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== Main characteristics Characteristics ==
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MedGadget's conclusion is that "''We unfortunately failed to find significant pain relief after using this $250 device for a few weeks, but much more testing is needed before we can come to a definite conclusion.''"<ref name="hands on"/> However, MedGadget does not provide any specific data to support their claims about the disadvantages.
Besides another official presentation, many individual users share their experiences with the device on their blogs or Facebook posts, comments, ratings etc. Blog-contributors describe using Quell mostly as positive experience. People are not satisfied with are unincluded insurance, hardly avalailable available information, or expensive electrode which needs to be changed more than it is officially stated and other inconsistencies. For example user claims "...''the replacement electrodes cost $30 for 2 ($15 each) and each one is supposed to last 2 weeks, however, I used my first one for exactly 4 weeks before it stopped working as well.''"<ref>Comment placed by Gina McNabb, in: http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/7/22/wear-tear-care-the-quell-pain-relief-device, 12/8/2015</ref>
Individual user's manual- or testimony-like videos can be found as well. There the user confess no affiliation with the company: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHI7PSxXbSw Quell Wearable Pain Relief For Sciatica Review And Walkthrough, 7. 7. 2015]
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