Due to "transient" inactivity (for example, lack of movement caused by injury or surgery), "unused" muscles lose mass and strength extremely quickly. Even a few days off can be a serious loss, but if the enforced rest lasts several weeks, the decline in muscle performance is very significant.
This poses a major problem for athletes, since a minor injury can cost them, in a matter of days, the muscles they have "built up" and strengthened over months of hard training.
Muscle Mass Recovery with Electrical Muscle Stimulation
Start as early as possible!
You can begin maintenance treatment of the uninjured muscles immediately after injury or surgery. For example, if your left leg is injured, you can immediately start stimulating to maintain the muscle mass and strength of your right leg.
Muscle Mass Recovery Stimulation
Often you can start strengthening the muscles with stimulation even before beginning physical therapy. For example, after a knee ligament surgery, moving or loading the knee joint is prohibited for days. During this time, the thigh and calf muscles rapidly deteriorate.
However, you can already apply muscle stimulation at this stage. The treatment does not cause any movement in the joint and therefore does not stress it.
The physiological effect of stimulation is identical to training – it prevents muscle atrophy.
After wound healing and the rest period, start traditional physical therapy too! At this point, however, you won’t have to restore a wasted muscle mass but can begin again with preserved muscle tissue.
You can significantly shorten the recovery and rehabilitation time by starting electrical muscle stimulation early.
In this product category, we have gathered devices and equipment suitable for muscle mass recovery.
