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INDICATIONS
Pain Management
- For adjunctive use in post traumatic pain syndromes
- For management and symptomatic relief of chronic (long term) pain
- As an adjunctive treatment in the management of post surgical pain problems
Muscle Stimulation
- Relaxation of muscle spasms
- Prevention or retardation of tissue atrophy
- Increasing blood circulation
- Muscle re-education
- Immediate post surgical stimulation of calf muscles to prevent phlebothrombosis
- Maintaining or increasing range of motion
- Stimulate peripheral nerves for the purpose of providing pain
relief
- Stimulate motor nerves for the purpose of muscle rehabilitation
EMS devices should only be used under medical supervision for
adjunctive treatment of medical diseases and conditions.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
- Thrombophlebitis
- Manifest thrombosis
- Cardiac demand pacemaker
- Acute danger of hemorrhage
- Disturbances in cardiac rhythm
- In tetany, caution should be exercised in dosing.
- Acute local inflammatory processes caused by bacterial or viral
infection (for example: furuncle phlegmon, herpes simplex, acute herpes
zoster)
- Do not stimulate over carotid sinus!
- Do not stimulate transcerebrally!
- Should not be used on cancer patients.
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