Where did electro muscle stimulation (EMS) originate?
Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) is a technology that was first developed in the early 1970s for astronauts who needed a fast reshaping of muscles after returning from outer space. Since then, numerous research studies have been performed using EMS. Bruce Lee used EMS extensively to increase speed and hardness. The US Medical Advisory Committee has allowed the use of Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) systems by athletes since the 1972 Olympics.
Bodybuilders, professional athletes, physiotherapists, and sports doctors use Electro Muscle Stimulation systems to supplement their regular workout routines. Many doctors use Electro Muscle Stimulation units to rehabilitate muscles following injury and to ease patients’ chronic muscle spasms and pain. European beauty centers have been using Electro Muscle Stimulation for twenty five years, predictions are that EMS use in Canada and the United States is going to be the latest phenomenon.
There are three types of Electro Muscle Stimulation equipment: personal (low voltage or battery powered), professional (110/220v) and medical (stationary).
Personal equipment or portable Electro Muscle Stimulation devices stimulate already developed muscle bundles. It is a perfect solution for those who work out. Portable EMS devices run on low voltage current of AC/DC adapters or batteries. The low voltage is usually enough to keep muscles in a toned condition, but not enough to actually build new muscle.
Professional Electro Muscle Stimulation equipment performs anti-cellulite treatment, inch loss; lifts and body shaping by actually building new muscle mass. We recommend professional equipment only to certified technicians for use in beauty salons, spas, tanning salons or weight loss centers. Professional EMS appliances in those places generate sophisticated and powerful types of current designed exclusively for changing of body shapes, treatment of multiple beauty problems, and anti-aging.
Medical Electro Muscle Stimulation has always existed in hospitals, and some of you may have received EMS treatments in cases of nerve damage, pain, or post accident rehabilitation.
Electro Muscle Stimulation or EMS has many names: Resculpting, Miolifting, Firming, Toning, Electrolipolysis, Isomodeling, Electro Body Shaping, Electronic Muscular Stimulation, Power Muscle Stimulation, Electrolysis, Electro Balancing, Faradic Stimulation, Faradic Muscle Toning, Endermologie, and so forth. All these names are correct, because they are united under the same concept: the healing and strengthening influence of electro currents applied to a human body.
How does EMS work and what are the benefits?
Electro Muscle Stimulation is a very safe and simple procedure, in which micro currents are applied to the muscle fibers of a treated area, stimulating them and making them work. The stimulation creates huge energy demand in the muscles. To satisfy this demand, muscles utilize surrounding fats as the source of energy, burning them the same as they do during a regular workout.
Basically, Electro Muscle Stimulation is an extensive fitness therapy: fifteen minutes of electro muscular stimulation equals forty-eight hours of nonstop gym exercise. As a result of Electro Muscle Stimulation treatments, muscles and skin become tight. Besides firming muscles, which results in an incredible loss of inches, electro stimulation also increases metabolism, fluid circulation and oxygenation of a treated area, making it a very effective tool for anti-cellulite treatment.
The Medical Advisory Committee has allowed the use of Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) systems by athletes since the 1972 Olympics. Bodybuilders, professional athletes, physiotherapists, and sports doctors use Electro Muscle Stimulation systems to supplement their regular workout routines. Many doctors use Electro Muscle Stimulation units to rehabilitate muscles following injury and to ease patients chronic muscle spasms and pain.
Most athletic persons agree that it’s difficult to maintain a perfect and natural body shape. However, getting this perfect shape is much harder than keeping it. Electro Muscle Stimulation can rapidly do both: create a figure and support it.
Beauty industry professionals benefit when they use Electro Muscle Stimulation machines in spas, beauty salons, and weight loss centers. European beauty centers are using Electro Muscle Stimulation and have been for over twenty five years. And in Canada and the United States Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) will be the next new big thing.
While their prices are similar to those for massage or body-wrapping procedures, Electro Muscle Stimulation treatments bring better and longer-lasting results that are noticeable immediately, even after the first procedure (How about 1-4 inches reduction in belly after just one 20 min session!).
The results have been proven by twenty years of practice in European beauty centers, it's a natural and inexpensive way of achieving beauty without surgical intervention.