Soccer Pro sports muscle stimulator

What is the Soccer Pro?

The Soccer Pro is a 4 channels electrotherapy device assembled specifically for footballers.

It can be used to avoid and treat problems that make a footballer's life difficult. These include recurrent injuries, pain, slow muscle regeneration, muscle fatigue, muscle stiffness, recovery of strength after injury, rehabilitation, etc.

It offers several types of electrotherapy treatments. These are suitable for different tasks from the outset, and within each type there are many treatment programs, which means there are hundreds of possible (!) uses.

• TENS: a pain relief treatment. It quickly relieves pain caused by muscle, tendon and ligament injuries, bruises, strains, kicks, and hematomas. Drug-free, so it is especially important because it avoids doping issues.
• EMS: muscle stimulation intended for treating muscles. Depending on the impulse settings, it can enhance muscle blood flow, promote capillarization, warm-up, relieve muscle stiffness, help regain muscle strength, increase muscle mass, etc.
• Iontophoresis: with the help of electrical current a medication can be delivered deep into a muscle or joint. This provides a stronger local effect, since most orally taken medication is broken down and little reaches the injured area.
• Microcurrent (MENS): pain relieving, but its main strength is in healing inflammatory processes. It is excellent for quickly eliminating the consequences of injuries.

Think of the Soccer Pro as a healing "toolbox." It is full of programs that help "repair" a malfunctioning, poorly performing body. For example, having 23 microcurrent programs is like having 23 different sizes of wrenches available for repairs. That is a very wide selection.

You cannot treat the whole body simultaneously with it. The device does not replace or substitute training—it is not meant for that at all! It is suitable for treating 1-2 larger joints or muscle groups at a time, so you can concentrate on resolving a localized problem.

As important as your sports shoes

Think of the Soccer Pro as a technical tool that helps your sport, just as important to a footballer as a good pair of boots. Imagine how you'd get on the pitch without shoes!?

The muscle stimulator does not directly "guide" the skin; rather, it helps you maintain and restore the health of your muscles and joints so you can enjoy your favorite sport for life.

Examine what problems you have. If you are affected by any of the following, you will find it very useful.

Typical injuries

Footballers—whether professionals or amateurs—regularly encounter numerous complaints that they can pick up during training and matches. These arise from the load during training or play. Since everyone's musculature and skeletal structure differ, the occurrence and intensity of complaints vary individually. I won't list every possible problem, just the most common ones.

• Muscle and ligament injuries. These mostly occur at the start of a match due to insufficient warm-up, or towards the end with already fatigued muscles. During a sudden turn, start or brace, muscle fibers or ligaments can partially or completely tear. A kick to a muscle causes a knot in the muscle, and reinjury is common at that spot.
• Achilles tendon and plantar fascia inflammation, heel spur, piriformis syndrome: these are mostly caused by overuse and neglecting regenerative exercises and treatments after training.
• Knee pains mostly indicate joint overload. Often this is caused by relative weakness of the thigh muscles (i.e., weakness relative to the high demands).
• Back pain: the many bracing and kicking movements place an extraordinary load on the gluteal and trunk muscles. These must properly support the body for bracing and swinging. If they are not strong enough, the movement's forces are transferred to the spine, the hip and knee joints, and the ankle. In other words, weak trunk muscles can cause not only back pain but also pain in the lower limb joints.
• The loss of strength following an injury is a natural process. If intense training is interrupted due to an injury, the body rapidly "dismantles" unused muscle mass and strength. After a minor injury, regaining strength and muscle mass can take months. If this recovery does not happen, the risk of reinjury increases.

Complaints can be prevented!

It is fortunate if the team has a specialist who can spot individual problems early with a keen eye and detect them in time. After that, the cause leading to the complaint is corrected with individualized training work.

Because if there isn't, it often happens that... a new player joins the team and immediately has to do the same work the others are used to. No one asks what he trained before. The strength coach prescribes double-leg hops to the top of the stands. The new guy never did that before and his knee hurts from the unusual load. Of course he says nothing so he won't be seen as weak. After a few days he already feels pain at rest, but he doesn't want to be left out of the team and continues through gritted teeth. After 10 days he collapses with a swollen knee and can't even step on it.

Nothing else happened than that he was made to perform repetitive and demanding movements with unprepared muscles.

This could be avoided if athletes followed individualized training plans that consider constitutional and muscular characteristics. For example, if the thigh muscles are not strong enough, strengthening them is the first step before subjecting them to hopping drills.

Soccer Pro "deployment areas"

The device can be deployed both in prevention and in treating already developed complaints. Ideally, if you know your knee often bothers you, you won't let inflammation develop from training, but will stabilize the joint by strengthening your thigh muscles. With well-supporting muscles, knee pain does not develop.

