Although medical electrical stimulation devices are touted as having few side effects, cutaneous irritation, contact dermatitis, and burns have been noted. The following article describes a patient who incurred third-degree burns in an area treated with interferential currents.
Risks. Side effects. Costs. Summary. TMS targets the activity of nerve cells in your brain, which may help with depression. It could also help for OCD, anxiety, and PTSD. The procedure may also
NMES is the use of electrical current to produce contractions of paralyzed or paretic muscles. Lower motor neurons to target muscles must be intact for NMES to effectively produce muscle contractions; therefore, NMES is usually only applicable to patients whose paralysis or paresis is caused by upper motor neuron injury (e.g., stroke, spinal
Faradic Current. Faradic is an interrupted direct current that has a frequency of 50:100Hz with a pulse duration from 0.1-1MS. This frequency and duration cause contraction and relaxation in innervated (nerves intact) muscles. It does not work on muscles that are denervated muscle; to cause the same effect a short pulse duration would be required.
Electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerves can be used to activate motor or sensory fibers. Activating motor fibers or the muscles they innervate produces muscle contractions that can be used
Electrical stimulation has been extensively applied in post-stroke motor restoration, but its treatment mechanisms are not fully understood. Stimulation of neuromotor control system at multiple levels manipulates the corresponding neuronal circuits and results in neuroplasticity changes of stroke survivors. This rewires the lesioned brain and
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electrical muscle stimulation side effects
