What is a TENS?

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. The treatment consists of passing mild electrical impulses through the skin, via electrode pads. TENS impulses help your body produce its own pain-killing substances, such as endorphins.

**Resource: ‘A women’s guide to drug free pain relief. By Dr Gordon Gadsby. May 2018

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Benefits of use

  • Drug free, non invasive form of labor pain management

  • Laboring woman is in control of the machine at all times

  • Can and should begin use in early labor

  • Free to move around while in use

  • Can use in conjunction with an IV and other pain medications

  • Able to stop use at any given time if desired

  • No known side effects to mother or baby

should not use

  • Prior to 37 weeks gestation

  • If one has a cardiac pacemaker

  • If one has a history of seizure

  • If care provider does not approve of use

  • In water

 
 
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