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1. How will these instructions help you?
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damage to your appliance.
Note
This symbol draws your attention to particularly
useful information about using your appliance.
The important parts of your appliance are marked with
numbers.
Using these part numbers, you can safely identify the
displays and controls whose significance and use we
explain in this manual. You will therefore find that we have
put the part numbers in brackets at the appropriate points
in these instructions.
2. Background information
2.1 What is pain?
Acute pain (protective pain) is a natural warning system which
draws our attention to the fact that something is wrong with our
bodies. Acute pain helps us to recognise the early onset of disease
and to treat it.
Chronic pain is not a natural condition. It occurs as the result of a
fault in the affected nerve cells and no longer functions as a warning.
Chronic pain is persistent, recurrent pain that lasts for longer than 3
– 6 months. Chronic pain occurs irrespective of its original cause: the original
cause either no longer exists or can no longer be remedied.
2.2 What is TENS?
TENS, Transcutaneous (delivered via the skin) Electrical Nerve Stimulation,
is a valuable method in the treatment of pain. TENS blocks the transmission of
pain signals to the brain. The patient is no longer aware of the pain or is less
aware of it.
2.3 What is EMS?
EMS, Electrical Muscle Stimulation, is a method of physiotherapy that has
been used for many years in preventive medicine and rehabilitation.
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