TENS unit anyone else have one? (Fixed Image)

[blightcp]

I just got a tens unit for PN and i love it. I seems to work great when placed at S4 using lower back pain settings.

I found this chart as a refrence it shows what patrs of the spine control what areas and where electrodes should/could go.
http://www.medi-stim.com/overview/image ... Cchart.jpg

Does anyine else have one? where do you place the electrodes?

[janetm2]

Where you said is the place I put the electrodes, S4. The 24 & 25 on the chart for the bottom 2 electrodes and the top two will be above, guidance was the bottom 2 just above the butt crack. I have not used in awhile but in pain today so may be a good idea to start again.
Janet

[blightcp]

The only location i have tried is 24 and 25. But it seems to work.

I can feel it at times holding back the pain if that maked sense.

When the occasional shooting pain makes it through, i can feel it disrupted in kind of a "buzzy" way. Less intense at least.

[blightcp]

Where you said is the place I put the electrodes, S4. The 24 & 25 on the chart for the bottom 2 electrodes and the top two will be above, guidance was the bottom 2 just above the butt crack. I have not used in awhile but in pain today so may be a good idea to start again.
Janet

I had a flare up starting this moring when it got up, burning and sore in the left groin, it usually takes 3-4 hours to get it under cotroll with pain meds and i basicly have to curl into a ball and try to sleep it off.

I put on the tens around 24-25 on the chart on the post above and it shut it down, it still sensative but i'm not in pain. I'm on my normal pain medication, i did not have to increade it get a breakthrough effect.

[Violet M]

I loved my tens unit after surgery -- for the OI spasms and piriformis. I can't get that link to work though so can't comment very well on the placement.

Violet