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---------- > Fra: Ken Lane <[log in to unmask]> > Til: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> > Emne: Cramping. > Dato: 24. marts 1997 05:48 > > I'm sitting at my computer attempting to write this letter and all my > muscles seem to be fighting against each other. This problem seems to be > getting worse as the months go by. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to go and > lie down until I'm relaxed. The parts that are affected the most are my > right arm and left foot. When it's at it's worst my arm bends up behind my > back and feels like it's going to break. If I attempt to walk around the > block for a bit of exercise my left foot twists up so that I am walking on > the very edge of my foot. When that happens I have to sit down somewhere > until it relaxes. This sometimes means siting in the gutter which I find > quite embarrassing. If I try to keep walking it gets to a point when I start > to fall over and my foot and ankle feel that they are about to break. Can > anybody relate to this? I'm currently taking two 100/25 Sinemet tablets > before breakfast and lunch, one after tea and one at bedtime. > Ken Lane. (Age 47 - PD for 9 years) > Ken F Lane > 7 Cania Crescent > Petrie Queensland Phone:- 61 7 3285 7629 > Australia 4502 E-Mail:- [log in to unmask] Hello Ken, Don and all who are suffering from cramps and restless legs. I promised last week to give you a translation about a machine I and several other PWP are using in Denmark, it`s allso used by the Hospitals. This machine - ELPHA 2000 - is constructed and manufactured in Denmark. The machine contains both a muscle and pain stimulator. The size of the machine is like a Shawer and the price is Danish Kr. 4000,00 What is TNS?? TNS means Trancutan nerve stimulation which is treatment of pain and cramps without medicine anside effects. TNS is a method oftreatment based on electric stimulation of the nerves for the purpose of easing pain or to have the pain and cramps brought to an end. The idea is that after having located the pain or the cramps two electrodes are being placed so that when the electric power is passing from on to the other it necessarily has to pass the painful area.Through the stimulation obtained of pain which normally is transmitted through the nerve system where it is registrated as pain, will be blocked. The blocking is made by a theory (Gate Control, Melzack R,. Wall PD) which in common is called the theory of gate meaning that the ends of the nerves where they pass into the central nerve system may open and close a gate. By stimulating with TNS at a low frequency (about 2 Hz) but so powerful that in the area of stimulation viorous contractions of the muscles will arise, this effect will show after about 30 minutes of stimulation As previously mentioned the method is easy to use. It is cleanly and effective and after a short time of instruction the patient may treat themselves as needed which means when the pain or cramps arises. Regards from Sonia Nielsen