About 80 percent of Americans deal with back pain during their lifetimes. People in pain spend $50 billion a year on treatments to fix the problem. Now, a simple device uses electricity to ease the discomfort.

Bud Alvarez had such bad back pain he couldn't sit at his desk all day.

"It was really unbearable," said Alvarez. "It was terrible."

Nothing he tried worked. Then chiropractor Alan Shaf used a device called the Fenzian. It uses electric impulses to "talk" to the central nervous system.

"This is sort of like a reset button on a computer," said Alan Shaff, DC, chiropractor at Boca Delray Chiropractic and Holistic Care Center in Delray Beach, Florida.

The Fenzian emits electric currents. As it's rolled over the back, the device "sticks" on areas of low electrical resistance.

"It restores the electrical impulse and the connection of the nervous system throughout the body," said Shaff.

That helps promote healing.

"Faster recovery, reduction in muscle spasm, reducing in swelling and inflammation. I would say 50 percent faster than I ever saw before," said Shaff.

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