Back Pain Juneau - EMS or likewise known as Electrical Muscle Stimulation is a treatment for injuries by sending electrical pulse utilizing the square form to the muscle needing treatment. The square waveform could stimulate the muscles giving them exercise without any physical activity. Made by John Faraday in 1831, the square waveform works directly on muscle motor neurons. EMS is internationally accepted and proven to be effective at treating muscular injuries.
Electrical Muscle Stimulation units send comfortable electronic impulses through the skin's surface to the nerves requiring treatment. EMS is used by hospitals and sports clinics in the treatment of muscular injuries and of paralysis, among other conditions.
Most problems that need muscle stimulation could be treated by EMS consisting of:
- muscle spasticity after a stroke
- long-term disuse after prolonged bed rest or fracture
- progressive strengthening to treat muscle and joint injury
- shoulder subluxation and lessening of muscle spasms
- immobilized limbs
- atrophy prevention
- stress incontinence
- weak muscles
- enhancing muscle tone following weight loss or child birth
- therapy following joint replacement
- In situations where an individual's range of motion is reduced because of fractures, resulting in immobilization, surgery, or arthroscopy, EMS is helpful.
Treatments utilizing EMS has various benefits consisting of relaxing muscle spasms, preventing the slow down of atrophy from disuse by stimulating the nerves. It re-educates paralyzed muscles and increases local blood flow, enhancing muscle tone. Patients who are confined to bed can receive EMS treatment to create involuntary muscle contractions, which enhances muscle tone passively. If utilized at once after surgery, EMS could stimulate calf muscles to be able to avoid venous thrombosis. And EMS could help to increase or maintain range of motion.
The miniaturized EMS Muscle Stimulator which is simple to use. This lightweight unit transfers the pulses thought the skin to stimulate the nerves and muscles, the motor units of the body. The EMS impulses are "ramped" so that they imitate normal muscle contractions.
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