1. General description
The trans-cutic (through the skin) electrical nerve stimulation – short TENS – is a therapy method
that has been used extremely successfully for decades to treat intense and chronic pain. With
the sanowell Life Tens you have chosen a two-channel-TENS, that will ease or eliminate your pain
through electrical impulses, that may be individually set in duration, intensity, frequency, for
comfortable treatment at home.
Indication
Your physician may prescribe a TENS device for you. Please keep strictly to the doctor’s orders
and have him consult you in correct application of the electrodes. The correct placement is crucial
to the success of your TENS therapy.
2. What is pain?
Under regular circumstances pain has a warning function within the human body, as it brings our
attention to the fact, that something is not okay. Pain is important, as without damage to our body
system would not be discovered and therefore not treated. On the other hand pain especially the
chronic form puts an immense stress on the body and naturally the human soul. Nobody can and
nobody should have to withstand pain for a duration of time.
Pain arises from the brain. Via sensory nerve fi bres of our nervous system diversest information
reach our brain to be interpreted.
3. What is TENS and how does TENS work?
The shortcut TENS (trans-cutic electrical nerve stimulation) depicts the stimulation of nerves by
electrical impulse through the skin. In fi ghting against pain it offers an alternative a-thousand-fold
proven in comparison with drugs, that procure a chemical intervention on the body and by that
often an additional stress.
The TENS therapy bases on the natural body-own system of information transportation. Positive,
as well as negative sensations (as pain) reach the brain by the same nervous system. TENS uses
the fact, that comfortable sensations travel on faster nerve strands than negative ones. That
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