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TENS/EMS for Leg stimulation

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  • 25-11-2009 12:59pm
    #1
    L_gaucho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I have a family member with Lymphatic cancer, who is wheelchair bound due to cancer in her lumbar node. She has been getting physio on her legs, but the physio recommended electrotherapy to keep the legs muscles active.
    Can any recommend a Tens machine, or EMS (elctronic muscle stimulator), based on experience?
    (there are unit on ebay, and here

    http://physiosupplies.ie/acatalog/Blood_Pressure_Monitors___TENS_Machines.html

    Thanks


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    #2
    squeky
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭squeky


    your physio should recommend a good one to get and where you will get it!


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    L_gaucho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭L_gaucho


    squeky wrote: »
    your physio should recommend a good one to get and where you will get it!

    'based on experience?'

    There are many machines... hence why I'm polling for 1st hand experience. (its more complicated than above statement, family member is in South america)


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    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    L_gaucho wrote: »
    'based on experience?'

    There are many machines... hence why I'm polling for 1st hand experience. (its more complicated than above statement, family member is in South america)

    But how would you know that a person who tells you about their own experience is in a comparable situation to your relative? You might receive a load of info that was very relevant to the person giving it, but completely irrelevant to the person the treatment is for. Have your relative talk to his/her own physio and/or doctor about this, so that the advice s/he gets is relevant to him/her.
    It is stupid and dangerous to ask for advice from randomers on the internet.


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    squeky
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭squeky


    Get the family member in south america to talk to there own physio and they would sort them out, i have a spinal cord stimulator, google that and see what you think of it, its an implanted device but does the same thing as a tens machine, but on a wider scale throught the body, medtronic make it.

    but my situation is different so you relation should be talking to there own physio about there own condition, that why i sugggested that in the 1st place besides getting smart with me who just answered your question!!!


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    L_gaucho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭L_gaucho


    Thanks for the responses guys. Loco-motion, I am only looking for additional information, no decisions will be taken without advice from a physio.
    Thanks Squeky, your response was the reason I posted the query in the first place. (ie to see what equipment is out there)


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