STIM/TENS Therapy

EMS/e-stim is used as a physical therapy & fitness technique is a machine that works by transmitting electrical impulses through electrodes that are applied directly to your skin.

The electrodes can be applied directly to key muscle groups where electrical signals will then trigger contractions of the muscle for a variation of times dependant on the desired outcome. The process isn’t too different from the voluntary muscle contractions associated with strength training, by using e-stim/EMS to help build strength both pre & post surgery on the knee for example helps aids recovery, but can be used on many other areas too.

If you train regularly or play sport you may find you have a ‘weakness’ in a certain area or find it hard to ‘fire’ a particular muscle group, particularly if you are dominant on one side of the body like with golf or tennis. Then e-stim can be great to help re-educate or ‘recruit’ those areas again, if it is used in conjunction with some strength work & rehab it can make all the difference to your progress.

When using e-stim as part of a recovery routine, the machine sends signals to targeted muscles to make them contact, by causing repeated muscles contractions it helps to improve the blood flow and aids repair in the injured muscle.

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