How TENS/EMS therapy can help with your warmup and recovery.

TENS/EMS devices can be extremely useful to warm up the muscles before any kind of exercise or activity. They can also be very useful afterwards for enhanced muscle recovery.

For a warmup, using TENS/EMS therapy helps with:

• Increased blood flow to the muscles

• Loosening muscle tension

• Increased flexibility

• Increased range of motion

• Increased oxygen intake

• More effective performance

Most importantly, a TENS/EMS warmup session greatly decreases the risk of injury during a workout. 

Recommendations for use:

Use your TENS/EMS device on the body part you are focusing on for 30 minute intervals maximum prior to exercise. 

It is best to use a low frequency program for warming up the muscles to slowly get them ready for more intense movements and actions. 

For recovery, using TENS/EMS therapy can also be very useful.

The main benefit TENS/EMS  is an uninterrupted increase of blood flow to the muscles as long as you are using it. Blood flow delivers nutrients to your damaged joints helping to repair the injury or stress to the joint. 

When we workout, our muscle tissues swell up with blood and lactic acid, and the blood flow that goes through our capillaries can be decreased and cut off. 

This makes the recovery from being sore a much longer process. 

By using TENS/EMS therapy on your muscles, it can open up these blood vessels and capillaries to let more blood flow through. 

This also releases the lactic acid stored in our muscles and tissues, which in turn enhances and speeds up the recovery process.

Plus it helps to draw out poisonous toxins that  cause inflammation. 

This is also true when recovering from surgeries or other injuries. Increasing the blood flow and releasing tense muscles in these areas speeds up the rate at which your body will heal and get back to a healthy state.  

Recommendations for use:

Use your TENS/EMS device on the body part you are wanting to recover for 30 minute intervals maximum after exercise. 

It is best to use a low frequency program for recovering the muscles to get the blood flow back into them and release tense muscles. 

Use as needed on and off until your muscles feel like they are ready to be worked out again!