Off topic: back muscle pain quickly treated by TENS - Jan 2023

A few times a year a tiny portion of my back would seize up making movement and walking painful
In April 2022 I purchased a $32 TENS machine from Amazon

The next opportunity to use the TENS machine was in Jan 2023
Pain is almost entirely gone after ~ four 30-minute treatments in a single day
It has lots of options - but I only used the defaults on level 3 intensity out of 10

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VitaminDWiki - Back Pain category contains

• Low back pain 2X more likely if very low Vitamin D – meta-analysis Nov 2017
• Lumbar degenerative disc diseases might be fought by Vitamin D Receptor activation– many studies
• Back pain was found in one study to be relieved in 95% of patients by vitamin D
• Vitamin D treats many types of Chronic Pains
• Vitamin D improves bone health, which decreases back problems
• There are 44 items in the Back Pain category in VitaminDWiki
• Magnesium also reduces back pain
  - by reducing muscle tension and improving bones
• Founder of VitaminDWiki found a combination including Vit D plus Mg to be great

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TENS and backpain publications

• THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION (TENS) USING DIFFERENT PARAMETERS AND SITE PLACEMENTS ON PERCEPTION OF PAIN IN CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS - 2022 dissertation. TENS appears to generate natural opiates - http://hdl.handle.net/10106/30280 FREE PDF
• Using TENS for Pain Control: Update on the State of the Evidence - https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58101332 - Sept 2022 - appears to help FREE PDF
• Characterising the Features of 381 Clinical Studies Evaluating Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Pain Relief: A Secondary Analysis of the Meta-TENS Study to Improve Future Research - June 2022 https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58060803 FREE PDF
• Does TENS Reduce the Intensity of Acute and Chronic Pain? A Comprehensive Appraisal of the Characteristics and Outcomes of 169 Reviews and 49 Meta-Analyses - Oct 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57101060
  • "Therefore, we recommend that TENS should be considered as a treatment option."

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In May 2023 the US FDA approved implant nerve stimulation to relieve chronic long-term backpain