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Theory and the patient feels a noxious twitching, electrical sensation between the electrodes. The TENS signals never get to the pain fibers inside the body that are conducting the pain signals. The sensation produced by TENS may act as a distraction from the pain while the device is on, however, there is little residual benefit or functional improvement once the therapy session is over.
High-frequency signals can easily pass through skin, but individually do not effect pain nerves. BioWave’s signal technology is based on the discovery that when two high-frequency signals are added together in the device and then delivered into the body through a single electrode, the signals will pass into deep tissue and affect all polarized tissues, including nerves like pain fibers, tendons, ligaments and muscle tissue. These polarized tissues cause the two high frequency signals to multiply together resulting in an active therapeutic low frequency electrical field focused in approximately a 3.5-inch diameter hemisphere (think of the size of half of a grapefruit) beneath and surrounding each electrode, not across the surface of the skin between the electrodes like TENS. The BioWave active electrical field prevents the transmission of pain signals along these pain fibers, causes a light numbness to form five minutes into the treatment and causes an increase in blood flow in the volume of tissue beneath and surrounding each electrode. The light numbness remains at the treatment site for up to 20 minutes following a 30-minute treatment. Additionally, muscle tissue is held in tension during the treatment, so the treatment feels like a deep
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