TENS (Transcutaneous electrical Nerve stimulation)



Definition: TENS means transcutaneous Electrical Nerve stimulate is a specialized form of electrical stimulation that is designed to reduce pain in contrast to to her forms of electrical stimulation used either to produce muscle contraction or nerve stimulation.

Indications:

1.     Post traumatic pain
2.     Post surgical pain
3.     Phantom pain
4.     Causalgia (nerve pain)
5.     Pain of arthritis
6.     Low back pain
7.     Neck pain
8.     Post herptic pain
9.     Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
10.                        First stage of labor during child birth
11.                        Diabetic neuropathy
12.                        Peripheral nerve injury
13.                        Peripheral vascular diseases
14.                        Post phlebitis syndrome

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