♪ Bob and Brad, the two most famous physical therapists ♪
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- Hi folks, I'm Bon Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapst.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- Well, in our opinion, of course Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about taking care
of your TENS pads.
How to make them sticky again, last longer,
and are we gonna answer the question, are they wore out?
- Right.
- You know, if you've been using the pads for a while,
you may not know whether or not you can continue
to use them.
- Right, so, we'll tell you.
- Yep, so, adhesive pads or electrodes,
let's just show 'em some a couple of examples here, Brad.
Here's some white ones and you have some larger ones too
but that's in the bag down there, isn't it.
That's all right. - I already put it away,
but yeah it's just a little bit larger.
- Yeah, these are what deliver the current
from the little unit.
- Right.
- So the TENS unit, and delivers the electrical stimulation
into your skin.
So the TENS pads generally have like 20 to 30 uses is
what they estimate.
- Right.
- Signs they're wearing out.
One, they're no longer sticky,
they just won't stay in place,
'cause they are self adhesive.
- Right.
- And you can start telling when they're wearing out.
- Yeah, they just don't stick and they may tingle a little
bit more, they don't have good conductivity
between the skin.
- Right, that is the second point.
- And the pad.
Yeah, you get excessive pins and needles sensation.
- Yeah.
- It just doesn't feel right, it doesn't.
Brad and I again are old enough to remember when they used
to have, what was it,
like carbon ones that you had to put separate gel on it?
- Oh yeah.
- Then you gotta tape 'em in place.
- I'm not that old, Bob. - You remember that.
(Brad laughs) That was really a hassle.
These are so much nicer.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So, the things you wanna make sure.
You wanna keep the pads clean and you can use a moist
cloth to do that,
'cause there's a lot of times dirt and oil on the pad.
- Right.
- But don't use a paper towel
because that could leave residue.
- Right.
- The biggest thing is,
before you use these you should clean you skin.
- Right, that's by far the biggest thing,
you gotta really make sure.
If you got hairy arms or whatever, you need to shave it.
It's gonna make a big difference on how easy it is to put
on and off and how long they'll last, so shave it off.
- Yeah, and what we're trying to do with the soap is
remove the natural oils because that will decrease
the stickiness of your pads.
- Exactly.
- So after each use you wanna go ahead and put the,
oh you're gonna show that, Brad.
- Yeah, so they come with a nice plastic, shiny pad there,
and you've gotta peel it off and then put it on your skin,
and you'll have two of 'em.
I've got four here, there'll be two.
But make sure you keep this little Ziploc plastic bag,
'cause when you have 'em off,
immediately put it back in the Ziploc bag and seal it up
because if you leave it out dust will get
on there and then you put this back on the dusty thing
and it's gonna really shorten up the life.
So cleanliness is godliness when it comes
to your electrodes.
- There we go Brad, couldn't have said it better.
- Say no more.
- You can purchase pads separately, by the way.
You know, all the units come with pads but you wanna make
sure that it's the type of pads that are compatible
with your machine, which means, in other words,
you'd normally wanna buy from the same company.
- Mmhmm.
- And like even some companies have snaps
and they have the piglet.
- Yep, like here.
- Yeah, so we wanna make sure that those are correct.
IReliev has the Dollar Electrode Pad Club.
So you can sign up and they'll save you money and they can
provide you with pads on a regular basis.
- Right They've really tried to make it convenient
for you to get your replacement pads.
- Yeah, if you decide that you've found this is the thing
for your chronic pain,
that you're using this daily instead of narcotics and such,
and this is your deal,
then you're gonna probably wanna sign up for a club like
that to save some money.
- Yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause you're gonna use it on a regular basis so.
- Right.
- All right, questions put 'em down below.
Thanks for watching. - Good, thank you.
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