TRAINING WITH

ELECTROSTIMULATION

ELECTROSTIMULATION: INTRODUCTION

• Training with electrostimulation is a technique

used for decades in the fields of rehabilitation

and training

• They have begun to increase the number of

studies that try to demonstrate the effects of it

in the human body

o However, nowadays are still limited number of these studies that

attempts to investigate this matter

• At present, many centers offer personal training

services using this technology

TRAINING WITH ELECTROSTIMULATION

• When is applied by means of electrodes, it can

directly contracting the muscles (muscular

electrostimulation)

• Or contracting indirectly by activating the

terminal branches of axons neural

(neuromuscular electrostimulation -EMS-)

WHOLE BODY ELECTROSTIMULATION

• Training with electrostimulation (WB-EMS) is

an innovate training technique currently is being

spread by a large number of centers

• It is a waistcoat with electrodes that allow

stimulate 14 to 18 body regions simultaneously

• At the same time, with the extension of this new

technique, they have also begun to increase the

number of studies that try to investigate the

effects of this new method

ELECTROSTIMULATION: RESEARCHS

• Most studies collected apply to a group of oldpeople at risk of diseases such as obesity orosteopenia

• Thus, in most of the studies, it was concludedthat the use of the WB-EMS producesimprovements in strength and muscle massin old people

• The vast majority of authors recommend thistechnique training for all people who can not ordo not want to practice conventional exercise

ELECTROSTIMULATION: LIMITATIONS

• Small number of studies of this matter, also the

methodology used in the same

• Need for more studies involving more sectors

of the population

o Most studies apply to sedentary old people

• Need for better specification of physical activity

programs applied (exercises, sets, reps…)

ELECTROSTIMULATION: CONCLUSIONS

• Few studies to discuss it or apply

electrostimulation through vests

• Application of programs to highly segregated

groups of the population

• It is not performed a nutritional monitoring of

people tested

• The control group performed the same type of

activity as the EMS group

• The vast majority of authors work with sedentary

people

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against Sarcopenia at Old Age: A Series of Studies and Review

2. W. KEMMLER (2013). Impact of whole-body electromyostimulationon body composition in elderly women at risk for sarcopenia: theTraining and ElectroStimulation Trial (TEST-III)

3. W. KEMMLER (2013). Whole-body electromyostimulation as ameans to impact muscle mass and abdominal body fat in lean,sedentary, older female adults: subanalysis of the TesT-III trial

4. A. HERRERO (2015). Posicionamiento de la National Strength andConditioning Association-Spain. Entrenamiento conelectroestimulación de cuerpo completo

5. S. STENGEL (2015). Whole-Body Electromyostimulation to FightOsteopenia in Elderly Females: The Randomized ControlledTraining and Electrostimulation Trial (TEST-III)