Acticare TSE in the News

Acticare is regularly featured in the press, the articles below are a few selected examples of how TSE has helped people with the following painful conditions: joint pain, migraine, back pain, neck pain, hip and nerve pain, sciatica.

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Condition:	Hypermobility
Title:	It's a Pain Being Double Jointed
Published:	Daily Mail 231208
Summary:	Ten year old Merrily suffered from painful joints due to hypermobility syndrome. Professor Rodney Grahame, a consultant rheumatologist at University College Hospital and Great Ormond Street comments: "TSE is very effective. Certain nerves carry pain exclusively - if you can occupy them with other signals they don't get a chance to register pain."
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Condition:	Migraine
Title:	I'm getting my life back
Published:	Daily Mirror 270508
Summary:	Ellie Beattle, 23, from Somerset, has suffered from excruciating migraine for years. Read how Acticare helped restore quality of life for Ellie.
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Condition:	Back Pain
Title:	Now I can switch off my agony
Published:	Daily Express 140206
Summary:	Eva Souterio, 39, had chronic back pain since giving birth to her first child 18 years ago. She tells how TSE treatments helped her to a recovery. Maria Martin of the back pain charity Backcare says: "Acticare was given the thumbs up by our testers. One of our help line volunteers has used it for some time and swears by it".
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Condition:	Neck Pain
Title:	A 250-volt shock cured my chronic neck pain
Published:	Daily Mail 260705
Summary:	Caroline Harrison, 40, suffered eight years of neck pain following a horse riding accident. She refused surgery, fearing side effects and tells how she uses Acticare to treat the pain, allowing her to resume a normal working life. Dr Herbert, pain practitioner comments: "Unlike drugs, which you can get used to, you need less and less of the machine to get the same effect [with continued use]."
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Condition:	Hip and Nerve Pain
Title:	Pain Controller
Published:	Full House 201207
Summary:	Janet Wilbrey, 60, from Hove was born with congenital hip disease and suffered from chronic nerve pain from childhood. In later life she broke her back which caused further problems. Janet says about Acticare: "I have been using my little 'ally against pain' for nearly three years ... I wouldn't be without it."
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Condition:	Sciatica
Title:	My 20-year backache
Published:	Chat 010606
Summary:	Maggie Daly, 62, suffered damage to her spine after a fall while gardening which resulted in a series of operations leaving her with a damaged sciatic nerve. After 20 years of a pain, Maggie started using Acticare and is now able to get back to her garden.
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Condition:	Various
Title:	One treatment, 3 ways
Published:	Woman's Own 010706
Summary:	Review of three people that have benefited from TSE. June Chaffey, 60, still a keen skier from Gloucester, works at the local NHS hospital, but needed a hip replacement. Because of her pain, June was lent a device by a consultant within her team. June says: "Because it was so good, I bought my own, and ... could even go on another skiing holiday before having my op."
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Soundbites

“ A one hour treatment can bring over 50 hours of relief from agony”

“ Impulses block the sensation of pain which has been carried along the peripheral nerves and unlike the TENS machine, the effect is prolonged ...”
“ Marked pain relief in a greater number of patients than could be accounted for by chance or any possible placebo effect.”

“...useful in treating pains in the neck, shoulder, foot, ankle, heel, joints and also migraine...can be used safely at home.”