| There are a lot of good, quite recent products | | | | No longer must a patient wait to hurt and then seek |
| coming in the marketplace every week. Many of the | | | | help or guess at the next "pain episode" but now its |
| products are in the medical industry as a result of | | | | stop the pain cycle and skip the "start hurting, get |
| cost containment and better treatment outcomes. | | | | treatment" cycle. |
| Some of these are very promising and are worth an | | | | Absolutely nothing is perfect, including interferential |
| additional look. Some of these have distinguished | | | | pain machines, but since this form of treatment has |
| themselves amongst their users, and are now being | | | | been around since 1953 as an exclusive treatment for |
| spoken well of around the medical forums and are | | | | health practitioners, it is now possible for the patient |
| also growing rapidly in user acceptance. Among those | | | | to self treat and make their own determination to |
| that are looking really good within the product | | | | the efficacy. |
| category of non drug treatments for pain relief, is | | | | Possibly the main drawback to the interferential pain |
| one called interferential pain machines, IF, or | | | | machines is how to use them effectively. It is one |
| interferential therapy.. | | | | thing to have the Doctor/ practitioner demonstrate, |
| This useful product type is the brainchild of many | | | | assuming the practitioner knows the correct |
| years of work to bring the most used form of | | | | procedure, but now with the advent of internet |
| electrotherapy out of the clinic and to the patient at | | | | learning anyone can be taught. The use of video has |
| home or work. In lieu of paying $35 to $100 per 12 - | | | | changed the instructional component of using medical |
| 20 minute treatment the patient can now buy one | | | | devices with outstanding results for patients. What |
| unit, use frequently self treating to stop pain or | | | | information not learned, or forgotten, can be |
| prevent the recurrence of pain. What interferential | | | | constantly watched in the videos or if necessary by |
| pain machines do is allow the patient to self treat | | | | text on web sites, blogs, Facebook Fan pages etc. |
| wherever necessary whether at home, work or | | | | No longer will a patient have to depend upon |
| when traveling. | | | | whether the practitioner really knows how to use a |
| The operation of scheduling a future Doctors visit to | | | | certain product but now the patient can be self |
| get an interferential treatment is basically a guessing | | | | taught and taught correctly on the specific device. |
| game as to when/if the pain will reoccur and when it | | | | Setup is easy with interferential units simply requiring |
| will happen. Often the treatment is not predicated | | | | turning on, simple adjustments to fit the pain of that |
| upon the pain patients' condition but upon the | | | | moment, and electrode placement. A video can move |
| availability of time in the future or upon the insurance | | | | the process step by step at anytime, any day for |
| company policy on allowances for office visits. Neither | | | | any patient that needs additional instruction and at no |
| of these approaches has ever been in the patients' | | | | additional cost. |
| best interest. | | | | The bottom line here is that interferential pain |
| With the advent of self treatment to prevent pain, | | | | machines have an excellent history loaded with 1000's |
| not treat pain, a new paradigm of treatment, pain | | | | of successes from chronic pain patents treated in |
| prevention, has emerged that is more cost effective | | | | clinics. A fast-growing new client list is emerging with |
| to the patient and insurance company. | | | | the advent of improved technology for self |
| Rather than a patient having to take off work, which | | | | treatment becoming available. If any patient is |
| costs money to the patient, and hope an | | | | actively in pain, it might be worthwhile taking a closer |
| appointment for a clinical treatment of interferential | | | | look at this new line of products for pain control and |
| will be done, the patient now takes a portable unit | | | | prevention, maybe even test one. That there are so |
| with them and can treat as needed. Over a one | | | | many happy clients over the last half century can |
| month time frame the cost per treatment can easily | | | | seldom be wrong... |
| drop to a few dollars per treatment and also prevent | | | | You will find all the details at Google search by simply |
| the recurrence of pain in many cases. The new | | | | typing in "interferential therapy", or "interferential |
| interferential therapy treatment is more cost | | | | video" on YouTube search and learning of the non |
| effective than the use of drug medications and does | | | | narcotic pain remedy of interferential pain machines |
| not require continuing usage. | | | | that are 100% safe and non addictive or harmful. |