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Old 15-10-2007, 02:57 PM
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Re: Using Electrical Muscular Stimulation (EMS) for CVA patient

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Originally Posted by ramywhite View Post
But I don't get how the reverse could be possible. I mean physiologically what happened when you apply specific type of EMS on the spastic muscle to end with relaxation.
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This doesn't really work other than as a contract relax type treatment to get a hypertonic muscle to 'let go' sometimes by fatigue sometimes by trying to restore more normal joint and muscle receptor activity locally. Read more on proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PFN) on this one.
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