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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the Internet. - Yeah, no kidding,
of course Bob.
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Today we're gonna talk about,
if you ever wanted to try a TENS unit for pain relief?
Now is the time.
We're gonna show you step-by-step instruction
for using a really simple one.
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Brad, let's get started. - That's right.
- So, some of you may have heard about TENS,
transcutaneous electrical neuromuscular stimulation
or nerve stimulation.
This is a way of...
What does it do Brad?
Do you want, mind telling?
- Well, it manages pain, it takes the pain level down
so you can avoid using pain medication like opioids--
- Like narcotics. - Right.
It's kinda a technical explanation,
the gate theory, as far as how it manages the pain,
I'm not gonna get into detail on that.
- It cuts your pain off basically.
- Exactly-- - It cuts off the pain signal.
- It gets those natural endorphins going,
that is gonna also help you feel less pain and more--
- Yeah, so if you're...
Especially if you have like, chronic pain
and you're wanting to try to get off the medication
or at least decrease the medication,
these are just a little electrical stim unit
that you use, you hook up
to the leads and they go to the pads,
and the pads, you put over the area of pain.
So, I'm gonna show you step-by-step.
The reason that we're bringing this one up is,
we've liked iReliev, and the reason we've liked that,
there's a lot of TENS units out there.
- Right. - Hundreds,
won't you say Brad?
- There's more than I can count.
- Yeah, more than you can count, and that's more than five.
So if you, and the thing is, a lot of them are fine,
lot of them are powerful,
but a lot of them do not have very good instructions,
that's the thing that we found.
- Yeah. - A lot of them
were sent to us and they were, had terrible instructions.
iReliev has terrific instructions,
they got a quick cheat sheet,
and then they plus have a entire booklet here
that goes over how to this step-by-step.
So, the thing is, they contacted us
and they're putting one of their units on sale.
This is the 1313, it's gonna only be $34.99
so that's very inexpensive.
For years, these units...
Remember Brad, these were hundreds of dollars.
- Yeah, they were ridiculously expensive.
- I mean, yeah, like four, five hundred dollars.
So, for us now to see this down to $34.99,
this is really a bargain.
So, it gives you a chance to try it
without spending too much money.
I want you to...
You might wanna go to their website, iReliev,
and we'll have a link below
because you wanna read on the precautions and the warnings.
- Alright, there's some things,
like if you have a pacemaker,
you're not a candidate at all for a TENS unit.
- Yeah, I don't want you buying this
and you have some of the precautions or warnings
and you shouldn't use it.
There aren't too many, I mean, if you're pregnant,
you're not gonna put it over the fetus and such but,
there's a few so you may wanna take care of that, so...
I'ma look at the 1313 here.
It comes with obviously a box,
it comes with the unit itself,
and it comes with a clip.
Sorry Mike, I'm not very stable--
- [Brad] You can clip it to your belt--
- [Bob] Yeah, you can clip it to our belt.
It comes with two leads,
now these leads attach to the electro pads,
and there's four pads, I have two of them hooked up already,
and two of them that are ready for action here.
So it hooks up, I got it hooked up to channel one,
there's channel one and there's channel two.
This unit is very simple.
First, let me give you the negatives about this unit.
This unit only has TENS,
some of their upgraded units also have EMS,
which is electrical muscle stimulation.
That's for different type of problems,
that's like if you have muscle weakness,
if you're trying to regain muscle strength.
So, I don't know that it's a big issue
that it doesn't have the EMS.
- Right, if you just want pain relieve,
this is gonna be fine.
- Right, the other thing to me
that is a big negative about this though,
is that it has batteries.
It has three AAA batteries.
But, if you get one that's rechargeable,
it's gonna cost you a lot more money.
I mean, a fair amount of money.
So it's a trade-off.
- The batteries isn't that big of a deal,
you know, we lived with it for years.
- Right. - You know, they last for--
- Well they said, they said what they would do (stammers)...
The batteries generally last 30 to 60, you know, uses.
- Treatments. - Yeah, treatments.
So that's a fair amount of time.
But I, again, if want to try this for a inexpensive amount?
You know, pay for the batteries and that way you can see.
And maybe if you like it, then you can maybe invest
in a little more expensive one that recharges.
- Sure.
- Does that sound reasonable Brad?
- Well Bob, you're right on the money,
I wouldn't agree with you more.
- Alright. So, I'm gonna go ahead and start this now Mike.
So, are you focused in?
Alright, I attached it to the electrode
and it's going down the pads,
I'll show you that in a minute.
I'm gonna go ahead and hit "ON".
So you can see the "ON", very simple.
Now, there's just...
You're gonna do two settings here,
so you hit "MODE", and you could see the time is flashing.
So you can set the time either, you know, up or down.