Let's look at some important treatment possibilities. Again, this is just a sample from the many options.

Warm-up

It is especially common among amateurs that they drop in from work or family dinner straight to the hall. The match starts with no meaningful warm-up, where of course they don't spare themselves or their teammates.

Unwarmed muscles are still stiff. "They don't understand how they suddenly found themselves in the middle of a fierce match." On the first run or shot you may pull a muscle accompanied by a crack.

Tendons have even worse blood flow than muscles, so they need more time to warm up. Because you don't do this, tiny tears occur in ligaments and especially at the points where they attach to bone. This leads to overload inflammation, which is painful and prevents correct execution of movements, thus disrupting training.

A 10–20 minute muscle stimulation before training increases blood flow in the muscle and its associated tendons by 3–8 times. It warms and makes the muscle and tendon more flexible, preparing them for high force exertion.

With proper warm-up you can significantly reduce the chance of injuries such as Achilles tendon and plantar fascia inflammation, piriformis syndrome, heel spur, etc.

Speeding up muscle regeneration

After the age of 30 your body doesn't regenerate the way it used to. If you train regularly, you know that after a match it's hard to get out of bed the next day. This and that aches, feels tight, or strains.

You know that during movement the muscle itself produces the energy needed for its function, but metabolites are produced in the process. Over time, the accumulation of these causes muscle fatigue, stiffness, and even pain — the longer they stay in the muscle, the worse it is.

Most metabolites are broken down in the liver, so the sooner they get there, the sooner muscle stiffness and fatigue will ease.

The problem is that metabolites cause dilation of the skin's small vessels, which after training slows blood flow and doesn’t allow them to leave.

A series of studies shows that muscle stimulation can increase blood flow to the treated area by up to 300%. This significantly speeds up the pumping out and washing away of waste products from the muscle.

Therefore it reduces the amount of metabolites and, through this, muscle fatigue and stiffness more effectively than any other cool-down method. It's best if you treat within 90 minutes after training.

Increased circulation not only helps clearance but also aids replenishment of muscle stores. A muscle treated in this way will be considerably fresher and more rested for the next session, allowing a more effective workload.

By improving muscle regeneration you reduce stiffness and tension, thereby lowering the risk of strains, sprains, and tears during subsequent activity.

If you haven't used a stimulator yet, start with muscle regeneration treatments! The effect is immediately noticeable.

Developing "lagging" muscles

If your back, knee, or hip hurts by the end of training, there is a high suspicion that your trunk, thigh, and gluteal muscles are not strong enough.

These muscles stabilize the muscles they surround. If they are weak in absolute or relative terms, pain appears.

Strengthening them is possible with weight training. However, if you expose your aching back or knee to heavy loads, you will worsen the problem.

This is where the muscle stimulator comes in, allowing you to strengthen a muscle or muscle group without placing any load on the joint. With impulses in the appropriate frequency range you can induce contractions without heavy weights.

With a stimulator you can therefore strengthen the muscle enough within a few weeks to begin conventional strengthening.

Avoiding relapse

You've probably been in a situation where you suffered an injury during preparation that made training impossible for weeks.

You may have experienced that strength gains achieved over months can disappear in 2–3 weeks. Then it takes months again, and often the whole season is not enough to catch up.

In such cases use the Soccer Pro!

Although you cannot load the joint and therefore cannot perform movement, stimulation can maintain the condition of your muscles! The stimulator creates muscle contractions without moving or loading the joint. Your muscles will not waste away even though you are not moving.

For top-level athletes the following may be especially interesting. For someone training twice a day, a distant competition can be a problem. During a 30+ hour flight the muscles stiffen and at this level even a two-day break shows. For them a muscle stimulator is an invaluable asset. It fits in a pocket, can be used on the plane, and fully maintains the most important muscles. Upon arrival, there will be no trace of muscle fatigue or performance drop.

Healing muscle injuries

Muscle stimulation originally began as a medical, hospital treatment used to restore diseased muscles. In the case of sports injuries it is important for you to return to training as soon as possible.

Muscle stimulation does not move the joint, so you can start muscle-preserving treatments on every tendon, ligament, joint capsule, and cartilage from the day after the injury!

After a muscle injury you need to wait a few days for the bleeding to stop. But you can already use it 2–3 days after the injury.

It increases blood and lymph circulation, which brings the nutrients necessary for healing to the injured area. This speeds up the restoration of muscle fibers.

Footballer and Soccer Pro

Whether you're a professional footballer or just regularly play with friends, first check if any of the issues mentioned above affect you.

If so, I recommend using the Soccer Pro muscle stimulation device, because it helps with things you cannot achieve otherwise.