Pain-Relief from stress, from staring at computer screens, from heavy lifting and repetitive motion—is ever-present in too many lives, whether it’s in the form of knee pain, hip pain, back pain, or chronic headaches.
It may feel like you’re in a constant battle with it, tamping it down temporarily, only for it to seep back into your muscles, joints, and nerves.
Fortunately, there are a lot of tools available to help you win the war, and your flexible spending account (FSA) can help.
The FSA Store and the FSA section of Amazon take the guesswork out of what you can buy with your pre-tax FSA funds, only featuring FSA-eligible items.
Among the products featured are plenty of devices and gadgets aimed specifically at relieving pain—most of them drug-free.
And with the grace period for many 2019 plans coming up on March 15, 2020, now is the time to invest in some of the pain-relief devices you might not otherwise want to splurge on.
Here are 11 FSA-eligible products that can provide relief for your aches and pains.
1. BEST DEVICE FOR CHRONIC PAIN: CARING MILL WIRELESS TENS THERAPY UNIT.
If you’ve ever hit your thumb with a hammer and then immediately shoved it in your mouth, you’ve unwittingly tested what scientists call the Gate Control Theory of pain perception.
First proposed in the 1960s by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, the hypothesis argues that the nervous system can only carry so much information to the brain at once, and non-painful stimulus, like pressure or vibration, can block the body’s pain signals.
When you suck your throbbing thumb, the non-painful nerve stimulation essentially “shuts the gate” on those pain signals, preventing them from flowing through your central nervous system to your brain.
That’s the principle behind the transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) unit—a battery-powered, pulsing electrode device that you attach to whatever part of your body that’s experiencing pain.
Read the complete article at Mentalfloss.com
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