Painsomnia - the inability to sleep due to pain - can be an exhausting, repetitive experience for those who live with chronic pain. While the name may sound amusing, the condition is anything but. If you’ve spent nights lying awake trying to find the best way to sleep with back pain, you’re not alone. Research shows you actually have a quite a bit of company, and there are steps you can take to break up the pain/sleep duo.

Practitioners who care for patients with musculoskeletal pain know that shoulder injuries can present significant range-of-motion treatment challenges. Specifically, frozen shoulder often requires continuous physical therapy to “loosen” the joint.

Healthcare providers unfamiliar with the RS-4i® Plus may be interested to learn how this device can aid in treatment for patients suffering from frozen shoulder, as well as other painful shoulder conditions.

While the notion of PTSD has been with us for generations, it’s gained prominence as a national health concern over the past two decades. Symptoms can vary widely, and often include anxiety, depression and agitation. Studies also show that pain is commonly reported in people suffering from PTSD. The good news, though, is that there can be real, life-changing benefits to combating chronic pain. Learn this and more lifestyle tips for coping.

With neck pain affecting a significant portion of US adults – 1 in 7 civilians and 1 in 5 Veterans – it’s no wonder that cervical issues appear in many provider patient populations. If not part of your practitioner treatment plan today, cervical traction is a therapy worthy of consideration and can be optimized to the patient’s needs in clinic or at home.

Electrotherapy is a non-opioid alternative for long-lasting pain relief that patients can self-manage at home. There are three primary electrotherapy device options with varying degrees of risk. Spinal cord stimulator implants pose the highest risk and cost, while surface stimulation is non-invasive and the most cost-effective.

Treating shoulder pain at home with an RS-4i® Plus certainly has its advantages. Unlike physical therapy, massage or other treatments that require an appointment, this device offers prescription-strength therapy at home, whenever you need it.

Adding an RS-SG Shoulder Garment makes taking treatments at home even easier. Here are 3 ways this garment gives an extra advantage to tackling painful conditions, like rotator cuff injuries or frozen shoulder, with the RS-4i Plus.

Diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of diabetes, often leads to significant foot pain, impacting patients' mobility, quality of life and, particularly troubling, it’s a leading cause of amputation. Providers unfamiliar with prescription-strength electrotherapy devices, such as the RS-4i® Plus, may be interested to learn how Interferential Therapy (INF) and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) can help patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy, as well as other painful foot and lower leg conditions. 

There’s no shortage of conditions that cause chronic musculoskeletal pain. Several of the most common affect the upper and lower back, but pain patients know that these disorders can range from our necks to our feet.

Not surprisingly, there’s also no shortage of treatment options – including physical therapy, medications, surgery and more. But there’s no simple fix and, as opioids have shown, definitely no magic pill.

There is, however, one doctor-prescribed treatment that’s proving to be popular for a number of reasons: electrotherapy with the RS-4i Plus. Here are four painful chronic conditions that you may be surprised to learn have benefited from treatment with an RS-4i Plus.

Placing electrodes on your own back in just the right position for an RS-4i® Plus treatment without help can be challenging when you’re in pain. That is, unless you have one of RS Medical’s wearable, conductive garments.

The RS-LBG™ Low Back Garment and the RS-FBG™ Full Back Garment make setting up for a treatment much easier – meaning that you can get therapy independently, whenever you like. No second set of hands required.

Learn 3 reasons our wearable, conductive garments give an extra advantage to tackling back pain with the RS-4i Plus.