If you suffer from chronic pain or want to treat acute pain drug-free, you may find the relief you need from a TENS unit. Using a process called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, TENS units ...

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with AUVON. If muscle tension is something you deal with regularly—whether it’s from long hours at a desk or tough workouts—a compact TENS unit can be ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease, along with scoliosis from childhood polio. A few weeks ago, I developed sciatica and started a course of physical therapy, but ...

A TENS machine is small -- about the size of an iPad mini. It’s connected to a series of electrodes, which are put on your skin to deliver a low-voltage electrical charge. The electrical pulses ...

Mark Yu, the man behind the portable iPhone-enabled TENS unit U-Gym, is back with a crowdfunded project called U-Gym Mini, a muscle stimulator intended for pain treatment. AppleInsider went hands-on ...

Medicare will often cover the rental costs of a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) unit if a person needs it for some chronic (long-term) pain conditions or acute (short-term) pain ...

This is a tough question to give answers to. If you die, we may be liable. If you use it to treat diabetic nerve damage, we may be practicing medicine without a license. So, the only folks who can ...