EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation)
Information about EMS Units & TENS Machines
Quick Links:
What is EMS?
EMS or Electrical Muscle Stimulation is essentially an electronic machine with the capacity to contract your muscles via an electrical current passed through your muscle.
How Does EMS (Electric Muscle Stimulation) Help Strengthen Your Muscles?
Electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) may help you to facilitate the strengthening of weak muscles. There are several theories on how EMS may assist muscle strengthening.
One potential reason is that when you maximally contract a muscle, at best, only 30% of all your muscle fibres are in a state of contraction. The remaining 70% are dormant and awaiting recruitment when the contracting fibres fatigue. With EMS you can potentially electrically stimulate these resting muscle fibres to improve their strength.
Clinically, EMS appears to be more effective when the muscles are very weak and you have difficulty performing normal anti-gravity exercises.
Another reason that EMS potentially works is via an improvement in the speed of motor unit activation.
Explained simply, it takes approximately 10000 repetitions for your brain to learn how to quickly send a message to your muscles via the quickest nerve pathways. This contraction pattern becomes your "memory engram". The more frequent your muscle is recruited the better your body becomes at finding the quickest way to recruit that muscle. EMS can potentially provide you with repeated contractions to accelerate this learning process.
To achieve your best outcome, we recommend that you seek professional advice on how to best utilise your EMS machine from your local physiotherapist who specialises in EMS muscle retraining.
|
|
|
|
Digi10 Digital TENS Machine
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
