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OCR: TO BE IN CONSTANT and pro- longed pain is a dreadful condi- Tek Stop: 500 S/s 1 Acqs L tion and while analgesics can help, they cannot be used long-term without the risk of kidney and liver damage plus other side effects. The alternative method to pain relief is with the use of a TENS Unit. These are now regularly used to help pain Ch1 Pk-PK victims with a good success rate. 80 V TENS is an acronym for Transcuta- neous Electrical Neural Stimulation. This description can be simplified to a method which passes pulses of elec- trical current through the skin via elec- trodes to stimulate the nerves below. This stimulation tends to prevent transmission across the nerve junc- tions and so the brain does not receive the pain signal. An alternative sugges- tion of why the TENS unit works in relie ...