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TENS unit People live their lives in pain every day, are you one of those people? Well, what if I told you there could be a solution to your pain?
The Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or TENS is used to help with pain. It is applied using various waveforms and a variety of other electrical stimulation parameters. There are three main types of TENS to choose from. There is conventional TENS, Low Rate TENS, and Burst mode TENS. Conventional TENS is also known as high rate TENS. It uses short duration high frequency pulses at a current amplitude sufficient enough to produce a comfortable sensation without muscle contractions to help with pain.3 High rate can be applied for 24 hours at a time with a rate of 80-100 pps. Also …show more content…

The last group of rats received no TENS at all. “Thermal and mechanical pain thresholds were assessed in right hind paw before and 12 days after the CCI surgery.”(Somers & Clemente) 2 The results concluded several things about TENS managing neuropathic pain. “Applying the high rate frequency daily reduced the development of mechanical allodynia in CCI rats and low rate frequency reduced the development of thermal allodynia, but only when the TENS was delivered on the left side.”(Somers & Clemente) 2 “Indications showed that TENS delivered contralateral to a nerve injury best reduces allodynia development.”(Somers & Clemente) 2 “Comprehensive reduction of allodynia development would need to be a combination of high and low frequency TENS intervention.”(Somers & Clemente) 2
The second journal article I found was about TENS at both high and low rate frequencies reducing primary hyperalgesia in rats with joint

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