One of the best things given to me when I was first injured was a TENS. Back then the electrodes were spongy and white! I didn't care, it made life bearable. My jaw was off it's hinges and the only thing that kept the pain at bay was the TENS. I still use it for jaw when I'm stressed and clenching and the muscles are spasming... etc etc

I also use it for my chronic myofascial pain throughout my body... sometimes it doesn't work as well as it could because I can't get the electrodes onto the right nerve points. Once I take it to my PT, and he places them in the right spots, it's wonderful again. I don't use it all the time, I should use it more often.

Sometimes when the neuropathy in my feet and ankles cause the spasming (like in the middle of the night) the only thing to stop the contracturing is the TENS! I thank God, literally, for my TENS unit.

TC