I put it down to 55, right.
And now I went back up to 60 again.
If I want the 60, I go ahead and hit "MODE" again.
- Often times, 30 minutes is a standard for--
- Sure. I'm putting it at 60
just so I don't run into trouble right now.
- Sure, I understand.
- Alright, the next thing is flashing now,
is there's eight modes, or eight programs that you can try.
And these programs, they have a description
in their instruction book.
- Right. - So, it's real nice.
I'm gonna start with P1, that's program one.
I hit it, it stops flashing.
So now, I'm ready to go.
Now, if you have two channels hooked up,
you start with channel one then you go to channel two.
But I'ma start with channel one,
'cause that's the only one I got hooked up.
I'm gonna hit that,
and the zero should be flashing.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and start taking it up.
Now, the thing about this is,
if you've never used this before,
I want you to look through this booklet
where it says, has the programs on there,
and the first three programs, P1, P2 and P3,
they're all continuous,
it's all a continuous iteration here.
- Right, so you feel that pulse, that--
- All the time, right. - Right.
- When it fluctuates, which is the remainder of them,
P4 through P8, I want you to be very careful
on raising this, 'cause this is what happens.
Let's say you go all the way up to a 10 right away,
and you go, "I dunno how they feel anything".
But let's say, it's cycling down right then,
and then all of a sudden, it cycles back up again.
- Yeah. - So I'm just telling you,
be, be careful, slowly ramp it up.
So that way, you know, what you're into,
because most of these are very comfortable,
and you want it to be comfortable,
but you don't wanna put it up too high, too fast,
and get a little bit of a, almost shock.
- Right, just because of the natural,
automatic waveform that it puts out.
The one thing I wanted to mention Bob,
is, you know, you mentioned it, two channels.
For people who aren't familiar with that,
one channel, you could treat knee pain,
let's say you had knee pain and hip pain
on the same leg or even the other hip.
You could treat both areas, one with each channel,
on the same unit at the same time.
- Yeah, very good point, or you can set 'em up like a cross,
you know, so that all four are surrounding an area.
- Yeah, when it covers a bigger area,
it can be more effective.
- I'm gonna show you now, what I'm gonna do next,
I'm gonna hit "MODE" again and it flashes the time again.
I'm fine with the time, so I'm gonna hit "MODE" again.
And now it says "P1", and now I wanna go up to P2 and P3.
I'ma hit "MODE" to lock it in,
and now I'm gonna hit channel one again.
And I'm gonna start ramping it up.
And I want you to show, I'm gonna show you on, on my leg
how it kinda, actually looks.
Alright. Mike, can you look at the leg ones here?
I'm very pasty, Mike says. (laughs loudly)
- [Bob] Do you see a little bit of movement Mike?
Or don't you?
Oh good Lord (laughs).
- [Brad] Well, the goal is not to necessarily
to promote muscle contraction for pain anyways,
but it can happen.
- [Bob] Yeah, I wanna go ahead and take that down,
and try one more.
I though it was P3 that the one that really jumped.
But let me try another one, we'll go through it again.
58 minutes is good.
I'm going to P3, then we go to P2,
and we'll try that one
and we'll see if we have another bust.
So, I'm going to channel one.
And I'm gonna take it up here.
This one, this one's gonna be money.
- [Brad] What intensity are you at Bob?
- [Bob] I'm at 19.
- [Brad] And it goes up to 60?
- [Bob] I'm not sure what the intensity goes up to,
I never found out 'cause this is powerful enough.
- [Brad] Yeah. - [Bob] But this, these,
these first three programs Brad, are really comfortable.
I mean, I'm at 19 and, and it's pulsating,
but it's really comfortable.
- Sure. - So, and I can say they have
a description in here of the other ones,
and you can look through those.
But, once you have it in place like this,
if you want it, it's gonna lock in,
once it starts, stops flashing the number,
that means it's locked in.
So to take it down, I can't take it down now
unless I hit channel one again.
Then I can take it down.
Now I'm back down to 12.
So, once you, once it's locked in and it's all set,
you just go ahead and slip it in your pocket
or clip it to your belt
and you can go out and do your daily tasks,
and this is a great way to manage things,
you know, without using opioids
and it really doesn't have, really many side effects,
I mean, some people get a little irritated from the pads
if they're maybe allergic to those,
and they do have hypoallergenic pads,
is that how you say it?
- Yeah, and if you don't have any problem with Band-Aids
or any other adhesives on your skin,
you'll probably be fine with it,
I've had a few people over the last 20 years that are--
- Yeah, it's very, very rare.
- So it is something being aware of.
- Alright. Again, we'll put a link below
and they got a really good deal right now on it,
like I said, $34.99.
Check it out and...
Thanks everybody for watching.
- Good luck with your pain management.
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