About Pain:                                              Dr Tens Provides Relief for a Myriad of Painful Ailments Pain affects Millions of Australians and Costs Billions in Health Care and Lost Work

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Pain can have a negative impact on a person's quality of life and impede recovery from illness or injury. It might keep you from being active, from sleeping well, from enjoying family and friends, and from eating. When you have pain, you may also feel many emotions, including sadness, helplessness, fear, or anger. Unrelieved pain can become a syndrome in its own right and cause a downward spiral in a person's health and outlook.

Managing pain properly facilitates recovery, prevents additional health complications, and improves an individual's quality of life.

It is estimated that disabling pain, acute or chronic, affects millions of Australians and costs billions of dollars a year in health care and lost work. Pain is the most common reason for visits to physicians and other practitioners. And it is vastly under diagnosed, under treated or mistreated. People who have never experienced chronic pain have no idea of its effects, how it can affect the quality of their lives.

Unfortunately, pain management is not given much time in a doctor's training. Many physicians, in spite of their oath to relieve pain, have relatively few skills and even less enthusiasm to deal with the complex problems that pain inflicts. Commonly, drugs have been the most familiar method of treating pain.

Most pain sufferers usually turn to prescription and over-the-counter drugs. While drugs often provide temporary relief, they do carry risks and side effects.

For a vast majority of people with acute or chronic pain, quality of life is often greatly improved if pain can be controlled or eliminated.

But drugs don't have to be your first line of defence against pain. Dr TENS is a proven, non-invasive, drugless method for effectively controlling pain. Rather than attempt to resolve pain chemically, as with drugs, Dr TENS applies a small electric current to certain parts of nerves, interrupting pain signals and inducing release of endorphins.

The use of low intensity electrical stimulation delivered by surface electrodes is known as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, or "TENS." Modern TENS devices are portable and battery operated and specifically designed for use at home as an adjunctive and non-medicinal means of pain control.

Knowledge of TENS as a home-use means of pain control is usually only obtained through interaction with a physical therapist or physician. This has significantly hindered the application and use of TENS by the public.

The public is therefore very ill-informed about TENS and is generally unaware of its benefit as a non-medicinal alternative to pain control.

What's more, until recently TENS devices have been confusing to operate and inconvenient to use.

Now, Dr TENS has re-thought and revolutionized TENS technology to make it small, convenient, simple to operate, and affordable.

Dr TENS has long been approved for reimbursement as a medical device by Private Health Insurance companies.