Is it safe to use muscle stimulation after tibial plateau fracture where metal plating was used to support the fracture? I'm worried about burns. I have found some research that found minimal evidence for burns. I have managed to get some quad activation since partial weight bearing, but I have alot of muscle atrophy since the serious breaks and I gave up on using tens as a safe option weeks ago.
I have lost size of my quads and I have DJ D in both knees and when the pain becomes tremendous I will replace can I use your EMS program to maintain what muscle mass I have now to make TKR rehab easier?
Just search "evidence to support use of NMES (muscle stim) to prevent autogenic muscle inhibition". What you will find is there is a growing body of evidence to support its use as an adjunctive treatment but none of the articles are convincing and so its use is somewhat controversial. WIth that said, a lot of recognized experts in ACL rehab recommend using it for AMI (Kevin Wilk, Lynn Synder-Makler)
Probably something he's "heard" that it doesnt support muscle building. Except its not for muscle buildig but stimulation and regaining neurological stimulation.
really helpful video, I am 5 weeks after surgery and using EMS i would love to use your method but you didnt note down the settings, would it be possible to add them please?
Listened back and got the following: Mode - Synchronous Ramp - 2s On - 12s Off - 50s (3 sec manual quad holds repeated) Rate - 75hz Width - 400 (mine only goes to 300) Time - 15mins
