- All right, today,
we are gonna show you what a TENS unit does
and how you can use it to alleviate your pain.
- Bob, they've been around for years and just hold on,
we'll cover everything.
- Hold on to your horses.
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- All right, this is the 8080 iReliev unit.
And it's a TENS and EMS, which is...
- [Brad] TENS, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
- [Bob] Wow.
- And the EMS is electrical muscle stimulation.
And it's just two sources of stimulation
that this 8080 unit produces.
The TENS is to manage pain.
- What pain?
- And the EMS is for,
if you wanna use it for working out and-
- And building muscle. - Right.
- I dunno if it'd build muscle,
but it can tone muscle. - Right.
As well as for recovery.
- Right.
- So there's a number of uses that people aren't aware of.
- All right, we'll talk about now
how TENS can alleviate pain.
All right,
the first way TENS can help you is through the Gate Theory
- The gate?
- Gate, right.
Like open a gate. Cole's gate.
- All right.
- So, Brad, let's say you're hammering
and you hit your finger.
- Ah, that's happened many times!
- Right, so what happens, impulse-
- I swear.
(both laugh)
- Impulse is sent up your arm into your brain
and the brain tells you, "Painful, this hurts."
- Yeah. - So, what happens if-
- Then I say bad words.
- Right. - Right.
- Comes right out of the mouth,
doesn't it? (Brad laughs)
So, next thing you can do,
you can actually put a TENS unit on the,
you put the electrodes on the pain.
Or you can put it somewhere along the path up to the head.
- So then we close the gate.
- Right.
This stimulates and closes the gate.
- So it never gets up. - Right.
- And then you don't say bad words.
- Right. - And life is better.
- Life is good.
Brad? - All right, Bob,
so we wanna talk
and I was making a little bit of fun
about the sand paper.
- Right. - But it's kind of true.
But we'll talk about why this works as far as-
- Another reason.
- Yeah, another reason.
How your body responds to the TENS unit.
What happens is your body produces endorphins.
- Natural endorphins.
- Natural endorphins,
which tells your body it's like a pain,
well, it's not like, it is a pain-
- It has an analgesic effect.
- Analgesic, absolutely.
So, you produce these endorphins.
Your body does not feel the pain.
It brings it down to a more acceptable level.
- And what's cool about it, Brad, is if you do this
these endorphins can last an hour later.
- Right.
'Cause they recommend - You can take this off.
- For 30 minutes, is typically how long they recommend.
But the effects of the endorphins continue to last on
for another hour or so - Right.
It's even used during labor.
And mothers like it because they're in the control.
- Right, yep. - Right.
And there's no harm to the mother or to the baby.
- Yeah.
Yeah, that camera.
- Okay (laughs) hi.
- I do wanna mention a perfect situation,
my uncle, who was severely electrocuted, he was a lineman.
He lost half of his fingers
and pain for the rest of his life.
He was in his thirties.
And he was using pain pills for years.
And his visceral, his gut, if you will, did not accept that.
- Right.
- So he was stuck with what was he gonna do?
- He was in a bad way.
- He started using the TENS unit.
And he wished he would've started using it years prior
because he's havin' success with it.
He had a lot of control using it
and he was grateful for it.
- Yeah, it works for some people, not others.
I mean- - Right.
- It's a, I dunno, 50-50.
- You know, I think that's a good rule.
But it's certainly worth trying because, particularly,
if you want to get off of
your pain medications. - Of of pain meds.
- And manage it another way.
- Well, I'll talk about this unit for a bit, Brad.
- Oh sure.
- All right, Brad, this is the 8080 iReliev TENS Unit.
- Right. - That's also EMS.
And the reason we like this one,
because it's a good price
but it's fairly easy to use. - [Brad] Right.
- And they come with a very good instructional manual.
- Right,
so they got this here. - And they're very detailed.
- And then they have a little one for quick notes.
- Right. Right.
- So you don't have to go through that
once you get used to it.
And eventually, you have it memorized
and you don't need 'em at all.
- Yep, it comes with two leads.
This is a lead.
It goes down to the pads.
- Yep.
- And you get four small pads and you get two large ones.
- Yep.
It depends on, you'll know what you're gonna need to use
depending on your pain source.
- And actually, if you wanna,
we have a video on how to use this.
- Yes.
- If you go to our program section under our website,
bobandbrad.com
- Program of what?
- Our program of TENS.
- Oh, yeah!
It's got nothing to do with IT people programming,
it's a program-
- Right.
- I think of it like a library of videos
for this particular treatment.
- And what does it come with, Brad?
- Oh, this is a beautiful thing about it.
PDF printouts, which give you a little printout,
the review of the video.
So you do not have to go back
and review the video and look at our faces.
You'll go to that, very convenient.
Keep it with your TENS unit.
It'll save you a lot of time.
And it's free, not even a email.
- Just, I'm gonna mention a couple things I like about this,
Brad. - Two things.
- So, (laughs) maybe more than a couple.
(Brad laughs)
So, when we were younger, they actually had units like this,
that weren't rechargeable.
So you went through batteries like crazy.
- Yeah, if you take your little triple A
or double A batteries
and throw 'em away and get the next one.
Yeah, so with these, you plug it into a,
I think it's a UFB.
USB. - USB.
- Yeah, into your computer.
It's very convenient.
- But the pads were also not self adhesive.
So we had 'em tape on.
Do you remember that?
- Well, yeah, that was back when
the dinosaurs were still roamin'.
- So this has got, I think, a really nice display.
You can see it real well.
It's got, like I said, easy instructions.
It's got all the pads.
It's got a little clip.
You can clip it onto your belt.
- Yep.
I usually just, people I worked with
put it in their pocket, usually.
- Right. - It's pretty convenient.
- It's got a two year warranty.
- Yep.
- And you get a good discount if you use our link below.
- Oh sure, sure.
- I think it's a good deal.
- Yeah.
I can say that if you have a different one and it works,
you don't have to buy one of these.
We just know that they work well and we recommend 'em.
- I'm gonna show real Brad, real quick, Brad, it in action.
- Oh good.
So, right now, he's applying some electrical stimulation.
And he's getting some muscle contraction.
That's why his wrist is flexing.
- [Bob] I'm not doing that. The machine is doin' it.
- [Brad] And that's not painful, is it?
- [Bob] No, it's not painful.
- It feels like pins and needles.
- Right, pins and needles, right.
- And you're in complete control of the intensity.
- Right, I can push it back down again
and I'm back control, so.
- [Brad] Yep.
- You know, it's worth a try you said
if you're on some type of narcotic.
- Right, yep.
- Some bad pills.
- Some pain meds that are giving you negative side effects
or they will over time.
This is a good option.
- All right.
- Take care and enjoy.
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