How Will These Instructions Help You; Background Information; What Is Pain; What Is Tens - IBP TENS WL-2103A Manual De Instrucciones

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1. How will these instructions help you?

Warning!
This symbol warns you about possible
damage to your health.
NB!
This symbol draws your attention to
possible damage to your appliance.
Note
This symbol draws your attention to particularly
useful information about using your appliance.
The important parts of your appliance are marked with
numbers.
Using these part numbers, you can safely identify the
displays and controls whose significance and use we explain
in this manual.

2. Background information

2.1 What is pain?

Acute pain (protective pain) is a natural warning system which draws our
attention to the fact that something is wrong with our bodies. Acute pain helps
us to recognise the early onset of disease and to treat it.
Chronic pain is not a natural condition. It occurs as the result of a fault in the
affected nerve cells and no longer functions as a warning.
Chronic pain is persistent, recurrent pain that lasts for longer than 3 – 6
months. Chronic pain occurs irrespective of its original cause – the original
cause either no longer exists or can no longer be remedied.

2.2 What is TENS?

TENS, Transcutaneous (delivered via the skin) Electrical Nerve Stimulation,
is a valuable method in the treatment of pain. TENS blocks the transmission
of pain signals to the brain. The patient is no longer aware of the pain or is
less aware of it.

3. The Well TENS

The Well TENS produces electrical pulses: you can adjust the intensity, rate
(frequency) and amplitude of these pulses to suit your own particular treatment
requirements.
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