Your Good Health: Pain often gets worse at start of physical therapy - Times Colonist

In the meantime, you could try a TENS unit to relieve the pain. A TENS unit — transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation — is a device placed on the skin that send stimulating electrical signals to the nerves.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease, along with scoliosis from childhood polio. A few weeks ago, I developed sciatica and started a course of physical therapy, but qu… [+3230 chars]

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