Muscle Stimulation

It is a known fact that nerves control muscles by transmission of neurological codes. This code or message, depending on the required type of muscular fibre, will be transmitted in varying frequency bands. The muscle begins to contract when it receives electrical stimulus, whether the impulse is generated by the brain or by electrical stimulation. The physiological method of neuromuscular stimulation require impulses, that are similar in condition to the naturally occurring nerve signals. Provided that the imitation of nature is as exact as possible, electrical stimulation may, if necessary, be applied over a long periods of time, without causing side effects.

Enhancement of physical capabilities by training or electrical stimulation can be related back to the fact, that the human body is able to adjust to a certain extent to changing environmental conditions.
If the stress to a muscle is increased beyond a threshold value, a corresponding adaptation process will ensue. The increase of muscular power is initially due to improved intro-muscular co-ordination, which means that for one movement more fibres will be activated simultaneously than before. Only in the second step will the muscular mass be increased.

Besides the strengthening of the muscles, is the furtherance of the muscular blood circulation an additional main aim of the electrical stimulation. A higher capillary density enable the improved blood circulation. Hence an increase supply of nutritive substances, especially oxygen, is made available and the aerobic metabolism especially benefits. Electrical stimulation not only allows an improvement of the supply, but also furthers the fast disposal of metabolic waste products like lactic acid, or carbon dioxide.

• RehaBravo - the new generation of muscle stimulation
  The device was developed according to latest findings with medical muscle stimulation as special target.
   
• MyoBravo - the universal talent
  The great program variety of this device makes medical muscle stimulation as possible as the use for the sports area or pain- and incontinence-therapy.