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The back and more importantly the spine is one of the largest and most intricate parts of the human body. It provides us with support for our organs; it is flexible enough to allow us to swim and climb and possesses toughness enough to resist damage. Crucially it also forms a safe passage for our nerves allowing our brain to communicate with the rest of our body.
It’s often only when it is no-longer working perfectly and we are suffering from back pain that we come to notice how vital our backs are to us and what a limiting effect back pain has on us on a day to day basis. Back pain can cause a loss in mobility, balance, and self reliance. It has been shown that people with long term (or chronic) back pain are up to four times as likely to also suffer from depression.
Some of the causes of back pain can be avoided by sensible precautions – careful lifting, good posture, appropriate bedding, stretching properly before and after exercise and indeed taking regular gentle exercise. A healthy diet can also help as a preventative against back pain by keeping our weight down (thus reducing the strain on our backs) and providing the necessary sustenance for our bodies to maintain itself.
However there are many conditions that are not so preventable. Some examples of these would include conditions such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (effectively the joints in the spine become damaged or inflamed), cervical spondylosis (where in effect the bones making up the spine progressively degrade causing pressure on the spinal cord leading to not only back pain but also sciatica).
For many of us our goal in managing back pain is to regain some of our lost freedoms – getting dressed, walking up stairs normally, nipping out to the shops for a newspaper, sitting at a computer and typing, cooking and usually most importantly getting a good nights sleep. There are many options out there and many treatments for specific conditions, including pain killing drugs, orthopedic beds and pillows, physiotherapy, acupuncture, electrotherapy and corrective surgery. There is now also a new electrotherapy available called Acticare Transcutaneous Electro Analgesia (TSE).
TSE was designed to bridge the gap between implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators (SCS) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and has been used in hospitals in the UK and at home for the last fifteen years on over 8000 patients. Acticare TSE employs a high energy but almost sensation-free signal that is applied directly to the spine. The TSE signal due to its high frequency and high voltage can directly stimulate the spinal cord through the spine. This allows the TSE device to treat pains all over the body with a single pad placement. Relief from pain using TSE is very quick typically taking just a few minutes of use before analgesia. In many patients TSE also has a persistent cumulative after effect so that repeated half hour treatments can (after a week or so) reduce pain levels for several hours after treatment finishes.
You can order Acticare TSE online or for Australian residents if you call us on 1800 07 04 08 you can pay by four monthly installments so you can own an Acticare device for the equivalent of as little as 25 dollars per week . Of course in the unlikely event that you find that Acticare TSE is not appropriate for you for any reason then as long as you return the device within 28 days of receipt you will get a full refund. The only cost to you will be return postage (which is approximately 6-10 dollars in Australia). To try Acticare TSE now, click here.
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