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pain management physicians

Thousands of veterans live with chronic pain due to traumatic combat injury and/or direct damage to the nervous
system. One in three Americans Vets suer from chronic pain. Often pain can be a grouping of invisible, subjective
symptoms that take a huge physical and emotional toll on the veteran, as well as family and friends. Chronic pain can
also be nancially draining, which can exacerbate feelings of loss and actually increase the patient’s pain.

As untreated chronic pain continues to rise, so do prescriptions for powerful painkillers such as Hydrocodone,
Percocet, Vicodin, OxyContin and generics, as well as an increase in emergency-room visits and deaths from illicit
use of opioid drugs. There is growing evidence that opioid drugs are being prescribed to veteran patients when they're
not necessarily warranted for such conditions as acute infections and heart problems. Three-quarters of prescription
drug overdoses are now attributed to painkillers.

The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), a medical specialty society representing physicians practicing
in the eld of Pain Medicine, is committed to overcoming professional and social obstacles to alleviate human pain.

This commitment includes new evidence-based ndings and concepts about pain, its assessment and treatment.
Pain medicine practitioners, who have incorporated the Tennant Biomodulator and Transducer as a non-drug
solution and non-surgical alternative into their practice, are seeing phenomenal pain reduction and healing results
in their patients.

Case Study

A soldier had seven operations on his wrist from a war injury that sliced the nerve and tendons. He developed a severely
painful condition also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (formerly referred to as Reex Sympathetic Dystrophy).
He was in constant pain and lived on opioid pain medications. His hand was white and swollen. He had movement in only his
thumb and index nger. After treatment with the Tennant Biomodulator, the soldier stated that he could move his ngers

and the pain was gone. Treatment occurred within a military facility in Texas. The soldier requested, and was granted, further
drug-free treatments with the Tennant Biomodulator. Today, he is pain free, drug free and his hand is fully functional.