Electrostimulation - RehabMedic Pro Stim 2 Manual Del Usuario

PED6:
It is possible to set tHOLD and tOFF values.
From 1 to 30 s with steps of 1 s.
It is possible to set the frequency value.
From 1 to 150 Hz with steps of 1 Hz.
Pulse duration fixed at 300 µs.
Default values: tHOLD = 2 s; tOFF = 10 s; 30 Hz.
tUP and tDOWN cannot be changed and have a duration of 1s.
t t t t
up hold down off

ELECTROSTIMULATION

ELECTROSTIMULATION ADVANTAGES
The electro stimulation does not want to replace physical activity but it must be considered as an
integrating treatment.
According to the aims it will be useful:
- To the sportsmen/sportswomen, in order to integrate the normal training and to increase per-
formances.
- To who wants to intervene on some imperfections.
- To who suffers from some pathologies.
- To who has suffered from a trauma or in the rehabilitation.
The electro stimulation is a technique that provokes a muscular contraction completely similar to
the volunteer one, using electrical TENS impulse. There are two different ways of use:
- Muscular stimulation (ideal for the development of the force and for aesthetic treatments).
- The stimulation to nervous ends (ideal for the treatments against the pain).
TYPES OF MUSCLE
The muscle can be subdivided in three different types: streaked or voluntary muscle; cardiac
muscle and smooth or involuntary muscle.
The voluntary muscle includes the skeletal muscle that gives movement to the skeleton and the
cutaneous muscle that acts on facial expressions.
The cardiac muscle and the smooth muscle are not voluntarily controlled. The most part of the
muscles of the human body belongs to the category of streaked or voluntary muscles, with
approximately 200 muscles for every side of the body (approximately 400 in total).
Skeletal muscles are the target of the EMS.
MECHANISM OF THE MUSCULAR CONTRACTION
The skeletal muscle exercises its functions through the mechanism of the contraction.
When the muscular contraction happens, the movement of the articulations is produced and
consequently the movement of the skeleton, too.
The muscle contracted in the following way: when a person decides to make a movement, an
alteration of the electric potential in the motor center of the brain and an electric impulse is trans-
mitted to the muscle that has to move.
The electrical impulse is transmitted as a change of potential (voltage); an electrical impulse cros-
ses the motor nerve to the muscle that must be stimulated. After the reception of the impulse,
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