Chronic pain patients often experience pain in more than one area and it’s very important the patient be able to adjust the intensity of the tens unit for each separate area when treating. This article discusses the pathology of chronic pain and the necessity to be able to self treat without drugs on an as needed basis with a tens or interferential or combination pain machine.

If you are not used to exercising or if you are used to having a sedentary lifestyle, abruptly having an exercise regimen will definitely cause your muscles to become painful. Actually, this is a condition referred to as delayed onset muscle pain and soreness.

If you’re in chronic pain and no one believes you, you’re in good company. If you’re a follower of sports, you’ve occasionally read about someone being accused of faking an injury. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.

One of the most common medical conditions experienced by both adults and children is sore throat. A sore throat occurs when the pharynx is inflamed.

People generally describe their body pain and health concerns in terms that they think the healthcare provider in front of them wants to hear. However, because of this many important things that can and do affect their health in the course of their activities in daily living (ADL), are omitted from the dialogue.

Shoulder rotator cuff injury is quite common among sportspersons, especially those sports where the shoulders take a major part of the load or where a lot of shoulder rotation is required. The sports where rotator cuff muscles, especially the supra – and infra – spinatus muscles are put under a lot of stress include swimming, rowing, bowling actions in cricket, baseball, etc. These types of injuries are also common in jobs that require similar movement of the arms and shoulders as in stacking of heavy loads on a regular basis.

Having shoulder pain is a very common ailment that afflicts practically everyone at some point in their lives and is something quite a few persons have to live with, especially as they grow older. Since the causes for shoulder rotator cuff pain are many, it is important that a correct diagnosis is made before proper treatment is started, as otherwise the symptoms will remain and often get worse, rendering the arm that is used for so many of our day to day activities useless, in extreme cases.

Tinnitus is a medical condition where a patient perceives to hear a ringing sound in their ears even if there is no actual external source of the sound. Tinnitus is a very mild condition which is why a lot of people dismiss this medical condition as nothing more that a nuisance. However, ignoring the ringing in your ears can cause permanent damage to your hearing.

Like headaches, most people will experience pain at least once in their lives. Also like headaches, for most people, pain is temporary and annoying, not debilitating.

Inflammation of a specific or even a general area in the shoulder joint is called shoulder rotator cuff tendonitis, also often referred to as shoulder bursitis or the more common ‘shoulder stiffness’. Theoretically, there is a distinction between tendonitis and bursitis, with the former concerning inflammation of the tendons themselves, and the latter referring to the bursa surrounding the tendons getting inflamed.