
So this would be on my knee,
I don't wanna hold my knee up.
- [Bob] And that's channel one.
- Channel one, all right.
- [Bob] So you gotta go to channel one
to set the intensity first.
- Exactly, so if you look here, it says channel one.
So we're all lined up that way
and what we're going to do now is,
can you see that, Mike?
- [Bob] Yeah, it's blinking too.
The pod is blinking.
- And that's how you know they're connected,
'cause the pod will blink twice.
And then we know, and you'll feel it as well.
Now I'm at five,
and typically I would go up to 10 or 11
was about as most as I felt comfortable with.
- [Bob] Slowly though.
- Yep, take your time with it.
- [Bob] You may wanna do like go up to two or three
and then wait a few, like 20 to 30 seconds,
in case it ramps up naturally.
- Right, now I know because I went through this
and I read on it, P1 does not oscillate.
- [Bob] Oscillate like that.
- Channels one, two and three does not oscillate,
but if you can't remember that,
like Bob says, play it safe and just turn it on.
Because if they are oscillate,
it's programmed to oscillate intensity from a low to a high,
and it takes a few seconds to go through that.
- [Bob] So you might, if you go and put it on you go,
"Oh, I don't feel anything."
And you put it up to a 10,
and all of a sudden it oscillates even higher.
- Right.
- [Bob] You're gonna go, "Oh, that hurts a little."
- Then you go to hit it down quickly.
So, and that's that way with any TENS unit.
- [Bob] Yep, yep.
- There's no gettin' around that, alright.
And then, once you get to them, you go back.
And if you, like I just did,
I went past it, so I'm back on TENS, you just hit set,
'cause I wanna change my intensity up to 10
and you're just keeping it
till the intensity starts flashing.
Then, you can see I'm gonna go up to 10,
and see you know, the little indicator there
says I got some connection.
I said 10, I hit set and now the timer
will automatically start to go.
I'll have this--
- [Bob] And it locks in, Brad.
So right now, if you hit the intensity at some point,
it would no longer go up or down.
- Yeah, you have to wait so many seconds.
Yeah, and it's locked right now, it won't go up or down.
And that way, if this is in your pocket,
and you lean forward and let's say,
it hits the positive or the plus accidentally,
just because of pressure against your pants,
it won't jump up from 10 to a 15,
just because you're leaning on it.
- [Bob] So how do you take it back down,
if you're, you know?
- If you want it, that's a good question.
I'm gonna go to set again, go to TENS.
I'm gotta continue on.
- [Bob] Go all the way through it
- Yep, all the way through to the intensity.
It only takes as fast as you can push the button.
And let's say I'm gonna go back down to turn it off.
I'm gonna go to zero.
- [Bob] There we go.
- And then I can turn it off, hold the off button.
It has to be on zero to turn off,
so you won't be able to do it while it's operating.
Oop, I'm sorry.
- [Bob] You have to turn the pod off.
- Turn the pod off first.
There's some sequences that you will do well with,
after you operate it a few times,
and we should be going off here.
- [Bob] It's hard to remember, because on the other TENS,
without pods, you don't have to do that.
- There we go.
- [Bob] That shut her off.
- Yep.
- [Both] So.
- [Bob] So you'll get more comfortable with it over time,
as you work with it.
- Right.
- [Bob] And, but then, there's also the instruction book.
It's got the step-by-step quick guides, quick start guide,
and it's got a really good instruction book too.
- And this goes through all the technical data in detail.
A lot of it you will not need to know,
but they put it in there,
unless you're the engineering type.
And then the short instructions here.
Okay.
- [Bob] All right, the company's
always got good service too.
So if you have any questions, you can give 'em a call.
- Right.
- All right. - Thank you.
- [Bob] Thanks everybody for watchin'
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