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Originally Posted by taliainpain
Hello, and I'm so glad I found this site. I'm 25 years old and I was in a car accident on November 18th. Since then I have had neck and upperback pain, really bad migraines, numbness in my arms and hands, and a tingling sensation. I also have had a bad case of the dropsies. My lawyer referred me to a chiropractor. Well he's been hooking me up to a tens unit that has literally burned my skin. Finally he said let's get an MRI. The MRI shows a 3 MM bulging disc in my neck. He didn't really tell me what that means or what kind of treatment we need to do. Or even where the bulge is other than my neck. The tens unit is not helping for more than about an hour. I've been reading and everyone has all their technical information up and I'm a little confused. But I'm so frustrated because I haven't been able to do normal daily things, like wash dishes and cook without intense pain. What am I doing wrong and can anyone help explain things to me?
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Is the lawyer one you've known for awhile or just found due to the injury - personal injury atty?
Unless he is highly rated as an atty (online, web searches etc) I would wonder if he just refers to a nearby "friendly" DC that will work up a claim and not really be there for you as a patient. How to say it delicately - ambulance chaser types?? not to delicate -but just asking - it's hard to tell sometimes.
I would do some webs searches on both of them to see if they have good reviews/ratings
My dad has to wear his TENS for most of the day- it usually is used for pain blocking.
Some of the other kinds of E stims will do more for healing or muscle, nerve or cell actions.
more on the stim /TENS - blisters or burns-
You could have the blisters due to allergic reaction of the adhesive on the pads - usually the wire portion of the stim is centered on the pad so I think the burn spots would tend to appear in the center of the pads instead of the edges.
I have a EMS (muscle) stim at home so I do know a bit about them as well as IF stim my chiro uses and a PT place used a nerve type stim a few times for me , but it was yrs ago so I don't recall the exact name of it.
Did it feel like it was zapping/hurting you at any time - that would tell you if it was at too high of a setting.