[Nick Newman]

Nick Newman on July 21, 2007 at 9:12 pm #13240

Hey,

i was at one of the high performance centres in England today and i saw a physio working with a few of our top athletes. He was putting to electric stimulation pads on various parts of their body and then they stretched that part of their body 2-3 times. this was repeated for abbs, quads, hamstrings, calfs. I overheard him say that this technique does for the muscle what 30-45 mins of stretching would normally do. He said that it gets the muscle back to ordinary length very fast.

He left before i could ask him more questions. Ive not heard of this, but he was saying its fantastic if your not a full time athlete, because i usually spent an hour a day in college just on recovery.

Can anyone tell me more about it? how much? what frequency? and how?

thanks.

[flight05]

flight05 on July 21, 2007 at 10:13 pm #65776

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1807507&dopt=Abstract

[Nick Newman]

Nick Newman on July 21, 2007 at 10:42 pm #65777

excellent thanks…i believe it works for sure…i just want to know how long you should do it, how many times etc…then im off to buy a stem machine…:)

[mortac8]

mortac8 on July 21, 2007 at 11:05 pm #65778

i'll be sure to tell my rabbit

[Carl Valle]

Carl Valle on July 22, 2007 at 1:42 am #65779

Mortac is a hater.

[mortac8]

mortac8 on July 22, 2007 at 2:53 am #65780

haha pretty much.  do you know how much shizzle I read in some random study every week?  carl, you hate on vibration platforms, i hate on ems assisted stretching 🙄  man, i'm beat just thinking about this.  i could go for a nice glass of super oxygenated water right about now.

[Nick Newman]

Nick Newman on July 22, 2007 at 3:20 am #65781

lol…yeah i getcha as well…but well, top athletes were doing it. lol. and if it saves time…and works then could be great for us all.

[barto]

barto on September 11, 2007 at 8:24 am #65782

lol…but well, top athletes were doing it. lol. and if it saves time…and works then could be great for us all.

I have witnessed the best athletes in the world doing some of the most stupid things you can imagine.  Please don't go along with a concept just because of someone else's judgment.  Use your own.

Specifically, I am very very very reluctant to advocate the use of ems unless it is absolutely necessary.  (And I know of no instance where it would be absolutely necessary.)  The reprecussions of ems at the neuro level are just too huge to risk it.