Placement of Leads for a Man

[tjon]

Can any one tell me how the TENS unit is affixed. ie. what parts of the body do you attach the electrodes and is it easy to do at home. I'm a guy, so it may be a bit different?

Cheers

[icnmgrjill]

Great question and I don't have a perfect answer for you.

I used my tens unit for pain control... and placed my leads on the inside of my thigh (about 2" below the crotch and then another 3" below that) rather than over my bladder. Why?? Because my approach was to create an alternate location/source of stimulation other than my bladder... aka the spinal gate theory.

Just remember the CARDINAL RULE of tens! If it HURTS in anyway, you're doing it WRONG!!! TENS therapy should never be painful and, if it is, you could be damaging the nerves down there. Atleast, that's what happened with one patient who deliberately had the intensity to high. She thought that having it higher would help. Turned out that it badly damaged the nerves.

Jill :)

[lalarainbow]

Hi,
The place my uro told me to put atleast one of the pads was on the inside of your leg along the shin bone about half way between knee and ankle..Kind of hard to describe it.. but he said there was connection to the bladder somehow.. Maybe a pressure point or a spot for accupuncture????? I usually put the pads on my lower back..because I can get alot of pain there as well..Hope you can find a spot that helps you..
~~Pam~~

[ibtracy]

I'm not sure if it's different from a woman to a man but my physical therapist has me put mine on the inside of my pelvic bones on my lower tummy basically and then at the boney points of my lower buttocks. This really helps with my IC pain but I see you've been given some other good locations as well that I've not tried.

Good luck and I hope this helps. You could always contact your physcial therapist or urologist to ask where his/her primary lead locations would be for you and your pain. Everyone's different and like Jill said if it hurts you're not doing something right or it's too much stimulation, you need to try a lower setting.

Good luck, keep us posted, okay?

Tracy :)