What kept coming up in the discussion forums was an electric muscle stimulation called the therastim.
Arp electrical muscle stimulation.
Electrical muscle stimulation ems has always been a little confusing to performance coaches and sports medicine professionals because the research is cloudy at best.
The arp treatment uses low voltage current to penetrate injured muscle tissue and break down existing scar tissue.
Arp stimulates the nervous system to help relax and elongate muscles promoting healing and less scar tissue.
In fact people were saying that the arp wave and the therastim were actually the same thing just packaged a little different.
Our electronic muscle stimulator duplicates the effects of regular exercise by sending electrical impulses to targeted muscle groups to contract and relax.
Unlike other tens devices that only treat pain through massage our ems device was designed to treat pain and build muscle with 8 different built in programs.
The accelerated recovery performance arp trainer is a high frequency electrical stimulation device that is used primarily in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries in athletes.
I began to search the arp wave on online strength and conditioning forums.
Electrical stimulation is greatly beneficial for injured muscles.
The electrical current used for stimulating athletes was called russian current or kots current and was soon also used by the athletes of other countries thus becoming a widespread sports.
What is the arpwave system.
In normal exercise the muscle contract at about 2 times per second.
Do they really work.
Many of the reasons behind the limitations of science are the ethical boundaries you need to navigate and the expectations you have with the results of those studies.
The arp wave is a neuromuscular stimulation that combined with exercises eliminates pain and increases range of motion.