the 'accupoint' pen version...Let me tell you that DOES set off NERVES big time! If you mean the attach contacts and plug in kind, whole different kettle of fish.
I guess My concern would be regarding stimulation of one severely sensorily compromised and the ultimate safety of such contact instruments...IF one can feel NOTHING from a particular area [all nerve endings being compromised] any contacts could be doubly/triply-dangerous would they not?
IF it were my back, spine and related areas, it shouldn't be a problem, but with the peripheral areas...I have not found much to direct appropariate therapies other than the tens-accupoint...do you know of any particular research or feedback regarding this tool that might be beneficial?
For me it is the 'sensorily dead' peripherals...I found for a short term of PT that That Pen worked in waking up dead nerves...or dormant ones? It did wake them up BOLDLY! Justification for the appliance would be a whole other matter. According to one PTherapist, a script has to be written and 'instructions' given..I was the one who found the 'protocols' for the therapists in the 2 different handbooks..Duh. How hard can it be?
Issue for me is I do not have any 'breakthrough' pain...it is constant, unrelenting, unremitting, and unforgiving. Please articulate the differences...I believe some new folks here do not know of these differences.
I have done "Alexander, Feldenkrais, Rolfing, reflex, accupressure, T.E.A.M. techniques and a few others. Some experiences have been with national 'gurus' of these philosphies....and/or their acolytes... But I went in well versed and grounded as to what I viewed the pros and cons' of any approach to 'HEALING'. I still do. I will end here. - j