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MENS uses include treatments for pain, [1] diabetic neuropathy, [2] age-related macular degeneration, wound healing, tendon repair, plantar fasciitis [3] and ruptured ligament recovery. Most microcurrent treatments concentrate on pain and/or speeding healing and recovery. [ 4 ]
Athlete recovering with four-channel, electrical muscle stimulation machine attached through self-adhesive pads to her hamstrings Electrical muscle stimulation can be used as a training, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] therapeutic , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] or cosmetic tool.
A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS or TNS) is a device that produces mild electric current to stimulate the nerves for therapeutic purposes.TENS, by definition, covers the complete range of transcutaneously applied currents used for nerve excitation, but the term is often used with a more restrictive intent, namely, to describe the kind of pulses produced by portable ...
Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment. [1] In medicine, the term electrotherapy can apply to a variety of treatments, including the use of electrical devices such as deep brain stimulators for neurological disease. [2] The term has also been applied specifically to the use of electric current to speed up wound ...
Veterinarians were the first health professionals to use PEMF therapy, usually to attempt to heal broken legs in racehorses. [6] In 2004, a pulsed electromagnetic field system was approved by the FDA as an adjunct to cervical fusion surgery in patients at high risk for non-fusion. [ 6 ]
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Two 2017 reviews had similar findings, with moderate level evidence at best. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Extracorporeal shockwave therapy is used as a second line measure to treat tennis elbow [ 9 ] , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] shoulder rotator cuff pain, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Achilles tendinitis , [ 14 ] [ 15 ] plantar fasciitis , [ 16 ] [ 17 ] and greater trochanteric pain syndrome.
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