TENS unit How to use a TENS unit

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Hi My Name Is Brad Hynek Im,

a physical therapist and this is Lindsay and she’s my patient today and she has problems with her elbow here, tennis elbow or technically. It’s a lateral epicondylitis a lot of pain right here in that elbow. If I were to touch it. Lindsay would not be happy with me right yeah. This has been bothered you for quite some time over six months.

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Doll Isnt It And You Went

to the doctor. You’ve taken pain pills and with your job. You know a hard time get to the day and the physician that ordered tens unit and again the tins units to help manage the pain. Lindsay has tried pain medication and bad response to it okay help set stomach things like that are going on and so we want to limit the pain medication and this is an ideal situation for. A UK unit Okay Lindsay I’m just going to explain to you a little bit how this works okay here’s the tens unit.

This Is The Box We Gather Them

right here. Okay the box was a lot bigger than it needs to be Cuz when it comes down to this is what you’re actually going to use the nice thing about this is two UK tens unit. They give you a nice users manual that you can read is written for a layperson all make sense to you so after you go home. If you can’t remember some of the instructions you can refer to this and they also have a UK in here you can plug that into your UK and also get some instructions so that back up information when you go home all right now this runs on batteries. There’s two double-a batteries right in the back there they’ve already installed those for you and okay there’s two layers coming off you’re put together and then they separate here we call bifurcate into the electrons.

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Okay Now I Want You Get

real excited about having you know getting electrically. This is a very small amount of electricity. Okay We’re talking milliamps, which is very small you Don’t want to get one. I just write you to put this on your elbow keep it there. Don’t go experimenting for a headache or anything like that all right let’s stick to what we’re dealing with all right.

So Were Going To Take The Electrodes Off

and they’re on this pan here. You don’t want to grab it by the electrode and pull out because we like the wire because it can cause problems with the connection and then you have issues with things that are working properly so right. Here is where that pain is I’m going to go above it okay placement electrodes to make a big difference on how effective the unit works. So this is not the only way to do it. But this is the way I find it effective in below it now why Don’t.

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You Push It Out Because You Know

how much that hurts okay okay early end of the therapist. I’ve done this right push too much and I hit the painful spot makes a person jump with pain that does not develop with rapport with the patient. So I’ll let the patient do it yourself oftentimes all right now on this unit. I’m going to do it so they can see on the video. It’s a nice simple unit okay.

Theres An On/Off Button So Im Just

going to turn it on this will start at zero. There will be no current running to your to be involved area when you start it it happens a independent shirt off. It goes back to zero down here. There’s buttons or the area involved and you can see right here. There’s an elbow button okay so it’s set up so that the current.

Is Going To Be Modulated For

the specific aim so I’m going to push that there okay there’s the indicator and what I’m going to do. It is here’s an up-arrow and a down arrow. You see it says Channel 1 and channel 2 this for two areas or get one argyria. You can put in another wire and you can do another channel. This is channel wander if you another we’re off for Channel 2 we’re just going to deal with one channel Okay Brad would you show again where that channel 2 wire would come out sure sure right up on top you can see ok the hole right there.

Ok I Just Havent Pulled The Other Way

around, but it’s in there so you would have four electrodes on it exactly four electrodes if you only need to stick to two it makes it simpler to. use in the setup etc. So and the batteries last longer as well okay up arrow down arrow that’s what you need to deal with and I’m going to let you push the up arrow She’s just going to push it down and bring it up. If you push it hold it it’s going to ramp up continuously it might be a little more than you want and you don’t want that your honor you don’t have no surprises. I mean you’re not going to get hurt, but it might make you jump a little bit so just be cautious booth so why don’t you go ahead and if you don’t use it for a certain amount of time.

It Will Turn On Automatic Rinse Or Turn

the background go ahead okay a point five Milliamps keep going you’ll feel like it pins a needle sensation Initially do you feel. that yet keep going everyone sensation level is different you start feeling out yeah, What does it feel like it’s a little tingly okay. You feel it over this pattern this pattern bow okay keep going up okay keep going now does that start to mask over the pain in your elbow Yes what you want to do is continue to go up and bring that up to a level where it covers up that pain okay keep going there’s a tolerable yeah okay do you feel like you could go more that commercial. I think that’s about as high okay very good. Then you’re going to hold it right there now one thing you do not want to do is put this on leave it on all day long okay you’re going to leave it on there’s parameters.

I Want Im Going To Ask

you to do is not. go longer than 30 minutes okay, Then you’re going to turn it off. There should be some after effects so it’s going to continue to manage that pain after you leave it off and while you’re at work, you’re going to put this we’re going to have to keep these lawyers out of the way and put it under your sleeve and I like to put this there’s a belt holder on the side on right now When you put that on your belt. You can put in your pocket okay and you’re going to remember to turn it off after 30 minutes continue to do your work and you’ll feel it’ll continue to manage that pain when you come up to another party work where you know that typically irritated excite you’re going to work. Some have your lifting and working they’re handsome or you know what all you.

Stressed Thats The Time You Want To Turn

it on when it’s most irritated okay when you do an other part of your job and relaxing an arm. It doesn’t bother anyways Don’t use it then because it’s not the appropriate use Okay Y’all wear out the batteries and also your body can acclimate to this it will become no more effective okay so take this home with you work with it I’m going to see you again in two more days. You’ll probably have some questions review the material and it should work out real well about this unit is. This is exactly how I work with all my patients. I give them the same information and come back and a couple days typically whatever works in the schedule and we get out all the details.

If Theres Any Questions I Very Effective In

Lindsey‘s case it’s going to. work well to eliminate the use of pain, pills and all those side effects bothers young something that I only wanted to say Brad that sup with some patients. After about five minutes they do tend to acclimate to it and and and therefore at that time they may want to bump it up a little more sure at that time. One nice thing on this unit and all units will have something like this after you still feel it right okay now if you tried to bump this up now after not using it for a few minutes.

Youll Push This Button And Nothing Will Happen

okay. It’s a safety feature so that if you put in your pocket you lean forward and some your pocket your keys hits that button shoots the way up make you jump up and you hear and scream up looking good you don’t. want that so that’s an automatic clock So if I push up right now nothing happens right so what you have to do is push the down or the down arrow Okay now that unlocks it. It went down and then you ramped up manually again and that’s just a safety feature and all the units will have some type of feature.

Like That So You Dont Have An Accidental

ramp up the other thing. I would say brad is always remind a patient never take the electrodes off while the machine is on exactly I mean you’ll get you’ll get zinged one thing a therapist always put these on ourselves. We practice with at first so we know what you’re experiencing and we’ve made mistakes and we can tell you so and you can learn from our mistakes okay okay very good.

Summary

Physical therapist Brad Hynek explains how to use the device to manage the pain of a patient’s elbow . Lindsay has tried pain medication and bad response to it okay help set stomach things like that are going on and so we want to limit the pain medication . This is an ideal situation for Lindsay, who has problems with her elbow here, tennis elbow or technically.& Lindsay would not be happy with me right yeah.& Don’t go experimenting for a headache or a headache.& This is a very small amount of electricity.& We’re talking milliamps, which is very small you Don’t want to get one.& There’s two double-a batteries right in the back there they’ve already installed those for you and okay there’s two layers coming off you’re put together and then they separate here we call bifurcate into the electrons. They separate here to separate here and then the separate here.& Now I want you get real excited about having you know…. Click here to read more and watch the full video