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  1. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776291 fascinating article on ACU-TENS
  2. Recent studies have demonstrated that chronic pain harms cortical areas unrelated to pain (Apkarian et al. 2004b; Acerra and Moseley, 2005)
  3. Chronic pain is a nerve condition that lingers long after the immediate, or acute, pain-causing stimulus has receded.
  4. Overdoses on prescriptions drugs (largely opioids) now kill nearly 15,000 people a year in the US:more than heroin and cocaine combined.
  5. A good read: huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/p…
  6. More evidence that pain killers aren't the answer: dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
  7. What some Chinese medicine refers to as "flow of Ch'i" is what the western tradition would later identify as the flow of bioelectricity.
  8. As far back as 46 BCE Scribonius Largus, physician to the Roman Emperor, effectively used electric rays for their analgesic effect.
  9. youtube.com/watch?v=AQGdgf…
  10. TENS units at low pulse rate settings should be felt :"firmly" and create a pulsing sensation.
  11. High pulse rate TENS unit settings feel like tingling and these treatments may need to be applied for an hour or more, on the same setting.
  12. Relieve pain balancing your omega fatty acid intake (omega 3/omega 6) to as close to a 1:1 ratio as possible will reduce inflammation.
  13. A TENS unit set on a high pulse rate (90-130 Hz) triggers the 'pain gate' to close. The unit stimulates certain non-pain-carrying nerves.
  14. youtube.com/watch?v=gUux6O…
  15. People with chronic backaches have brains as much as 11 percent smaller than those of non-sufferers according to a 2004 report,
  16. An estimated that 40-50% of pain patients fail to achieve adequate pain relief. Don't be a statistic.
  17. Electrical stimulation for pain management has been used since as early as 63 AD when Scribonius Largus used electrical in shallow water
  18. haelu.blogspot.com/2011/11/we-are…
  19. Unrelieved pain after surgery increases heart rate, systemic vascular resistance, and circulating catecholamines
  20. TENS has been shown to be effective at reliving labor pains (Van Der Spank et al, 2000)