hey everybody it's Doctor Jo, and the folks at iReliev sent me one of their
products to review. what's in the box? let's find out.
so let's open up this
nice carrying case and find out. so iReliev sent me their Wireless TENS
EMS therapeutic wearable system. and so you all probably know I love TENS units.
I think when they're used in conjunction with exercises and stretches, they can
give you a lot of pain relief. and so their unit is really really cool. what I
love about it is, first of all, that it's wireless. Wireless is such a neat concept
now because even though just traditional units are great and they work fine, a lot
of times there's a lot of wires all over the place. and with TENS and EMS units,
you can wear them while you're doing things, stretches and exercises, or even
just doing out and about activities. so when it's wireless, it makes it just it's
more convenient. it's less noticeable if you don't want people to see what's
going on. and so it's just a nice benefit to have with a TENS EMS unit. so you can
see here their remote or the thing that's controlling these pieces, which
are the wireless pieces, is nice and small. so once you get everything started,
you can put it in your pocket and then just go on and not have to worry about
it at all. so these are the little pods that go with it. and so what's cool about
this is that they sync up really easily with the unit. and so it comes with two,
but they also have expandable packs so you can use up to four different
channels. and so with the channels, it's also really nice because you just turn
these on. and if they're all on they will sync together, so if you want to use it
so if I if I turn the intensity up both of these go up, you can or you can
actually set it so they're all independent. so let's say you wanted to
work on your leg and you want to work on your shoulder at the same time, but you
didn't want them to be synced together doing the same thing because one might
be you need to be more intensity. you could do that independently, so that just
kind of makes it a lot easier overall. so it also comes with the two electrode
pads here to go with the controlling unit pods here.
and so what's really cool is this again it's just a super easy setup. you see
this is it's nice because it's a nice big pad. it's got the two here so you can
kind of put wherever your area of pain is in the middle. and so these just snap
on super easy. it doesn't take much just to get them snapped in just like that.
and so it also is rechargeable and it comes with this, and again this little
carrying case. what I like about this is everything has its own little spot, so
you don't have to have everything jumbled together. you can take it with
you. you can take it to work. you can travel with it. it's just all nice
they're together which is always really nice because if you're like me, you
like to have everything organized. so what you want to do is when you when you
first get ready to get started, turn on the pods first. either you know the one
or two that you want to use, and then so once you get this on, this has some
settings that tells you what is this. so you really just, you've got the on
button. I mean your off button and your on button, and your settings, and
your channels here. so you just want to hold it down for two seconds and it'll
come on. it's got a nice backlight here so if you're in you know, if you're
trying to go to sleep, you know you want to put it on a little bit to calm down
before you go to sleep, you can kind of see what's going on with that backlight
there. once the little wireless thing comes on it means that they're connected.
so if that doesn't come on, that means that they're not quite synching together
yet. so you've got the tens and EMS component. and of course, like I said, if
you've seen some of my videos you know what tens is but tens is
transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. and so really that's working
those surface nerves. it is specifically for pain control. that's what you're
using a TENS unit for. EMS is electrical muscle stimulation, and that's actually
working the muscles. they are two different types of currents, so you
really don't want to use one for the other. you really know if you just want
to do pain control, you're trying to relax, maybe you're trying to do a
stretch and it hurts, use the tens. if you're trying to get some of that muscle
retraining back, or you know if you've done a workout and your muscles are
fatigued and you want to kind of help them recover, then you use the EMS. and so
you you can use the different ones for that. so it's got 14 different modes
total for the TENS and the EMS. so it's got a lot of options for you,
which is really nice, and I like that as well. and so what I just think is so
important and they've done a great job is their instructional manual. because I
know a lot of you have asked me questions with your own unit in the past,
and it's a little bit tough because most of the units come with a manual, but a
lot of them are different. some of them are very similar, and if you've used one
before you can kind of figure out how to use the other, but what's really nice
when you have a nice manual like this is not only do they tell you how to set
everything up, and it shows you how to set you know if you want the the one
channel using all of them, or if you want independent Channel. it's got colored
pictures to show you how to do all of these. But what I really like, and I think
people appreciate this as well, is it goes through each setting. so here you
can see it's got your tens settings, and your EMS settings. and it tells you not
only the benefits of which ones they do, but what you're supposed to feel with it.
and this is important because sometimes if you don't know what you're supposed
to feel, you're kind of like I don't know is this feeling a good feeling? is this a
bad feeling? you know what do I do? and so this over here on the EMS side
also kind of shows you when you should maybe use it. so you know if you're if
you're sore after a workout, use this setting. you know if you want to help
retrain those muscles, use this setting. and so it's just it's a lot of nice good
information that's not always in the manuals. and I think it's really
important to know how to use your tens unit or your EMS unit because if you're
just putting it on, and you don't know what you're doing ,you're not getting the
best benefit out of it. and so having this really helps you utilize your unit
to the best that you can use it too. and really give that pain relief, really get
those muscles working, and to be able to use them with stretches and exercises.
so I really like that component as well. so let me put it on real quick and just
kind of show you how it works. so I had turned everything off. I'm going to turn
everything back on. so again I turned this the the pod on first, and then I
turn the unit on just holding that button down. so this is a fairly larger
pad. you might would you know use it on your leg your thigh
or something. I'm just gonna use it on my arm to kind of show you you can. my arms
are not as big as some other people's but, so you can just kind of wrap it
around like that. so depending on where your pain is with when it's a wireless
one just like this and if you're just using one pod, you probably want to put
it almost directly over the area or in the center of the area. so the two quote
you know channels going back and forth and that one channel are kind of
encompasses that. you know if you had two together, you might if your pain was here,
you put one a little bit lower and one on top and then so it's kind of getting
that whole area. so as you can see here you can change the channels by pressing
on the setting button, and what the setting button does is it'll blink and
I'll show you. so this is on the tens. if you wanted to change it you could change
using the buttons up and down. so now it's the EMS. if you want to go back to
tens, you go there, and then if you want to go to your programs, or your modes, or
your channels, you can go up and down with that one. and then you can also set
the time over here. and so you know just I usually say honestly probably more
than 15 or 20 minutes a time you don't need to, but you could. the the settings
go up higher than that. and then you have your intensity here. so I always say you
know go until you start to feel something because some of the settings
you might get to two or three before you actually feel anything. so I'm already
feeling just a little a little. it's probably the acupuncture setting where
I'm feeling it it's almost like someone's just tapping on me a little
bit. so with tens since it's for pain control, you want it to be strong, but you
want to be comfortable. so when people say you know which settings should I use?
well you can look in the manual and see what they suggest, but if you're looking
for pain control, you really want it to be whatever it feels good for you. so you
know setting one for me might be great, but for you setting two or three might
be better. so really I would say go through the settings and see how they
feel. but again, you want to be strong but comfortable. with the tens unit, you
really shouldn't have a sustained contraction. it shouldn't just be holding
the muscles. so if that's happening, you have it too high, or maybe you need to
slightly replace or move the electrode around place it in
a different place. so that's kind of nice that you can do that. and then if you
want to again change the settings you just kind of go all the way around again
until it's blinking. so it's pretty easy to use. pretty straightforward. nothing
too fancy, but that's nice because sometimes you don't want fancy, you just
want you know, you're hurting. you want to get this thing on or your muscles are
fatigued you want to recover them. you want to get it on and get going, and so
this option is a really great thing. I love the wireless. I love the extra
information in the manual just to help you really utilize your unit. so if
you're interested in purchasing the iReliev unit or any of their other
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by clicking down there. and remember be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.