What Is an EMS Muscle Stimulator?
What Is an EMS Muscle Stimulator?
Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) can improve muscle performance for people ranging from elite athletes to people recovering from neurological conditions causing muscle weakness or even complete paralysis. Understand what EMS is, how it works, and how it can help you reach your maximum potential!
How EMS Works
How EMS Works
Electrical muscle stimulators use small electrical pulses to activate the motor nerves that connect to your muscles. This causes the motor nerves to fire and contract the muscle. The stimulation is applied using adhesive electrodes placed on the skin over target muscles.
What’s the difference between TENS and EMS?
Both TENS and EMS apply electrical pulses to the body, but they operate on very different mechanisms and have very different intended uses.
TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) helps to manage pain by interfering with and inhibiting sensory nerves to reduce the perception of pain. EMS, on the other hand, activates motor nerves to facilitate muscle performance. In a nutshell, TENS inhibits sensory nerves while EMS excites motor nerves.
Why Use an EMS Muscle Stimulator?
Why Use an EMS Muscle Stimulator?
There are a multitude of benefits of using electrical muscle stimulation. A few of the uses of EMS are to:
- Improve and facilitate muscle performance
- Increase muscle strength
- Increase muscle size
- Re-educate muscles after a neurological or orthopedic injury
- Improve muscle recovery
- Enhance local blood flow
- Relax muscle spasms
MyoSpark: A Smarter EMS Muscle Stimulator
MyoSpark: A Smarter EMS Muscle Stimulator
The MyoSpark is the only EMS stimulator that uses intelligent sensors and algorithms to detect how your body is moving and control the stimulation to help you perform an exercise. With an innovative, wearable, app-controlled design, the MyoSpark lets you maximize your training no matter what your goals are.
The MyoSpark has the ability to control up to six stimulators at once, allowing you to perform complex functional movements or just focus on strengthening a single muscle.
Who Should Use EMS?
To maximize their potential, weekend warriors and elite athletes alike use EMS to improve their training and speed up their recovery. Combining EMS with your fitness routine can improve your results and take your game to the next level.
People with neurological conditions like stroke, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis use EMS to re-educate their muscles and regain muscle strength.
MyoSpark Fit
If you want to maximize your athletic performance, discover more about the MyoSpark Fit.
Myospark NR
If you have a neurological condition and want to maximize your health and function, discover more about the MyoSpark NR.