Muscle Stimulator 3 LED

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

Electrical muscle stimulation, called E-stim, uses special devices to send electrical impulses through the skin to target nerves or muscles. Electrical muscle stimulation involves sending electrical impulses through the skin. This stimulation may help repair tissue and strengthen muscles. The electrical impulses mimic what occurs when someone contracts and releases a muscle naturally. Physical therapists and doctors use this technique to treat people with various diseases and injuries.

Benefits :-

As part of a physical therapy program, electrical muscle stimulation may help people deal with issues affecting the muscles, such as:

• weakness
• pain
• spasms

It may help in treating various conditions that affect muscle strength, such as:

• spinal cord injuries
• post surgery muscle weakness
• strokes
• muscle control issues

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

The primary purpose of e-stim therapy is to simulate what happens in the body when you voluntarily contract and release a muscle many times in a row. This process strengthens and repairs tissue, particularly muscles which have become shortened, weakened, or atrophied due to injury or disease. For example:

• If you’ve torn an Achilles tendon, the muscles in your calf and foot may become atrophied from wearing a boot to immobilize the ankle, or from changing your gait to favor the injured ankle.
• If you have a shoulder injury (e.g., a rotator cuff tear or impingement), resting, immobilizing, or favoring the shoulder may cause the muscles in and around that shoulder to weaken.
• If you have neuromuscular dysfunction or a neuromuscular disorder (such as muscular dystrophy), muscles throughout the body may weaken progressively; e-stim can help to slow this progression and improve motor control.

E-stim can also be used by athletes as a muscle conditioning or recovery tool. Some studies have indicated that e-stim can be targeted to create contractions in different types of muscle fibers, allowing athletes (with the guidance and help of professional sports therapists) to train injured or weakened muscles for particular functions and responses. For example, a long-distance runner might use e-stim therapy as a complementary technique to train muscle fibers to resist fatigue.

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

HOW EXACTLY DOES E-STIM WORK?

EMS therapy mimics the action potential that comes from the central nervous system. Action potential is what we call it when a neuron (cell in the nervous system) transmits information (electrical impulses) along an axon (the thread-like conduit leading away from the neuron body, toward other cells). When these impulses pass a threshold, the action potential is fired and something happens. In this case, that something is a muscle contraction. EMS therapy creates steady electric impulses that stimulate muscle contractions--many of them over a sustained therapy session. This repetitive contracting and relaxing of the muscle has the effect of:

• Increasing circulation (blood flow) to the affected tissue area, which helps in repair.
• improving strength by flexing and working weakened muscles.
• slowing the process of muscle atrophy by strengthening weakened or unused muscles.
• adapting (training or “educating”) muscle fibers to certain patterns of response (e.g., contracts the fibers that are responsible for force, which results in building strength).

Benefits of EMS include:-

• Decreasing pain
• Promote tissue healing
• Increase muscle strength
• Maintaining and regaining muscle activity

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

PHYSIOWELL 3 LED MINI MUSCLE STIMULATOR

Whether you’re recovering from an injury or stroke or dealing with the pain of fibromyalgia or another condition, you may benefit from a physical therapy procedure called electrical stimulation, or e-stim. E-stim sends mild electrical pulses through the skin to help stimulate injured muscles or manipulate nerves to reduce pain. E-stim may not be appropriate for everyone, but for many people this painless procedure is accelerating recovery and providing relief from painful or uncomfortable symptoms.

EMS : -

EMS uses a slightly stronger current than TENS to get muscles to contract. The unit’s electrodes (also placed on the skin near the affected muscles) cause rhythmic contractions. This can improve muscle strength if the user attempts to contract the muscle simultaneously.

Why E-Stim Is Used :-

Electrical stimulation is used for many reasons in physical therapy. It can be used to:

• Provide medication for inflammation
• Improve muscles that are weak or not functioning correctly
• Help decrease pain or spasms

If you are experiencing pain, spasms, inflammation, or muscle weakness, your physical therapist may use this treatment to help you.

Some of the medical conditions you can treat with e-stim include:

• Low back pain
• Post-surgical pain1
• Muscle weakness or poor motor control.