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TENS Machine For Back Pain Relief
By Javier Fuller
Back pain can be tackled in many ways. You can not depend upon the merit of any one type of treatment, to get rid of back pain. When you have back pain and when it does not subside for days
together, you are so confused you are willing to follow any type of therapy that offers you hope of relief.
Well, it is the machine again that has come to the rescue of the humanity. For taking care of the lower back pain TENS machine (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) is used with much
benefit. Powered by the batteries that send mild electric pulse through the nerves, to block the pain signals is transmitted to the brain. The pressure felt in the affected area where the pain was
located is relaxed. But the cost of such treatments is on the high side, which bars many from availing the treatment.
It is not that the TENS machine is the panacea for your back pain and once you have availed the services of this machine, you are free from your back pain for ever. Proper lifestyle and taking
care of little things, which you consider as insignificant, is the indirect part of your treatment.
Be disciplined when you sit, stand or lift things. Don't do things casually, without paying proper attention. If you sit on a properly non-aligned chair that could itself be the cause of your
back pain. While picking up anything from the ground, bend from the knees in a relaxed manner, and not the stiff bend by just using the back. Do not put stress on the lower muscles of your
back.
If the popularity of the machine is any indication, the TENS machine has done well. To many it has given total relief, to some partial. And as it is a case with all other therapies to treat back
pain, to some there is no relief at all. Nevertheless, this TENS treatment has caught the imagination of the sufferers.
Even if one man is treated, it is one less patient of back pain! Further research is being carried out to judge the effectiveness of the machine, as part of the modern day medicine. At the
existing level, the relief in pain provided by the machine varies from person to person.
The TENS machine works in two ways. The machine will trigger the pain gate to close when it is set on a high pulse rate of 90-130 Hz which it is believed, will block the pain nerve path to the
brain. This can be said to be its normal functioning. When the machine is set on a low pulse rate, 2-5 Hz, it will cause the body to make its own pain easing chemicals called endorphins.
The main advantage of using the TENS machine is that, that there are no side effects. But this treatment is strictly to be taken under the guidance and supervision of the physician only. About the Author To read more articles on back pain, back pain medication and back pain relief sources visit http://www.backpaindetails.com/pain/
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