This tens machine is specially designed for all three stages of motherhood. This is not a product that you can hire; this has to be purchased due to the three uses of the machine. It can help you during pregnancy to ease back pain, during childbirth for drug free pain control and afterwards to help tone abdominal muscles back into their prior shape. It can also help with any back pain that may still exist after childbirth. Due to the fact that I was induced and didn't experience labour (I had to have an emergency caesarean section) I could not comment on how effective it was during childbirth personally. If you are using it for this purpose, ...  Read the complete review

I read about TENS machines in various pregnancy magazines and decided that I'd like to try one when I went into labour. I saw an advertisement for Boots saying that you can hire them. I went in to book one, paid my money (about £25 I think - and I got Boots points on it too!!) and went back 2 weeks before my due date to collect it. It was quite small and easy to use and when I gave it a trial run it felt like lots of small needles tapping my skin, not pleasant but not painful either. I wanted to have a fairly natural birth and thought TENS was a good option, as it's supposed to release the body's natural pain killers - endorphins. ...  Read the complete review

When I was pregnant with my son I decided I wanted to try and have as natural delivery as I could manage. It was my first pregnancy and I was realistic enough to know that I would not be able to cope with no pain relief at all. I therefore hired the mama-tens TENS machine from Mothercare at £29.99 for four weeks. Luckily they offered a free 2 week extension as I ended up being 16 days over due and needing to be induced. TENS stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and works by delivering small electrical pulses to the body via electrodes placed on the skin, that is thought to help ease pain. The electrodes are placed in two positions on the ...  Read the complete review

This review is about a TENS pain relief Unit though not the model as pictured. When the Dooyou team provide the correct link, I'll have it transferred over. A photo of the unit covered here can be found at www.lloydspharmacy.co.uk I'd always associated TENS with drug free pain relief in pregnancy and then I saw an advert on TV with Lloyds Pharmacy offering a TENS machine for £14.99. I was surprised to discover that it purports to give temporary pain relief for a host of other ailments such as back pain, sciatica, sports and muscle related injuries. Having suffered with shoulder pain following a car accident a few years ago, I thought I'd give ...  Read the complete review

About six years ago, I fell down a stairwell onto a concrete floor and damaged my spine permanently. I have had endless treatment, although I believe that over the years, back pain is one thing that never really goes away. I also believe that having suffered a serious injury to the back, the problems of age do exaggerate back problems, and over the past six years, this really has been proven to be true in my case. I have had many sessions of physiotherapy, chiropractice, acupuncture, and even resorted to different dietry aids, and the problem is still there, although when I was first told about the Tens Machine, I took a look at a friend of mine's machine and ...  Read the complete review