Muscle Stimulators
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Zapped! Does TENS work for pain?
Just as electrical stimulation can be shallow or deep, there’s also electrical nerve stimulation (ENS) or electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). The right electrode placement and settings will stimulate muscles more than nerves, forcing them to contract. And so EMS may be a useful trick for exercising muscles, useful either in rehabilitation or, perhaps, performance enhancement. EMS feels like doing light isometric muscle contraction exercises — that is, clenching muscles without moving joints.
Whereas ENS is primarily used to try to treat pain, EMS is mostly meant…
Resources
The History of EMS & TENS
EMS of Today, has evolved into an industry providing electronic stimulation for home use.
Electric Muscle Stimulation: Separating Fact from Fiction
The term Electric Muscle Stimulation or EMS needs some clarification, so I will attempt to dissect the facts, fiction and certain laws to prevent misleading advertising!
Electrical Muscle Stimulation: Five Reasons Why You Need to Adopt This Technology for Your Athletes Now
All training programs should integrate Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) to contract muscles forcefully. The best minds in sports performance all agree that EMS is a valuable tool, particularly at the highest levels of performance. However, professionals in all sports—particularly at upper levels—do not fully understand the applications and benefits of EMS technology.
Electrical stimulation: Opinions of sports medicine experts
Electrical stimulation is a modality/treatment often used in physical therapy and athletic training that serves multiple functions in order to get a patient or athlete back to their normal functional state or to athletics.
How To Use Electrical Muscle Stimulation to Enhance Performance, Build Power and VO2 Max
You have a limited amount of time to train, even if training is your job. To be efficient with the time you have, prioritize the muscle groups that are the prime movers for your sport.
The Truth about EMS
Most users never come near the level of contraction they need for best results, especially in clinical settings.
Zapped! Does TENS work for pain?
There’s some evidence that TENS helps pain, but it’s a bit sketchy. Superficial TENS is well-studied as these things go: there have been enough studies that there are several reviews of the studies. However, a lot of the reviews were inconclusive, because they’re reviewing a lot of weak data. Par for the course in musculoskeletal medicine, unfortunately: garbage in, garbage out.
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