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TENS works by stimulating your body's own natural defensces against pain

The Tens Machine transmits gentle, electrical impulses through your skin via self-adhesive electrode pads positioned on or around the painful area.

These gentle impulses attack pain in two ways:
  • by stimulating the release of endorphins, the body’s own pain-relieving hormones
  • by stimulating the nerves to block pain signals before they reach the brain

Conventional TENS relieves pain by having a direct effect on the pathway the pain is taking into the central nervous system. It reduces the sensitivity of the cells which transmit the pain onwards up towards the brain. Stimulation by TENS of the large non-pain nerves can reduce the activity of the pain transmitting cells for two hours.

More intense TENS stimulates the small pain-transmitting nerves, causing activation of the inhibitory mechanisms from other areas of the nervous system. It also tends to block nerve impulses going along a nerve in a sort of “busy telephone line” effect. All the pain and all the TENS cannot get along the nerve, reducing the amount of pain signals which can get through.

When TENS signals enter the nerves, they travel both ways, up to the spinal cord and down to where the nerves start in the bodily tissue in the painful area.  These impulses collide with upcoming pain impulses and knock them out, reducing the total pain getting through.


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