The word ‘pain’ has many connotations, but can be adequately defined as “, a localized physical suffering associated with a bodily disorder such as a disease or injury.”   Since his inception, Man has struggled against pain. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, science and technology have developed numerous medications and machines that are specifically designed to alleviate the physical discomfort associated with injury and disease.  With pain costing a record twenty-four billion dollars for Americans’ medical appointments and prescriptions, the medical consumer is asking “, is there a better, faster less costly solution?” Gladly, doctors and healthcare providers respond “, yes, there are many.” One of the most innovative and state-of-the-art methods of pain relief is TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation).

What is it and how does it work?

TENS Pain Relief is achieved through the systematic and continuous application of mild electrical currents to affected muscle-groups. The admission of these currents into a pain-racked body momentarily blocks the brain’s pain receptors, and has also been demonstrated to manipulate the body’s adrenal glands. While these glands, which every human possesses, are most often associated with nearly inhuman increases in physical strength, speed, and agility during stressful or terrifying situations, these glands also provide the body with natural pain killers called endorphins. This information suggests that TENS Pain Relief uses both technology and the body’s own natural defenses to offer fast and effective relief to users.

How was this treatment developed?

TENS Pain Relief was first achieved on a wide scale in the United States when Doctors Charles Ray and Don Maurer along with several other inventors and investors developed portable, inexpensive machines at  Medtronic in the early 1970’s.  However, the negating effects of electrical currents have been widely known and researched in the West for many centuries.  For example, the Greek physician, Scribonius Largus, observed that people’s pains and aches subsided when they stood on electrically charged aquatic creatures such as eels and certain species of fish. America’s most famous inventor, Benjamin Franklin, also believe that a patient’s pain and suffering could be assuaged with the scientific and careful application of electric currents to affected areas.