The Stimul8 4-Channel Electrotherapy Machine is a medical device that applies bioelectrical currents or impulses to help stimulate the users muscles and nerves. The current is passed through conductive electrode pads that stimulate the muscle or nerves, and help block pain from getting to the brain. It is also used to help enhance blood circulation, mend damaged tissues, and prevent muscle atrophy.
The Stimul8 Includes (2) sets of lead wires and a patient kill switch, interferential Stimulation Premodulated (2 Pole IFC), interferential Stimulation Traditional (4 Pole IFC), biphasic (TENS), neuromuscular Stimulation (NMS), Russian Stimulation therapy, high Volt Pulsed Current, microcurrent, and pre-loaded with RAAS Protocol - Rapid Agonist Antagonist Sequencing.
The Stimul8 comes equipped with a wide range of treatment options to ensure that patient treatment is effective and efficient. A menu-driven, color touch screen interface comes standard, and intuitively groups and displays clinical protocols to help guide clinicians step-by-step.
What electrotherapies does the Stimul8 4-Channel Electrotherapy Machine harness?
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) typically moderate the electrical pause intensity, width, and frequency to the body through the use of electrodes to stimulate the nerves, disrupting the pain signal transmission to the brain so the feeling of pain can be abated to help provide relief to chronic pain sufferers.
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) is similar to TENS in the way it utilizes electrical current to the body through the use of electrodes designed to stimulate the muscles, not the nerves. The electrical impulses will imitate the central nervous system to contract the muscles to help relax both acute and chronic muscle spasms, re-educate muscle, and bring back muscle memory, as well as help ablate pain.
Interferential Electrotherapy (IF) is named for the action of the currents used as it employs two or more currents with one current located at a fixed, higher frequency and the other at a lower varying frequency. The two currents delivered to the body's tissues at their point of intersection between the electrodes will deliver an increased dosage of therapy that is more efficiently tolerated by the body. While working similarly to TENS, it is more complex and offers even greater efficiency at relieving symptomatic relief of acute, chronic, and post-traumatic or post-surgical pain.
Russian stimulation is a form of high-frequency electrical wave stimulation that uses electricity to contract muscle tissue, helping to improve contraction of the weakened muscles after an injury or surgery as well as to help strengthen muscles, increase muscle size, improve muscular endurance, and accelerate muscle recovery.