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The principle of electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) is quite straightforward. When one voluntarily contracts a muscle during everyday movement or while exercising, the brain sends a signal along a nerve to the motor point of a muscle. This signal, similar to a very weak electric current, is a message telling the muscle to contract. During an EMS session, electrodes in the form of conductive rubber pads are placed on the surface of the skin over the motor points of selected muscles. When a very weak electronic current is applied through the pads, the signal finds its way through the skin to the motor point and causes the muscle to contract, just as if it had received a signal from the nerve. In medicine, electronic muscle stimulation is used to prevent atrophy in paralyzed patients, to stimulate the diaphragm of patients unable to breathe due to injury or disease, to treat incontinence, scoliosis, and many other dysfunctions. It is also the same principle as that of the widely used cardiac pacemaker, and medical researchers are constantly investigating hundreds of additional applications of EMS principles. Among athletes, EMS is used to treat muscle injuries, and as an adjunct to their training and conditioning routines. In health salons, EMS units are used to exercise muscles. A muscle, which
has lost its conditioning from lack of exercise, can be re-educated through
muscle stimulation to resume its proper function of supporting the figure. More Information |
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