TENS (Transdermal Electro Neural Stimulation) helps by;

- Interfering directly with pain signals. The TENS unit substitutes its own frequency and pulse.

- Interfering indirectly with pain signals by a process called lateral inhibition. If you stimulate a nerve, the adjoining nerves are inhibited. Instead of coming from a point like your locus of pain, the TENS stimulation comes from one or more large (1-2 inch across) pads, or better yet, in a Epsom salts solution bath so that the pain locus is inhibited.

- Stimulating the production of endorphins, the body's own natural pain killer and healing agent, in the synapses where nerves meet.

- There is a large body of research that TENS and other micro-electrostimulation help heal nerves and reestablish synapses.

TENS and other electrostimulators don't irritate the nerves, they calm them down IF USED PROPERLY!!

I don't use exclamation points often, but this is important. Understand what you're doing before doing anything to the damaged nerves and nerve endings in your poor feet, legs, spine, hands, etc.

Somebody in the old forum, for example, reported that the ReBuilder had caused bad pain that lasted for days. It turns out that they had turned up the level as high as it goes. As the instructions say, you're supposed to start where you can't feel it, and slowly increase the level to where you feel a tingle but no pain.

The same principle applies to ANY therapy, including pain killers and supplements. If a little is good and good for you, a lot may make it worse and may be extremely harmful.