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Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation
Tens unit as described in your definition. You connect device with wires attached to your skin which stimulate skin by small electric impuse.
Dr. Indravadan Gatiwala reviewed this
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A 40-year old asked:
Will I have to get poked with a needle when I get a transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation?
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A 34-year old asked:
What is transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation used for?
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A 32-year old asked:
Who benefits the most from transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation?
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A 33-year old asked:
Can transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation deal with back pain?
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A 35-year old asked:
Could you safely put a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) machine over the liver?
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A 39-year old asked:
Does transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for mummular headache or other head pain work?
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A 36-year old asked:
Can guys ejaculate instantly with electric prostate stimulation?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Got electric shock to scrotum 8mo ago. Difficulty orgasming w/o mental stimulation and penis/testicles feel less sensitive than 1yr ago. Prognosis?
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A 41-year old asked:
Irritated nerves in neck and upper back/electric "zaps"/causes?
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A 45-year old asked:
Can I use electric muscle & nerve stimulator on my own (tens)?
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A 35-year old male asked:
After bad reaction to sudephedrine, loud or sudden sounds/movements/lights make my nerves feel like its being electric shocked.Propranolol right med?
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A 57-year old female asked:
I sometimes have a buzzing / electric feeling in my foot which is continual and can last for a long time. Is that from nerves? What can I do about it?
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A male asked:
When your nerve burns is a neuropathy, and when your nerve fires electric shock like pain is a neuralgia. Am I right?
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A 44-year old female asked:
Recently had a spinal tap and was told I had a grisly spine and needle kept hitting nerves and bone, since been having electric shock n extreme pain?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Last 2 years, dull achy feeling in fingers as well as spasms and electric shocks. I've had an MRI and nerve conduction done. Any ideas would be great.
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A 35-year old female asked:
Both hips will pop and i feel like someone plucked the nerve like a guitar string. I feel the electric shock all the way down to my foot. Cause?
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A 32-year old female asked:
since 1day all of a sudden very painful electric shocks on the bridge of foot. Only happens with foot movements. Could this be back problem?nerves?
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A 61-year old male asked:
My right thumb is numb on the left side. If I move it in a certain way I get what feels like an electric shock in my thumb, Is that a pinched nerve.
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A 32-year old female asked:
Sometimes during the evening i get like little electric nerve cramps in my lower back and legs it's not painful but annoying is it from being tired?
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A 29-year old male asked:
Tinel sign(electric shock) on tapping lesion site again developed 2 months after excision of radial nerve schwannoma of arm, does this mean recurrence?
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A 54-year old female asked:
Its 3 weeks after leep procedure and on having sharp pain like an electric current attack like 6-7 times then goes away on its own and then get it again after a few hours the same way. Is it nerve damage or infection or something else?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Morning after drinking, intense finger spasms & electric shocks through fingers. All fingers excluding thumbs. MRI, Nerve conduct done Pain for 2 year?
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A female asked:
I have numb scalp on the right side of my head start losing my hair and my scalp sometimes feel like there is electric shock. Is it nerve damage?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Nerve damage in ball of foot.When i press is certain spot it send electric shocks on toes.Tried injection, on lyrica but not woking. Wiil it heal?
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A 58-year old male asked:
I have very bad pain for 1/12 in my knee. Had surgery, MRI xrays nerve study. Now I have electric shock waves in my knee. Could it be rsd?
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A 54-year old female asked:
Sharp pain like an electric shock shooting across the right side of my arm going across my chest. I have had an MRI and have been told I have trapped nerve that is causing weakness in my right leg, could this be causing the pain in my arm/ chest?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Nerve damage in ball of foot, when i press in certain spot it sends electric shocks in toes. Mri normal. Tried injection. On lyrica not helping?
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A female asked:
I went downhill skiing and now when i bend my right knee i get a sharp almost electric pain in my 3rd toe on the same leg. Do I have nerve damage?
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A 19-year old male asked:
While I was using my electric stim machine on my shoulder, I placed the electrode near my bicep tendon where it connects to my shoulder. The voltage wasn't too high but I still feel a tingle travelling down my arm. Could I have caused nerve damage?
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A 30-year old female asked:
popped' thoracic spine hugging someone 10 days ago. excruciating pain in thoracic spine, electric radiating around ribs into chest. MRI & X-rays normal! muscular?? feels like nerves more than muscles though. what could be?
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