What is the Therapeutic effects of TENS?

[quorthon]

many thories behind it like the so-called GATE THEORY of melzack and wall but in practice is U-S-E-L-E-S-S...of course if u need "placebo" effects in your treatment regime which is acceptable u can use it quite well....But as far the PHYSIOLOGICAL effect in tissues, u just waste time with TENS and with many other electrotherapeutic modalities!

[physiochile]

The main function of TENS is to inhibit pain ( theory).... now as far as how to use it in Physiotherapy .. its mainly used to decrease pain before manual treatment... but yeah i agree with quorton and TENS has been used wrongly at least in my country ... many physios use too much electrotherapeutic modalities and dont use their hands or dont prescribe exercise .. which is the physios main function... hope this helps