Electrical Muscle Stimulation is a physical therapeutic modality that uses electrical impulses to imitate the action of signals coming from nerves in the nervous system. Electrical stimulation can also block the pain receptors in the body from traveling from nerves to the brain in order to reduce the pain in the body. There are a variety of types of E-stim currents that could be used. Some of those include Interferential, Russian Stimulation, Pre-Mod, and Iontophoresis etc.

The purpose of E-stim therapy is to allow the muscles to recover and send signals to targeted muscles to make them contract and relax. When doing these repeated actions of muscle contraction and relaxation, it in turn improves blood flow, which will help repair the injured muscles.

Throughout the various cycles of E-stim treatment the muscles will improve their strength through repeated cycles of contraction and relaxation. E-stim will also improve the muscles response time to the body’s natural signals to relax and contract.