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TENS: For Lease or Sale?

To the Editor:

In reference to the article by Michael Nolan in the November 1988 issue (pages 1694–1698), I strongly disagree with its statement that transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation units should not be sold, only leased. The article also supports the use of TENS exclusively in physical therapy facilities. This is definitely an excessively limited and costly way to give a patient pain relief. Also, leasing has potential for abuse because medical equipment companies can make excessive profits. They recoup their expenditures in three months or so and then go on to make much more than the unit is worth.

In acute care, for short periods of use, leasing may be acceptable. In chronic pain care, leasing is definitely an abuse. A TENS unit is meant to be worn and used as needed. The potential for harm with a TENS unit is so minute that this whole article is arguable....

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